With the latest version of Google's toolbar for Firefox and IE, you can set it to create new messages in GMail when you click an email address on a web page. But, confoundingly, it only works with Gmail — not the premium, $50-per-account-per-year Google Apps version of Gmail.

Fortunately the following blogs have instructions on how to hack the Toolbar very easily to point to your Google Apps account rather than Gmail.

Tokyo Genki Blog — Google Apps Gmail + Google Toolbar

RedPrimary — customise Google Toolbar for Google Apps Gmail (make sure you read the first comment posted as well — and follow the tip there.)

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Tags: Gmail, Google

One word: awesome. Thanks to Oli Zerdos for picking up on this.

I had two full Gmail accounts and I was always going back from my Google Apps account into gmail to search old emails. It'll be brilliant to have them all in one mailbox now.

• Google Apps Toolbar
• GMail's missed potential
• Goodbye Outlook: hello Google Calendar
• Death to Outlook and Exchange: two-way, over the air Google Calendar to Blackberry sync!
• Is Google getting us addicted?

Tags: Gmail, Google