When my extension was written about, the reviewers and commenters all mentioned the onerous task of editing every single contact in Google to reformat the addresses. I have just finished some tweaking that will allow you to synchronize postal addresses exactly the way you want them formatted. It will be Read more…
I have just released another alpha (testing) version of gContactSync with some bug fixes and a few new features. New Features Mail Lists in Thunderbird and Groups in Google Contacts are now synchronized. You can rename, add, or remove groups or add or remove the cards to and from them. Read more…
When I woke up this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see several e-mail messages about my extension. After seeing the web traffic for my website rise from a dozen or so visitors per day to nearly 500, I discovered that several sites have written about the extension even though Read more…
I received feedback from two users who use Google Apps for your Domain saying that they cannot authenticate. The reason for this is a mistake on my end that only allowed Google Accounts (ending in gmail.com). I believe I have fixed this, although I do not have a way to Read more…
I have finished adding support for synchronizing Thunderbird’s mail lists and Google’s contact groups in gContactSync. It can do everything one would expect, such as reflecting changes in the contacts contained within groups, add/remove groups, etc. except if you rename a mail list or contact group the complementary group or Read more…
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…
I have been looking for and fixing bugs, so I am almost ready to release my extension either late today or tomorrow if everything works out as planned. I’m going to be pretty busy today through Saturday, so I might not be able to respond to comments/bugs until then. Mozdev 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…
The extra attributes added by gContactSync (ThirdEmail, FourthEmail, (Google)TalkScreenName, YahooScreenName, MSNScreenName, ICQScreenName, JabberScreenName, OtherAddress, OtherNumber, HomeFaxNumber, and Groups) are now easily viewed and should be indistinguishable from regular attributes in the GUI, but the extra properties will not be copied/moved with the card unless you have the patch for 413260 Read more…
I recently decided to support Thunderbird 2 (specifically 2.0.0.14 and above), but only had basic sync support (only the original attributes were synced) until figuring out a few bugs today. As of now, the extension fully supports Thunderbird 2, 3, and 3 with the patch for Bug 413260 applied. The Read more…