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Looks like it has an <div id=":qq"> around it...

Problem solved.

Firefox + GreaseMonkey + http://blog.persistent.info/2005/12/greasemonkey-christmas.html

I believe there might even be a Firefox extension that does this..

You fool! There is nothing else worth talking about in the entire industry!

You might think people are obsessed.

snarfed found a bunch of greasemonkey scripts but he missed the important ones, which are at persistent.info. In particular, he'd probably be interested in:

http://persistent.info/archives/2006/03/21/gmail-m acros

and

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/gmail/hack-atta ck-become-a-gmail-master-161399.php

This post deals with my version of the macros script:

http://gr.ayre.st/~grayrest/greasemonkey/gmail/gma il-macros.user.js

* Filtering has a great UI, but it's horribly weak.
Agreed.

* There's no way to bounce an email. This should be pretty trivial to add.
dontcare

* If no email is selected, the Y key should archive the email under the cursor. This should be common sense.
This isn't part of the macros script, but it wouldn't be that hard to add. I don't usually archive one mail at a time, so this doesn't really bother me.

* You can't automatically create a filter based on an email. Why not?
Agreed. Even better, I'd appreciate mailing list support so that I could get rid of most of my tags.

* You can search, but you can't select messages based on headers, subject, or body text. Worse, if you have more messages than fit on the screen, you can't select any messages that aren't on the screen. If you ever get flooded with email, or with spam that escapes the spam filters, god help you.

Again, search is your friend. If you have my version of the macros script, 'mat' on the results repeatedly.

* Thank god there are keyboard shortcuts...but there aren't nearly enough! I don't mind using the mouse for one-time stuff, but if i have to use it often during my normal email routine, that's a deal breaker. Keyboard shortcuts for go to label, go to sent mail/drafts, and select all/none/unread would be necessary if I was ever to go back to Gmail.

go to label: g+label
go to sent: g+sent
go to drafts: g+drafts
select: m + (a all, n none, u unread, s starred, t unstarred)
apply label: l+label

* Marking messages as read is impossible with the keyboard

'r'

additionally, mark as unread

'v'

* Selecting a message doesn't automatically move the cursor to the next message. This is just plain silly.
Again, not there, but simple to add to the script. I don't usually mark one message at a time...

* The Y key is horribly inconsistent. If you're in the Inbox, it archives. If you're in a label, it removes the label. If you're in spam or trash, it moves to the Inbox! This is a bad case of modal input.

'e' always removes from inbox.

* Gmail might be smart about (not) displaying quoted text, but it can't handle composing with quoted text to save its life.

Agreed but I don't find it difficult to manually remove quoted text.

Use this nice greasemonkey script http://persistent.info/archives/2006/03/21/gmail-m acros (the patched version in the second response to the thread is best) to get the ability to go to any label, add labels, and mark multiple messages via the keyboard. It also gives a consistent keystroke for "Read and Archive". With the the mouse becomes entirely unnecessary. Gmail preview bubbles are also nice: http://persistent.info/archives/2005/08/20/gmail-p review-bubbles.

Use this nice greasemonkey script http://persistent.info/archives/2006/03/21/gmail-m acros (the patched version in the second response to the thread is best) to get the ability to go to any label, add labels, and mark multiple messages via the keyboard. It also gives a consistent keystroke for "Read and Archive". With the the mouse becomes entirely unnecessary. Gmail preview bubbles are also nice: http://persistent.info/archives/2005/08/20/gmail-p review-bubbles.

I also recommend that people start sharing their own user-defined stylesheets (like they've done with Gmail), so this site no longer looks like crap.

Like a CSS Zen Slashdot.