The lamest thing about GMail

The most annoying thing about Gmail is that you can save searches ... so lame. Of course someone out there felt my pain and wrote a user script to fix it. Another reason why Grease monkey is the coolest thing since sliced bread.

So go forth and save ye GMail searches

clipped from blog.persistent.info

Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail #

If you haven't already, install the excellent greasemonkey Firefox extension.

Open up this user script (in Firefox).

From the "Tools" menu, select "Install User Script.." and confirm all of the various prompts.

Go to your Gmail account (some refreshing may be necessary).

There should now be a "Searches" box on the left size, below the "Labels" and "Invite a friend" ones.

Clicking on a search executes the saved query. To refresh result counts, click on the refresh icon in the upper right corner.

Use the "Edit searches" link to customize your persistent searches.

As a bonus feature, all threads now have a "Toggle font" link which switches the message font to a fixed size one - great for reading source code.