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The new Gmail menu bar

Today Google released a new design for the menu bar on Gmail to a small percentage of users. It looks nice, but sadly it also had the effect of breaking Rapportive for those users who had been randomly selected by Google.

Fortunately, we soon figured out what had changed, and within a few hours we had Rapportive up and running in the new design. This is what it looks like:

Just one thing to note — you need to update your Rapportive browser extension to version 1.2. In Firefox, you'll need to go to Tools → Add-ons in the menu, click "Install updates" and restart Firefox. Chrome and Safari should get the update automatically in a few hours, and after you reload Gmail. If you just can't wait to get your Rapportive back, here's how you can update right away:

Posted over 2 years ago

10 responses

Scott Yates said
I was wondering!!

Thanks for jumping on this and fixing it! Now on to integrating gmail contacts, I hope.

Keep up the great work.

-Scott

Rahul Vohra upvoted this
Steve Campbell said
Seriously nice work on getting this corrected so quickly. It was really missed this morning when I logged into the gmail. Your fix worked perfectly and I'm back to seeing my emailers again.

Thanks!

Benjamin Stein said
Nice job with such a quick fix. When you have a moment, would you mind posting 1.2 to Userscripts.org for us Fluid users?

Thank you!

noel said
Thanks for the quick fix. I was shocked when I saw the new Gmail UI and didn't see the Rapportive sidebar anymore but you guys came through with a quick fix.

I heart Rapportive so much that I even wrote two stories about it on my site: http://goo.gl/k2xo2

Martin Kleppmann said
@Benjamin No problem, I've uploaded 1.2 to Userscripts.org.

@noel Thanks for your blog posts! Really delighted that you're enjoying Rapportive :)

Benjamin Stein said
You rock!
Jonathan Baldovino said
not working in chrome!

@jbaldovino

boojummert said
yes!!!!
Ahmed Younes said
thanks i was wondering