Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Gabu-kun on Sept. 14, 2011 ·

This is a solid extension I've been using for years and other than the occasional hiccup (usually due to back end Google changes) it has worked flawlessly.

With this last break I only lost connectivity to my regular Gmail accounts and not my hosted ones. I went through variations of all the manual fixes listed here (I'm not downloading XPI's from strangers) and could only get one half or the other working, but never both hosted and regular Gmail.

Finally, I scrutinized the instructions and compiled a list of what worked for me. It's about the same as the other fixes yet DOES NOT change the URL for the Hosted accounts. This was done on a Win7 64-bit machine running FF6.02. Here you go:

1. Browse to C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\A RANDOM CODE IS HERE.default\extensions\

2. Locate the file {582195F5-92E7-40a0-A127-DB71295901D7}.xpi, rename it to {582195F5-92E7-40a0-A127-DB71295901D7}.zip and extract the files to a temporary location.

3. Open the components folder, look for the file gmServiceGmail.js and use a text editor to modify this 1 line:

loginURL = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth";

should be changed to:

loginURL = "https://accounts.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth?service=mail";

4. Save the file, overwrite the existing gmServiceGmail.js

5. Open the file install.rdf with a text editor and change the line:

<em:maxVersion>4.0.*</em:maxVersion>

to

<em:maxVersion>6.0.*</em:maxVersion>

6. Save the file, overwrite the existing install.rdf.

7. Rezip all files you extracted in step 2 and name it {582195F5-92E7-40a0-A127-DB71295901D7}.xpi

8. Replace the old {582195F5-92E7-40a0-A127-DB71295901D7}.xpi for the 1 you just adjusted and restart FireFox