The reason that I use Mailplane and not Safari (or Chrome) to read my Gmail is that Mailplane is optimized for Gmail and has some nice features that I can’t get elsewhere, like multiple tabs with different mail accounts open simultaneously, selective quoting, bookmarks (and other features that have disappeared from Gmail over the years), and excellent support! A price I pay is that I can only use plugins that have been adapted to run with Mailplane, but I’m OK with that.
Cheers, Andy On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:43 PM, xavier paredes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > I think you over explained it because I perfectly understand how > installing a browser extension is al local thing and is run on the client > side; but thanks for your effort! > > So it sounds like MailPlane developers decide which extensions to allow > and once they do, they have to go under the hood and add code to support it. > > I wonder then, why not just allow us users to install any extensions we > want that are supported by Safari. I guess it would get messy and cause > many headaches for the developers. > > Thanks! > Xavier > > Thanks, > Xavier Paredes > Digital Media Specialist > Cell: 917-463-8350 <(917)%20463-8350> > Skype: x.paredes > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:34 PM, David Blank-Edelman < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jan 29, 2018, at 7:21 PM, xavier paredes <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> If you don’t support Chrome plugins how was I able to install boomerang >> for gmail then? Also, I find it odd that you would create a product for >> Gmail that doesn’t support Chrome. Both are Google products; you would >> think Chrome would be the best plugins to support. >> >> >> Let mer see if I can help, please excuse me if I am answering at too >> basic a level. I’m going to leave out a bunch of details in this reply. >> >> There are two components (roughly) to Gmail and its extensions like >> Boomerang. >> >> The first is the basic web service Google provides on their servers. >> Anyone with a browser can connect to their web server and view the Gmail >> service by browser to https://gmail.com. >> >> The second is an extension that is installed into a specific browser on >> your machine that augments and communicates with the web service Google >> provides. Boomerang is one such example. But like any other browser >> extension, installing that extension in one browser does not provide this >> functionality to any other browser (if you install a Chrome extension that >> changed the word “cloud” on web pages to “fluffy cloud", your Firefox >> browser doesn’t automatically start changing that word too because you >> haven’t installed a Firefox extension). >> >> When you install a browser extension, that is a local installation. Even >> if it is an extension that interacts with a web service. If you install a >> Chrome extension, nothing gets installed directly on Google’s servers (even >> though both Chrome and Gmail are Google products). >> >> Here’s probably the key piece of info you are missing: MailPlane (and >> apologies to Lars and the gang if it sounds like I’m diminishing your hard >> work) is just another browser with some nice functionality wrapped around >> it. Installing a Chrome extension like Boomerang on your machine does not >> install it in MailPlane any more than it installs it into Firefox on your >> machine at the same time. If you start up Firefox, Boomerang will not be >> present. >> >> Any extensions/additional services found in MailPlane have been manually >> installed into their custom browser environment (integrated and tested, >> etc) by the developers. At the current time, the developers do not provide >> functionality that lets users install their own extensions. (And even if >> they did, my suspicion is the the browser functionality for MailPlane is >> based on WebKit, the same engine used by Safari on your machine, so a >> Chrome extension wouldn’t be compatible). >> >> Does that make any more sense? >> >> — dNb >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to >> pic/mailplaneapp/GinOWw8JGT4/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mailplaneapp" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
