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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Today there was a request to sign into my google account.
Now the calendar has every entry duplicated. Is this my problem or has something changed at your end?
Its a problem on my end. I have a preliminary version 1.0.1 that fixes this, but until the quota issues are fixed I'd suggest downgrading to 0.32 or 0.25.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Wouldn't it be possible to integrate this into Lightning proper (as an opt-in option or something) rather than developing separately?
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.32).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
After Years of trouble-free use, yesterday the add-on was updated. Since then, on every start of Thunderbird (with Lightning) HTML-windows with Google login-pages open for every Google-calendar-account, asking for login-name and password. But the input is not accepted, it says cookies would be disabled. So no synchronized calendar is loaded.
So I had to search for the enable-cookies-option in Thunderbird - I didn't now that an e-mail-client has this option.
After enabling cookies the log-in worked and Google asked to accept the access of provider_for_google_calendar. I agreed and the calendars where shown again.
The appointments of one calendar where shown twice, but this could have an other cause...
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I have used this for many years and it is invaluable. Thanks to Phillipp for fixing the recent hic-cup very promptly.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.32).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Got the same issue as dryang where upon launching Thunderbird a window constantly pops up asking for Google credentials. Going into Preferences > Privacy and turning on cookie tracking solved the issue. Solid plugin with good customization options.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.32).You can enable cookies in the Thunderbird preferences dialog under security.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
With the latest update every time I launch thunderbird a popup window appears asking me for Gmail credentials + authenticator code. It sure is annoying.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.32).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
With the latest update, Google Tasks finally works! It also allows multiple calendars and task lists to be setup at once.
Only 4 stars though despite the improvements because offline support seems to have been removed.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
TB ver: 31.0 on Windows 7 64-bit
This extension was only syncing in one direction previously: events created in Google Calendar would appear in Lightning (but only if you exited and restarted TB). With the 0.32 update the syncing is completely broken. Frankly I don't understand why TB doesn't include support for what is probably the most popular calendar service.
TB ver. 35.x to 38.5.0: as another user reported, I'm constantly getting the "event changed on server" prompt that you can't bypass. Clicking "reload" does nothing - the prompt reappears in about two second. Clicking "submit" gets you past the prompt until the next TB session..then its back. This is maddening!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Aug. 11, 2014 - Linux Mint 13 MATE TBird 31.0 .... Provider for Google had absolutely no difficulties importing 6 of my google cals into TBird. Syncing between google cal and TBird works correctly for me with all cals.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.32).Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Hi,
I'll give 5 stars once this is fixed. I'm using Kubuntu 14.04. A few days, TB was updated and all addons, but this Add-on gives me the creeps since then. Thunderbird becomes unusable. It waits minutes for somthing to happen, then opens a window, which takes another minute, to tell that a script which is part of this add-on has problems or so, and clicking on the "stop script" button takes another minute to respond. This goes on and on. After disabling the add-on, TB works fine again. But I have no calendar data. Lightning is no good if I can't sync it with my Google calendars.
The error message in the console says:
"Zeitstempel: 30.07.2014 16:06:55
Warnung: getAttributeNodeNS() sollte nicht mehr verwendet werden. Verwenden Sie stattdessen getAttributeNS().
Quelldatei: resource://calendar/modules/calXMLUtils.jsm
Zeile: 32", calendar-unifinder is the script's name. I've no idea if that helps to solve the problem. It took me ten minutes to get the error console opened and this message extracted...
An update:
I switched to the distro Manjaro (based on Arch Linux), where I encounter the same problem. The calendar-unifinder.js script is reported to not to respond, while memory usage of TB increases continually (from about 200 MB to 2 GB and more). When stopping the script, memory usage decreases for a while, but then it starts to build up again, TB reports the script doesn't answer (same script, same line), it takes a while to make it stop, so I disabled it again. Calendar Tweaks is disabled, Lightning works just fine, but this addon doesn't.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
I'm being able to use this perfectly on my Windows 7 machines, but it's not being possible to sync calendars if Thunderbird is running on top of Windows 8.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.25).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works! Kubuntu 14.04, Thunderbird 24.6.0
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.25).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works! on Linux Mint 17, Thunderbird 24.6.0
Thanks!
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Six months ago this problem came up, still unresolved.
My calendars are completely frozen, no way to roll-back, forums and support says TB 24.1.1 + Lightning 2.6.3 + Provider 0.25 are ok, but they are a piece of a junk together.
Tried again today, and after 1 hour I restarted Thunderbird in safe mode, disabled this damned "provider", adn staying without calendars. Well done!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It's just great. Just a suggestion: Copy the 'how to' from the wiki to this page so it's easier to configure the addon.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.25).Rated 1 out of 5 stars
A great concept for but It does not work. I installed it but, as other reviewers note, Thunderbird will freeze upon the restart. After starting TB in safe mode and disabling the add on, I was able to use Thunderbird again. I'm sure it was useful in the past, but it no longer works on Thunderbird 24.6, Lightning 2.6.6, Provider 0.25.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.25).Rated 1 out of 5 stars
i use this with postbox and it's a good idea ... until it just stops working. this (in concert with lightning) pulls in my calendars and i'm able to use it pretty much flawlessly for about a day after installing. then, suddenly none of my events appear on the calendar. they are all still in my google calendar. all of my calendars are still listed in the postbox calendar window, with the boxes checked, indicating i want them shown ... but the calendar itself is totally blank. if i remove and reinstall it, everything comes back. for a day. then 'poof' it's gone again.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.25).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This is very useful addon For Thunderbird.This addon co-works with Lighting addon in order to Synchronizing Lighting calendar with Google calander.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.25).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
THis add-on has been very useful for me for a couple of years...then Thunderbird updated itself to version 24.5.0 just yesterday...now this app crashes Thunderbird. I'd write another review with five stars if this developer fixes the bug, but it seems pretty useless at the moment for Windows 7 users...anyone else have this problem, or is it just me?
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.25). This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Since moving to the Mac universe and the iOS universe I have searched in vain for something to sync Outlook for Mac calendars across machines. Enter Thunderbird, Lighning Calendar and Provider for Google Calendar.
Works great. A bit fiddly to set up, but once done, works well. Offline functionality still a bit wonky as it seems that all data is loaded from the "cloud" on startup of T'Bird. Maybe wrong, but that's how it seems.
Now my cals on the Mac Mini, Macbook Air, iPhone and iPad are all sync'ed. No need for the basic "iCal" on the MacOS platform which is somewhat basic.
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