I’ve been receiving many e-mails and 1 star reviews lately related to support for Thunderbird 60 and 68. As you may know, Firefox completely removed “legacy” add-on support and transitioned to WebExtensions. Once this support was gone, they started making changes that previously would’ve been incompatible with add-ons. Since Thunderbird Read 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 follow the steps below to restore your address book in 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 by default in existing synchronized address books for forward compatibility. 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 af Ornäs – sv-SE http://t.qq.com/HeartBlade – zh-CN Version 2.0.8 was 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 said the version already existed.
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 Details: Added validation to prevent duplicate login errors Updated authentication 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 most common causes are an application listening on port 80 Read more…
I recently released version 2.0.0 of gContactSync. This is a mandatory upgrade for all users since Google is discontinuing the authentication method that previous versions used. The first time you use version 2.0.0 or later you will have to reauthenticate each unique account you synchronize (once per e-mail address, not Read more…
I released version 2.0.0 beta 1 today to the beta channel. The major change in version 2.0 is switching to OAuth2 for authentication because Google deprecated the ClientLogin method that previous versions of gContactSync used (it will no longer be supported in April 2015). You can download it here. Just Read more…