An annoyance with the Gmail Manager addon for Firefox recently surfaced which disallowed auto-login from the status bar tray. Some quirk of the latest Firefox version or a new method of authenticating Gmail logins “broke” the addon. For about a week or two, I’ve been prompted to type in my password every time I check my Gmail. The addon also would not report new messages either. However, a fix finally arrived in the form of Gmail Manager 0.5.7.5 available from the Mozilla addon site. Glad to have my Gmail Manager working properly again!