Gmail Widget in Dashboard

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Gmail Widget in Dashboard

Hello Everyone,
I hope that I have this question posted in the correct forum...I have been using the Gmail Inbox Counter Widget in Dashboard for about 8 months now with no problems whatsoever. As of yesterday, it no longer works at all. I have tried deleting it and reinstalling with no success.
Anyone else use this widget? and if so are you having the same difficulty?
Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks for reading my post.
joe

White MacBook, 2.4ghz, 2GB RAM, 160 GB HD, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Dec 12, 2008 8:04 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 13, 2008 1:12 AM in response to K9Lover

Hey K9Lover,

Yeah, I've been having the same problem. I don't know what the problem is though.
My gmail also has been a bit slow. So I'm guessing it has to do with gmail itself.

We'll see what happens this next couple months.

daryl

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Answer 2

Dec 13, 2008 4:05 AM in response to K9Lover

Me too, it doesn't function anymore since yesterday 13th Dec.
Moreover, both Gmail Inbox and Google Gmail (official widget from Google) widgets are concerned by this problem, so it seems to come from Gmail itself.
When trying to log in, it effectively logs in, so it doesn't seem to be a connection problem: if you type a wrong password, it says that password and login don't match.

Meanwhile, I'm using Google Gmail Notifier: http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_mac.html

Hopefully will this problem be solved quickly...

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K9Lover Author

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Dec 13, 2008 9:27 AM in response to K9Lover

Thanks Daryl and Crepuscle for the kind replies.
Glad to know that it is not a software issue with dashboard or my computer.
I have marked both of your replies as helpful!!
All the best-
joe

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Answer 4

Dec 14, 2008 4:59 PM in response to K9Lover

Same problem. Thanks for the gmail notifier link.

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Answer 5

Dec 14, 2008 10:19 PM in response to sebasdola

I am also having the same problem. Hopefully it get fixed soon.

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madunk

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Dec 15, 2008 12:19 PM in response to xmarkzdasp0t

Ditto. Thought I was going mad when the gmail widget just quit working. Any news yet?

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Dec 15, 2008 9:53 PM in response to madunk

Me too. Both the official Google Gmail widget and the 3rd party Gmail checker. Still no go. The Gmail webmail integration in Flock 2 still works perfect. I don't know if it uses a different feed then the widgets. I know they had a similar outage a few years ago and it was on Google's end and it was related to the Atom feed the widget uses. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

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Dec 17, 2008 7:16 AM in response to K9Lover

I am having the same problem. I have tried to different GMail widgets nigher can access my GMail accounts any more. I have noticed my Firefox GMail manager plug-in still works though. So it appears to be something with either Google, or Dashboard. Of those two it is more likely that Google has made some change with the GMail login service.

There are people that are reporting that the Gmail widgets are working for them so it is not an across the board problem.

Of the people experiencing this do any of you NOT have the SSL only connection option selected in Gmail?

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xmascake

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Dec 17, 2008 1:04 PM in response to Brian Cook4

I don't have SSL only set up on my account, so I am not sure what is going on. I have noticed that generally my account has been having issues. I've been keeping iGoogle open as an alternative, but get "information not available" error messages there as well at least once or twice a day.

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paulz.it

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Dec 18, 2008 11:22 AM in response to K9Lover

Hi everybody,
same problem here 😟.
And I noticed one more thing about this issue: till some days ago, clicking on Gmail button, located on my Safari's bookmarks bar, I was able to automatically login into my Gmail account (no form filling needed, Safari remembers my account).
But now, everytime I use that button, Safari ask me to fill the login form. I suppose Gmail has some problems...
Sorry for my english. I'm waiting for a solution (like you! :D).

regards

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Jssekhon

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Dec 18, 2008 8:57 PM in response to K9Lover

I think it may have something to do with the 10.5.6 leopard update. Anyone without the update having problems?

I noticed the problem after the update.

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Answer 12

Dec 18, 2008 9:31 PM in response to Jssekhon

I has nothing to do with the 10.5.6 update. I noticed it stopped connecting 1-2 weeks before the update. And it connects to the account server fine. I believe it has to do with the Atom feed used for delivering the mail updates.

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K9Lover Author

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Dec 19, 2008 10:49 AM in response to K9Lover

Hey all...
Thanks to everyone who has responded to my original post on this topic. All of you have been very helpful in your efforts to isolate this problem.
Today I once again went to the Widget link on the Apple homepage to try and reinstall the Gmail inbox counter widget into dashboard...But now the Widget is no longer even available there. It is gone from the Widget list. One can only wonder why it has been removed. Presumably because it no longer functions correctly?? or perhaps, as crepuscule has recommended...we must rely on the Google notifier.
Any input on the notifier might shed some light on this alternative.
Thanks everybody!!!
joe

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kurbis

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Dec 19, 2008 12:00 PM in response to K9Lover

K9Lover, you can still download it from Google at http://www.google.com/macwidgets/

There is a link to provide feedback on this page. I have reported this issue and included a link to this thread. It might help if others report this issue too.

I have grudgingly switched to the Notifier for now, but I miss the compose feature and searching that the widget provided. I know that the notifier has a compose option, but I want mailto links to still go through Mail.app since I like to keep my Gmail separate.

Anyway, if it's of any help, I am running 10.4.11 and am experiencing these same issues.

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K9Lover Author

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Dec 19, 2008 12:19 PM in response to K9Lover

Thanks much kurbis for your input and also the widget link.
I too used the link to the page which you provided to send a report to the Google team about this issue. Perhaps it may help.

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