Gmail made some very minor changes to their website (they renamed their Html-classes). Unfortunately, it was enough to break Folders4Gmail.
Please install the latest version of Folders4Gmail to make it work again.
Version 1.41 also works better with right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic.
For those of you using Better Gmail 2, I emailed lifehacker.com about the update. So there should be an update for Better Gmail in a couple of days.
Sorry for the trouble. Unfortunately, userscripts are very vulnerable to such small website changes.
[Update March 5th, 2009]
The update for Better Gmail is available now
Please warn users to uninstall the old version of Folders4Gmail before installing the new version. I found both versions being run by GreaseMonkey which caused Firefox to churn up 100% CPU.
Have you found this problem persists for everyone? I have noticed it seems to depend on if they have used the multiple inbox labs….
You are right! The old version was not overridden
I shouldn’t have changed the namespace.
The problem is fixed now. Thanks a lot for finding it!
I want to reiterate what Jerry said about the older script version. Be sure that the old script is deleted from your hard drive – AND -make sure there is no residual code left behind within greasemonkey before you load the new script, otherwise it won’t work.
Oh, and one more thing. Thanks for the update, Arend. Good job. IMHO, this is the best Gmail script available.
What was the small change in the Gmail code? I have some custom GMail Greasemonkey scripts and they don’t work either. Would like to fix them as well.
@Heiner
What broke Folders4Gmail is that many of the html-classes (<div class=”…”>) in Gmail were renamed.
If you use Firebug or DomInspector it should be easy to find the new class names.
If there are updates, please post them as a separate post, so that we can pick it up on the RSS feed.
thanks.
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Love Folders4Gmail, but I (and many others) truly miss the lost functionality since the update to Gmail’s labels format. Can we expect a fix at all, or should we just accept the new official format for the time being?
Thanks for all you do.