I worked on two new Thunderbird/Seamonkey add-ons over winter break. The names aren’t very creative, so let me know if you can think of a better name for either of them. Contact Photos This add-on displays the photo of the contact from whom the message was sent in the message Read more…
Google Contacts API Update Google announced a new version, 0.3, of their contacts data API yesterday. It adds a significant amount of flexibility, several new fields, and enhances existing fields. Some of the major changes include: Structured Postal Addresses – It is now possible to keep the structured address fields Read more…
Download You can find the download on addons.mozilla.org (recommended) or mozdev.org. Current Features All the features of 0.1 Synchronizes an address book in Thunderbird with contacts from a Google Account (Gmail) Customizable Groups in Gmail are synchronized with mailing lists in Thunderbird Duplicates (multiple contacts with the same e-mail address) Read more…
I finally added gContactSync 0.2.0 to addons.mozilla.org. I also placed it on BabelZilla so I should be able to add more locales (translations). Since it is new and hasn’t been reviewed yet, it is still listed as “Experimental”. Current Features All the features of 0.1 Synchronizes an address book in Read more…
I have released gContactSync 0.2.0b2r2, and you can download it here. The only changes are a few bug fixes, some logging improvements, support for Thunderbird 3.1a1pre, and a new link to the error reporting form in the gContactSync menu. I recommend upgrading if possible, but if you already have 0.2.0b2r1 Read more…
Update: Someone else beat me to it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/53145 As the author of a synchronization extension for Thunderbird 2 and 3, I get a lot of questions about duplicate contacts. Duplicates are more common than ever with the explosive popularity of mobile devices. There is a fairly popular Duplicate Contact Manager Read more…
About gContactSync 0.2 takes advantage of Google’s updated and improved API for obtaining and modifying contacts. Duplicates are allowed which, combined with a rewrite of the synchronization code, provides a significantly faster synchronization process. The longest delay now seems to be receiving the contacts from Google. There may be some Read more…
Version 0.1.3 Basic Features Synchronizes contacts between Google Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird (2 or 3, including Thunderbird 3.0b1 and the trunk build [3.0b2pre] as it is today) Can synchronize several accounts with their own address books Adds attributes and “types” for phone numbers and screennames to Thunderbird Customizable with a Read more…
While working on my extension and reading discussions in #maildev, I noticed Bug 13595 – Add Birthday Fields to Address Book is still marked as NEW but has a high priority and a lot of votes in Bugzilla. With the datepicker XUL element now available and some knowledge of the Read more…
Contact Conversion Rewrite I finally finished rewriting the code to convert contacts as it was overly complicated and some code was duplicated a few times. Along the way I was greeted with an error message I’ve never seen: Error: XML descendants internal method called on incompatible Object The cause: I Read more…