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) are allowed
• Much faster synchronization than 0.1
• Only US English (en-US) until I finish adding features and strings
• Customization of how addresses are synchronized
• Can synchronize just one group (My Contacts), all groups (including My Contacts, Family, Friends, & Coworkers), or all contacts and no groups
• A new fetch-only mode where Thunderbird only receives updates and never sends updates to or deletes contacts from Google.

Bugfixes & Enhancements since 0.1.x

Bugs in italics are new since 0.2.0b3

• Bug 20925 Log the preferences
• Bug 20907 onDrop needs to set dummy e-mails if the target is a mailing list
• Bug 20681 Handle expired tokens
• Bug 20655 Login dialogs should specify and validate an e-mail address
• Bug 20549 Add a hidden preference to disable dummy e-mail address
• Bug 20119 Improve the first login dialog
• Bug 20891 gContactSync ignores the name in the first login dialog
• Bug 20888 Change untyped phone number labels in the card view
• Bug 20833 Add a preference to disable the new phone number labels in abResultsTreeCols
  
• Bug 20865 Allow synchronizing only one group (My Contacts)
• Bug 20864 The group XML feed is displayed in the verbose log twice
• Bug 20771 Allow name parsing
• Bug 20779 Add a preference to disable auto-delete
• Bug 20853 Too much recursion when the log directory is deleted
• Bug 20852 Illegal rel value due to dummy e-mail address
• Bug 20658 Add version info to the log
• Bug 20739 Add links to the support forum & wiki in the menu
• Bug 20757 Allow read/fetch of Google Contacts only
• Bug 20546 – Search is broken in gContactSync 0.2
• Bug 20644 – Localize all strings in options.xul
• Bug 20656 – Error: gAddressBookBundle is undefined
• Bug 20527 – Avoid HTTP Request errors when the Address Book window is closed
• Bug 20509 – Add Seamonkey support
• Bug 20508 – Consider adding overlay.css to customizeToolbar.xul
• Bug 20487 – Add shortcut to preferences in the Address Book
• Bug 20486 – Improve Address Preferences
• Bug 20352 – Update gContactSync to use Contacts Data API 2
• Bug 20148 – Default groups dont appear in Thunderbird
• Bug 19786 – Support for Google’s ‘Most Contacted’ & ‘Suggested Contacts’

Feedback

I would love to hear your feedback, whether positive or negative (if polite ).  My new preferred method of feedback is through the forum, which will hopefully help me stop forgetting to reply to e-mail and let others add their opinions to feedback.  Please send logs with the error report form or via e-mail and do not put them on the forum.

I am working on updating the wiki with articles on how to use and troubleshoot gContactSync.

I will be adding some polls here and would appreciate any feedback.

Tutorials

Flash tutorials are coming soon…  I’ll write another blog post when they are ready.