Remember the Milk for GMail is Broken

This morning at work, I opened up Gmail and instead of seeing my tasks in the Remember the Milk sidebar, there was nothing. No sidebar at all. I did the quick obvious things like restarting Firefox, verifying the extension was enabled, and even reinstalling the extension. I didn’t think too much of it, and had a very busy day with work issues. I figured something with Firefox was borked and forgot about it.

When I came home, I had the same problem. Different PC, different OS. I noticed that the Tasks settings pane was gone from the Gmail options screen, and that the “hide spam count” Greasemonkey script was also not working.

Looking at this thread on the Remember the Milk Forums, I’m hypothesizing that Google has changed something with their Greasemonkey API which has broken the RTM extension. I hope the folks at Remember the Milk get an updated extension soon; their native web interface never fit my style, but the Gmail sidebar was perfect.

update 1/26: the folks at Remember the Milk have released an updated extension (1.0.1) which fixes the problem. In Firefox, go to Tools -> Add Ons and click “Find Updates” which should catch the new version.