Redirect to Old Version of Gmail

By Jake Kasprzak Last update Apr 28, 2008 — Installed 2,636 times.

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Jake Kasprzak Script's Author

I have also found that it no longer redirects to the older version of Gmail. I am currently looking into this and I expect to have an updated and working version of this script available shortly.

 
Craig Harding User

For some reason it does not redirect to the old version any more. It did at first when I first installed it but not as of a few days ago.

 
Jake Kasprzak Script's Author

I was aware of the workaround in which one can choose "English (UK)" as the display language when one wants to use the the older version of Gmail. However, when that is selected as the default language, the user is unable to easily switch to using the newer version. This script makes it so that the link to the newer version is still there for those who want it. This may be considered useful by those who want to easily switch back and forth from the older version to the newer one.

One reason one might want to be able to easily switch from one version to another is that there are Greasemonkey scripts that work with one version of Gmail, but not the other. Also, one may want to occasionally use the features that only the newer version of Gmail provides.

I have said before that this script may not be considered very useful. However, there are still reasons to use it.

 
Dink Scriptwright

if you select your language in Gmail to be English(UK)the default then it loads into the old Gmail automatically...never even tries to load the new UI,...then the script is not necessary.

 
Jake Kasprzak Script's Author

Thanks. I had those who wanted to use the scripts that worked with the older version in mind when I wrote this. But you probably found that out after reading the blog entry that I wrote about this script.

 
Dink Scriptwright

good one....at least i can still use all the old scripts with this one.

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