gContactSync, Thunderbird, and more

gContactSync makes a backup before the first sync and every 7 days afterwards by default.  If possible you should use Gmail’s interface to restore contacts.  If this isn’t an option (something happened during the first sync, for example) you may Read more…

gContactSync version 3 will have a new, optional feature to ignore contacts without e-mail addresses to address the common complaint about contacts with “dummy” e-mail addresses (nobody…@nowhere.invalid).  This will be configurable in each synchronized address book, and will be off Read more…

Version 2.0.9 has been released with several new localizations courtesy of the translators below: Andreas Nowack – de Sebastian Zartner – de Bert Visser – nl markh van BabelZilla.org – nl devezas – pt-PT Peter Klofutar – sl-SI Mikael Hiort Read more…

Version 2.0.4 has been released.  It fixes the “Find All Groups” button in the New Account Wizard and Edit Accounts dialogs. I also fixed Twitter import on my website.  The API changed and now requires using SSL for OAuth.

Version 2.0.3 has been released with a fix for the expired token dialog not automatically being closed.  It should auto-update soon.  Thanks to gkresic on the forums and many others who sent me logs! Version 2.0.2 was skipped because addons.mozilla.org Read more…

I uploaded version 2.0.1 for review today.  It should fix the most common issues with version 2.0, mainly it switches over to using a special URI that instructs Google to change the document title instead of redirecting to localhost. Change Read more…

A few people have had trouble authenticating with version 2.0.  Google deprecated the old method called ClientLogin, so version 2 switched over to OAuth2, which is more secure since you don’t have to provide the application with your password. The Read more…