Email Link with Gmail

ace214 · 09-12-2008

Someone has posted a bookmarklet to email links with your default mail program, but for those who use Gmail as webmail, this will work.

Make a new bookmark and make the name Email with Gmail or whatever you want, and the URL

Code:

javascript:document.location='https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&v...ment.location;

If you want a pop-up bookmarklet, use the following URL

Code:

javascript:window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&v...ument.location);return false;

That currently opens a new tab. I'm working on getting the pop-out effect that Gmail has.
Unfortunately, middle-clicking the first one does not work, because when it opens it in a new tab, it is reading the URL and title from that new tab instead of the original one you wanted to to link to. I may work on a solution to this in the future.

Oddly this makes the text box in Gmail not the width of the screen. I'm not sure why that is, but it works just fine- just looks a little funny. If anyone can offer any wisdom to this, I would appreciate it.

Charlie · 09-12-2008

Nice. I'll have to try this later.

chico · 09-12-2008

Hey, this works great! Thank you! ;D

bittercrash · 09-13-2008

Excellent! Been looking for that for the past week. Thanks a lot!

bittercrash · 09-13-2008

The bookmarklet gives me an error (Bad Request - Error 400) or only opens Gmail inbox in a new tab. Only on this site (Chromespot) it actually works. How very odd ???

kimsue · 09-13-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by bittercrash

The bookmarklet gives me an error (Bad Request - Error 400) or only opens Gmail inbox in a new tab. Only on this site (Chromespot) it actually works. How very odd ???

Same here.

kimsue · 09-13-2008

Try this

Code:

javascript:document.location='https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to= &=1&su='+document.title+'&body='+document.location;

new tab

Code:

javascript:window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to= &=1&su='+document.title+'&body='+document.location);return false;

I hope this works. I actually don't have a clue as to what I'm doing.

bittercrash · 09-14-2008

Yes! It works! Good job!

kimsue · 09-14-2008

Even better: This is gmailthis

Code:

javascript:popw='';Q='';x=document;y=window;if(x.selection) {Q=x.selection.createRange().text;} else if (y.getSelection) {Q=y.getSelection();} else if (x.getSelection) {Q=x.getSelection();}popw = y.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=c...1&to=&su=' + escape(document.title) + '&body=' + escape(Q) + escape('\n') + escape(location.href) + '&zx=RANDOMCRAP&shva=1&disablechatbrowsercheck=1&ui=1','gmailForm','scrollbars=yes,width=680,height=510,top=175,left=75,status=no,resizable=yes');if (!document.all) T = setTimeout('popw.focus()',50);void(0);

bittercrash · 09-15-2008

This last one opens a popup..... but tells me there's something wrong with my Gmail account (Temporary Error - 502), while I have no problem whatsoever with it.