Hey everyone. Today I'm going to show you a tutorial an HD hopefully on how to use offline Gmail. Now, you might have heard already for all the news articles that have been published that you can now view your Gmail inbox at anytime whether you’re online or offline.
So what I've done is opened up Mozilla Firefox here and we can already go straight to our Google email just by going to Google.com. Click on Gmail and signing in. Now, this is not by default of offline Gmail. This is just online Gmail obviously. So, in order to enable offline Gmail access, what we’re going to do is go to settings and we’re going to go to labs, the labs tab and we’re going to enable offline Gmail. It's going to have a little unplugged from internet kind of icon looking here and we hit enable.
Now, this will work by default in Google Chrome. However, if you are not using Google Chrome, you're going to need to use the following. If you have an internet browser for Mozilla Firefox and type in Firefox add-ons and click on the first link which will be addons.mozilla.org and this will take you to the Mozilla Firefox add-ons. You're going to type in and search Google gears which is what is necessary to install Google gears. So, currently it wasn’t on that side so I’ll just Google search Google gears and there we go. Gears.Google.com is actually where you’ll find it and it says it is installed.
If it is not installed, there will be a big install button here. Click on it, it will add it to your web browser and now, it says web applications interact with your desktop meaning I could put a Gmail icon on my desktop or even in my communication section of my RocketDock here.
So, it works with Firefox 1.5 and newer. I have to show a lot of people I'm using Firefox 3.0.6 right now. Also, it will work with only 32 bit Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 6 or higher. And it also works with Safari which is very sweet. So, once you're done with that and you go to your Gmail obviously, I’ll do it again, Gmail, you sign in. It will load. You go to settings and the labs tab and enable Gmail. At this point, when you go back to our inbox, this will be offline Gmail and you’ll have a little offline button here that shows that you're using the offline version of Google labs which is one labs feature enable that will be offline Gmail.
Now, you can access your Gmail inbox and even send messages not even connected to the internet. So, I hope this helps you guys. If you find this helpful or you want more, subscribe and I will respond to whatever I can come up with. So, thanks for watching. Peace!
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