I think that it’s about time for this post so here goes.

Brief history
GUtil! was born sometime in 2006 and I released the first version (GUtil! 0.4.9.5) on November 3rd 2006, for Firefox 1.5.

At first it was something that I used to speed up access to the Google tools that I was using so I only had a couple of links. Then somebody asked for it and also asked me to add some more things that he used. So I did. And I published it. And more people wanted it. That is all.

Current status
I haven’t touched the code since July 30, 2009.I’m not using it anymore. I have restricted my Google usage to Google apps, Picasa and Reader.I don’t care about anything else, nor do I have the time to care about anything else.

Some statistics:
- GUtil! has been downloaded 240,651 times
- GUtil! is part of 198 collections on AMO
- GUtil! has 8680 active daily users down from more than 12000

Future
Well, here comes the bad news.
I’m not updating it anymore. I don’t have the time, the patience or the interest to update GUtil! anymore.

If you want to work on it, it’s always been open so go get the source and have a whack!
http://code.google.com/p/gutil-firefox-extension/

All the best to whoever wants to continue with GUtil!

Okay, GUtil 2.1.9 is in the Mozilla sandbox so the update will be comming soon.
Some version notes:
* Added the posibility to swap mouse button actions (open in new tab – open in current tab, left click – right click). Middle click still opens in background tab.
* Added a chevron functionality to temporarly show all items, until an item is used.
* Added check all/uncheck all functionality to the options dialog. Use with care, you can loose your settings this way.

Happy Firefox browsing.

Théophile just packed up a new version of GUtil!, adding 3 more Google services to the list:
Google Experimental, Google Labs and Google Sets

You can get the plugin here, or read about it here.

Just packed up a new version of GUtil.
This update(2.1.6) has some minor changes, including the Orkut address change and the Personalized home name change to iGoogle.

You can get the new version here.
Don’t know what GUtil! is? Read about it here.