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		dividuum on Dec 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Pain of Building a Gmail Chrome Extension Do you know the greasemonkey API gmail provides? Maybe it solves some of your problems: http://code.google.com/p/gmail-greasemonkey/wiki/GmailGrease... I just poked around: there seems to be a 2.0 API. In the web inspector console on any open gmail page: `> gmonkey.info("2.0") "The "gmonkey" module is not officially supported and is subject to change, we will support previous versions for at least 1-month. Use gmonkey.load(v, callback) to load in the full API where v is the version number of the API you want passed to calback. Latest set of the bindings is "2.0". kthxbye"`

nicholasreed on Dec 19, 2011 [–]

GmailGreasemonkey is definitely useful to any Gmail extension developer. Unfortunately there really isn't much discussion happening around updates and you end up running into little problems such as ready().

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