I use and love gmail. However, since i use email for customer support, I'm always doing a cross reference lookup via the search feature to see my past conversations with the person whose email I'm reading.
I'd love to have a right sidebar widget that shows me, for any email I choose to read, the list of previous conversations/emails with that person.
Is this possible? I'm using Chrome
Ideally, this sidebar would bump or replace the contextual ads that now display over there.
A sidebar widget would be nice, but short of that, there is a nice built-in feature for looking at past conversations with someone. When you're reading the email from them, hold the mouse over the contact's name and a small popup dialog will appear. In that, click "More" and a small menu will drop down. There's a button there that says "Recent Conversations." This should at least save you the time of having to go to the search bar and typing in their email address.
Not quite what you're looking for but this Greasemonkey script will bring up recent conversations by a specified user.
Mailbrowser also claims to have a browser addon that'll work with Firefox and IE (no Chrome yet, AFAIK) that is almost like Xobni for Outlook
It displays more info about the contact and has quick links in a sidebar.
