Haha, this is a very interesting trick that it can make you read Gmail in browsers in two panes. The left is the message list, and the right is the message body.
Normally, when you start to read Gmail in your browser, it looks like this:
It sometimes is very annoying as you lose the power to navigate from one mail to another mail directly. However, the following trick will help you out in FireFox:
- Download and install this extension: User Agent Switcher;
- In Firefox (after restarted), select Tool and you will see a new menu item saying Default User Agent;
- Create a new User Agent named to whatever you like;
- The User Agent of this newly created one must be set to Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10;
- Now switch to this new UA and go to your Gmail.
The UI of Gmail will look like this:
You may notice that the UA set above is actually simulating iPad. That\’s right! 2-pane Gmail reading is actually firstly implemented in iPad!
This article is sourced from Download.com. The original URI is: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20001675-248.html.
If you are using Safari or Chrome, you may want to take a look at the above URI as it tells you how to tweak your Safari and Chrome to read Gmail in two panes.
Enjoy!
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