I ran into Bug 401496 while working on adding support for groups/mailing lists to my extension. Basically, it causes Thunderbird to crash sometimes if you delete an Address Book and do something (most noticeable with mailing lists) without restarting Thunderbird Read more…
I have slightly improved support for Groups. Instead of just showing the groups, you can now either remove a contact from groups that it is in (by deleting the groups in the Edit Card Dialog) and add a contact to 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 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 Read more…
After installing FreeBSD and its bootloader on my notebook I found myself unable to boot Vista: \Windows\System32\winload.exe The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt So, I booted from the CD and chose the 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 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 Read more…
I made a new, simple, extension for changing the default file type for saved e-mail messages after BuBB1eS asked about it in #maildev. You can change the type by going to the Preferences (Tools -> Add-ons -> Options under File 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, Read more…
As of 2 minutes ago, my extension now appears to work in Thunderbird 2 after some fun with nsIEnumerator and nsISupportsArray. The array documentation didn’t show the AppendElement method which, combined with [notxpcom] and [noscript] caused me a headache until Read more…