Gmail Notifier - https access

Google have announced today that they will be turning https access to Gmail accounts on by default.

While this is great news, I can forsee problems with people who use Gmail Notifier. This is a small taskbar app that shows when you have unread emails in your Gmail account, very handy. It also acts on "mailto" links on the web, opening Gmail in your browser to compose a new email.

Now, this app does not work by default with accounts accessed over https, the app hasn't been updated since 21st March 2006. I am amazed that Google hasn't made a small tweak to it on announcing that they will be switching over to https!! Basically, it will not be able to check for new emails if using https

However, there is an easy registry change to fix the problem, which is provided by Google in their help pages.

1. Download this .zip file.

2. Unzip the contents.

3. Close Gmail Notifier if you have it running.

4. Run the "notifier_https.reg" from the unzipped folder.

5. Allow user account control popup in you are running Vista or Windows 7.

6. Click "Yes" on the Registry Editor window to make the change

If you ever want to turn of https, then you would have to make this change in your Gmail account and then run the other file, "notifier_https_undo.reg". But, I don't recommend you turn this off at all.

I haven't experience any problems with speed or compatibility with other apps while having https turned on, I think I had it turned on from the start.