Monitor Google Wave Inside Thunderbird 3

If you use Google Wave and Mozilla’s excellent Thunderbird 3 email client there’s a really neat hack to enable you to run Wave as a tab within Thunderbird and it doesn’t even evolve messing about with the deepest inner workings! Thanks to Lifehacker for the heads up.

Among Thunderbird 3′s new features is Content Tabs, a  really easy way to monitor web sites and web-based messaging from inside Thunderbird. The Quetzalcoatal blog hacked together a little code that opens Wave  inside one of these tabs, and even keeps it open after you restart Thunderbird.

To load it up, head to the Tools menu, select Error Console, and enter the code below exactly:

Components.classes['@Mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1'].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator).getMostRecentWindow("mail:3pane").document.getElementById("tabmail").openTab("contentTab", {contentPage: "https://wave.google.com/wave/?nouacheck"});

Hit the "Evaluate" button when you’re done, and you’ll see a new tab asking for your Wave login. Log in, click "Remember" to have Thunderbird remember your password, and now it’s just like having a little browser tab opened on Wave.

If you prefer to use web based emails Thunderbird is an excellent backup facility and bear in mind that Thunderbird picked up Gmail via IMAP when Google’s web-based servers failed recently.

Download Thunderbird at http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

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