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Hotmail Watcher Notifies Of New Hotmail Emails In Firefox

If you perform a search for notifiers on the Internet you usually find lots of notifiers for Google services such as Gmail but not so many for comparably popular services from other companies such as Microsoft or Yahoo.

Hotmail Watcher is a Firefox add-on that can notify the user whenever new email has arrived in a Hotmail account. The extension does not need to be configured with the Hotmail username or password as it takes the information directly from the cookie that Hotmail sets.

The user needs to be logged into the Hotmail website before the extension can start showing notifications of new emails in the email account.

The extension places an icon with a counter in the Firefox status bar upon installation. The counter will be updated as long as the user is logged into the Hotmail account. A left-click on the icon opens the Hotmail website and resets the counter, a right-click displays the add-on’s options and a middle click to check for new emails directly.

The extension is configured to check every 20 minutes for new emails. This can be changed to a timeframe between every 5 minutes and every 4 hours. It is furthermore possible to disable the automatic checks and check only on the user’s request.

Sound, display and blink alerts can be displayed to the user whenever new emails have been found in the Hotmail email account.

Hotmail Watcher is an experimental add-on for the Firefox web browser that can be downloaded from the Mozilla website.

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

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