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I've found the following bug in your Gmail POP3 Quick Checker and have created a new version of it.

The Inbox / Starred / Sent Mail pages on which the link 'Refresh POP3 Accounts' appears don't always have an URL like this: http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox, http://mail.google.com/mail/#starred, etc.

These URLs http://mail.google.com/mail/?zx=16wi4tqvnrvcu&s..., http://mail.google.com/mail/?zx=16wi4tqvnrvcu&s..., or http://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox or http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2#inbox are for example also possible, refreshing a POP3 account from a comparable URL fails.

It should automatically go to the Accounts & Information page and click the refresh links, but it loads GMail again and only navigates to the Gmail Settings > General page.

I have simplified the script too, a few things were done quite complicated... I have tested everything possible and everything still works.

It seems like it's faster now, I might be wrong though...

My version can be downloaded here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1861906/GmailQuickPo...
But you also can try Tim's version (there's not yet discovered a difference in how it works) -> navigate to the about page.

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Right click on the URL ( http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1861906/GmailQuickPo... ) > View User Script Source

I have been experiencing the bug where Gmail reloads and goes to the Settings page quite a bit. I am glad if it is fixed.

Well, you know more Javascript than I... I'm glad I've learned something :) ... Didn't know of top.location.hash ....

Although my script works the same way, yours is easier to read ...

Works great now! CPU usage is fixed too. Thanks, Tim! Great work!

One of the reasons why I use Gmail :)

I wanted to forward my previous Hotmail account to Gmail (for more than 30 days), hence I needed the Mail Fetcher.

Despite I really like Gmail, I nearly gave up (because the mail fetcher was slow ... and not easy to refresh) ...

After some searching I found this great tool.

That's not all: now I know Userscripts.org and Greasemonkey too :)

Hey! The scripts works perfectly. I got only one issue: everytime I open Firefox, it asks me to update to a new version of the script. How do I disable that? It doesn't happen to other scripts I have here in my Greasemonkey.

@gbonato:

I have created a version of Tim Smart's newest script, which doesn't update automatically;
(I removed one line)

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1861906/GmailQuickPo...

Is this the right solution?

not working for me, where is the button?

When I change gmail language to English I can see the link and it works, but when i have Gmail in Polish the "Refresh POP3 Accounts" doesn't show up.

Stopped working for me. I'm using Firefox and English for GMail.

How strange, if I refresh the page, the button shows up. However, for some reason, it doesn't show when I first load Gmail.

This version is multilingual (works in every language): - down for maintenance -

To test it I have navigated to every page with it in different languages...

(PS. I just removed one line in Tim's script: ".//div[contains(.,'Refresh') and")

That was an experiment and old version, I didn't have a lot of time to test this script ... Thanks for reporting that bug! Although I already encountered it and I was already experimenting with new ways to fix it :)

I'm still getting a quick flash of the Settings page when I refresh. Is this just my problem or is there a work around?

That's how the scripts works: it opens your settings page and clicks all the "Check mail now" (or whatever it in your language is) buttons.