Comments on: Google Calendar in Thunderbird tabs

By: NickF

NickF — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:29:22 +0000

Ryan,

There is no easy way to add a standalone version for tasks. I have been trying to debug why tasks don’t show up in the calendar extension. As a workaround you can use the GMail extension (that basically opens Gmail into a separate tab) and call tasks from there:

http://electronsoftware.altervista.org/extensions/

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:55:33 +0000

This add-on is great. How hard would it be to update it so that tasks can be edited as well as calendar from within Thunderbird?

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By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:53:17 +0000

This is a great extension, I love it. Previously I used the Google calendar provider for lightning, so many problems, especially with notifications and repeating events. This is so simple but so functional…

One request I have. Is it possible that the extension logs into the calendar if you have selected to remember your password. If not logged in, one might miss alerts. Thank you again

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:39:14 +0000

Firstly… I absolutely LOVE this add-on. Genius idea. Much easier than working with Lightning and Provider-for-G-C. However, I have come across what appears to be a bug. When adding a new event, if you type in a time in to the quick entry bar, it changes from an “all day” event, to a time specific event. This is normal. BUT… if you then go in to edit the event, and select “All Day Event” check-box, it will change the completion date to the previous day! Everything gets screwy after that. Changing the date back doesn’t work, and Google Calendar refuses to accept the entry. Deselecting and reselecting “all day event” too quickly also messes up the date/time entry boxes. I have checked with the normal web interface, and that is fine. Fingers crossed that you can replicate this, and fix.
Thanks in advance.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:55:02 +0000

After instaling Calendar the extensions tab in the add-ons
window says that ‘provider for google calendar 0.7 requires
additional items’.
There is a picture of a jigsaw piece with a red exclamation mark.
And the ‘option’ button is disabled.
What additional items do I need?

Simon

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:10:06 +0000

Thanks Colin! That totally works for me too!

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:54:21 +0000

After posting my last comment, I tried clicking on “Sign in as a different user” on the “verify” screen. Then, I just entered the same account info it had been asking me to verify and I was able to access my Google calendar. I’m not sure if this is a permanent solution or if it’ll work for others, but it’s worth a try.

My guess is that there was some type of cookie issue that was not resolved by uninstalling and reinstalling the add-on; however, clicking the “sign in as a different user” clears out the offending cookie. Clearing the cookies manually through Tools -> Options -> Security -> Web Content might also work. This is just a guess, though. The problem may have nothing to do with cookies.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:45:49 +0000

I’m also having the same problem as Paul and Kevin. It just cropped up after Thunderbird updated itself a day or two ago.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:37:26 +0000

I’m having the same issues as Paul just reported yesterday. Has anyone figured out a way around this yet?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:29:11 +0000

I have encountered a problem: when trying to opening the calendar tab, google calendar wants to verify access. After entering email and address, nothing happens and it message does not go away.
Meanwhile on firefox, google accounts are fine and happy with the password.
Any suggestions? I have removed and reinstalled the addon twice already without good results.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:41:05 +0000

Wow this is great and it only took me about 5 minutes to make my own. So now I more or less have auto speed dial in Thunderbird with one click. Thank you so much you are credit to team.

By: Aveesh Kumar

Aveesh Kumar — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:10:18 +0000

Hi,

I was very excited to try to have this work with TB 3.0.4 and google calendar in google apps for domains (it works fine with gmail). A hack as suggested by Ryan Paul is just not working for me. As soon as I put in the URI for my hosted app domain “http://www.google.com/calendar/mydomainname.com/” and try to start TB – either it hangs/doesnt show mail or the menu item Tools – Google Calendar disappears. I tried it with a new profile – same thing. I am editing googlecalendartab.jar file in chrome sub folder of extension. Could you please detail what I could be doing wrong or at least whatyou did to make it work…thanks

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:57:44 +0000

Does anyone know how to get the Google Reader favicon to show up on its tab? Cheers

By: Francesco

Francesco — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:56:47 +0000

This is really a great addon, thank you very much!

I have no problem logging in and modifying events, but I have the same problems that Josh B pointed out:
* Cannot click settings in calendar tab
* Cannot search calendar

If I can provide usefull informations to fix it, please contact me.

By: Roebie

Roebie — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:16:02 +0000

Everytime I reopen TB the Google Calendar tab is still open, but I have to login again. Is there a way to automate this?
I tried installing “Secure Login” (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4429) which would solve the problem, but it’s not compatible with TB 3.0.3

By: mlong

mlong — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:51:30 +0000

I’ve moved on to using the lightning plugin for thunderbird… which works great for displaying. It has a problem with dismissing reminders though – it always complains because the google calendar site dismisses it (or another thunderbird client if you use one at home and work), so when you go to dismiss it from thunderbird it just gives an error saying it couldn’t update.

Anyway, its an option

By: Josh B

Josh B — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:23:38 +0000

Great addon!

I’ve seen problems similar to what others have mentioned, specifically:
* Cannot click settings in calendar tab
* Cannot search calendar

By: NickNefarious

NickNefarious — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:30:40 +0000

Thanks for your help guys. for some reason lat night every time I clicked on the links, either left or right click, I ended up with a page of code which wasn’t working. This morning the links are downloading as.xpi file normally and everything is working fine.

Anything new on the Calendar Tasks problem (not showing up)?

How can I build the extension to include Google Notebook?

Cool extensions, great job so far. Keep it up.

Nutha Nick

By: NickF

NickF — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:41:27 +0000

Nicknefarious,

Right click on the link and save the file on your computer. In thunderbird, from the menu “tools”, select “Add-ons”. In the panel that opens, push the button “install” and select the file you saved on your computer. Follow the instructions. Enjoy.