gContactSync version 0.1.1 released

Version 0.1.1 of gContactSync is out and available for download here.  Right-click and hit Save Link As, then install it in Thunderbird. New Features: Greatly improved Preferences dialog (thanks to some help from Leszek(teo)Życzkowski) Bug 19960 – Add a preference to enable/disable the toolbar button An icon (again, thanks to Read more…

gContactSync available for download

The first–and possibly only–alpha version of my extension is available for download.  You can watch a flash tutorial on basic use and download it here.  Please watch the tutorial before using it or you might run into problems. Remember that it is an alpha version, so there might be bugs, Read more…

Synchronizing Addresses

Introduction Thunderbird stores addresses using 6 fields:  2 lines for the address, the city, the state, the zip code, and the country.  Google stores addresses in one field (supports multiple lines).  Since these two differ so greatly, it is difficult to synchronize addresses properly. Possible Solution(s): Splitting the address with Read more…

An overview of my extension

The extension that I am working on for GSoC synchronizes an Address Book in Mozilla Thunderbird with Google Contacts. This is going to be a quick overview of how it works so far. This post assumes some basic knowledge of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Thunderbird, and programming. Basically, my Read more…