Google Wave Add-On For Firefox

Google Wave is a new service by Google that is currently tested in a limited preview. Google Wave invites are in high demand as everyone and their mum are trying to get into the service that is said to “change the way we communicate”. Google Wave is basically a realtime communication platform, a mashup of email, instant messaging, chat rooms with project management features thrown into the mix. If you are already in you might find the following add-on for the Firefox web browser quite handy.

The Google Wave add-on for Firefox informs the user when new messages arrive for him. It works like any other notification add-on and tool available on the Internet these days. It starts by entering the account data of the Google Wave account in the add-on’s settings.

This is required to access the data of the account. It can – and certainly will – turn away security conscious users who do not want to part with their account data. Those who do will from then on be notified of new Google Wave messages in Firefox. The add-on places an icon in the Firefox status bar that is displaying the number of unread messages with the ability to hover over the icon to see previews of the messages.

The Google Wave add-on for Firefox is available at the Mozilla Firefox website. The add-on is compatible with Firefox 3.5.x only at the moment.

Update: Google has stopped the development of Google Wave, and the Firefox add-on has been pulled as a consequence.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Wednesday October 14, 2009 -
Tags:Firefox, firefox add-ons, Google, google wave, google wave add-on

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1. Ishan@ILoveFreeSoftware says:

   October 15, 2009 at 8:53 am

   This seems like a good add-on for Google Wave users. I haven’t got on the Google Wave band wagon as yet. I guess I should.

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2. EASY says:

   October 16, 2009 at 2:48 am

   Any Google Wave invite please

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3. EASY says:

   October 16, 2009 at 2:49 am

   invite here el_easy2000@yahoo com

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