MailBrowser Brings Xobni-Like Contact Management to Gmail

If you've ever used Outlook plug-in Xobni, you know that it's an awesome tool for managing e-mail attachments, learning more about your contacts, and so on.

Enter MailBrowser, a free browser plug-in that's like Xobni for Gmail. Specifically, it shows you information about each contact, integrates with Google Calendar for easy appointment scheduling, provides statics on your e-mail conversations, lets you tag contacts, lists all attachments for a given contact, and creates local, searchable copies of your attachments. And that's just for starters.

This five-minute video gives you a nice overview of the tool. The narration's a little rushed for some reason, but it's still watchable (and worth watching):

Cool, right? Based on what I've seen so far, MailBrowser is already shaping up to be the must-have Gmail accessory of 2010. I highly, highly recommend taking it for a test-drive.

The add-on is available for Windows and Mac systems, and it's compatible with Firefox 3.0 and later and Internet Explorer 7 and later. Chrome support is in the works.