NOOO THEY BROKE IT

[tgies]

Google just decided Gmail wasn't retarded enough and made it more retarded.

If you are using Gmail Manager, it's broken now (or will be soon; they seem to be propagating the changes to handfuls of users at a time?) and happily reports that you have 0 messages, whatever the case may actually be.

Gmail Manager hasn't really been maintained since forever, so I don't know if it will be fixed properly, but in the meantime I figured out that you can do something to force Gmail to present the old interface to Gmail Manager's screen-scraper. I don't know if Google will break this.

You want to go to profile directory/extensions/{582195F5-92E7-40a0-A127-DB71295901D7}/components and apply the following diff to gmServiceGmail.js:

267c267
<     var search = (this._connectionPhase == 1 ? "" : "?search=inbox&view=tl&start=0&init=1")
---
>     var search = (this._connectionPhase == 1 ? "" : "?search=inbox&view=tl&start=0&init=1&ui=1")

...or, if you're STUPID, open the damn file in Notepad or whatever and replace var search = (this._connectionPhase == 1 ? "" : "?search=inbox&view=tl&start=0&init=1") with var search = (this._connectionPhase == 1 ? "" : "?search=inbox&view=tl&start=0&init=1&ui=1").

Gmail Manager is a retarded piece of crap and doesn't Gmail provide some kind of simple serialization of the inbox summary so that we can avoid having to do horrible screen-scraping like this. I could have sworn. Oh my god.

EDIT: IF YOU DO THIS WHILE FIREFOX IS RUNNING IT WILL BREAK AND I WILL LAUGH AT YOU. Especially don't try this with Mac OS X because some guy told me it I don't know it lost a file handle or something and it just all went to hell just don't try it okay have some common sense. Also, don't accidentally mess with the xpt file like my idiot friend did once, because it's some hacked-in thing where they wanted to make JavaScript strongly typed and I don't know but if you touch it Firefox will smash everything to bits in the time it takes you to figure out how to pronounce "sigsegv"