Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by Brian on Oct. 14, 2014 · permalink

I have been having problems in the latest version as well. I have 2 GMail accounts with calendars. My personal account seems to be working fine. I also have a business account that is managed by my company and uses Gmail/Google for everything. This is a more limited account and this is the one with issues. Since updating it has added reminders to a bunch of events that didn't have reminders before. This would be great but it's causing all sorts of problems. After installation I got notifications for 50+ past events it added reminders to. 3 of these event reminders could not be dismissed. Whenever I tried clicking the Dismiss button, either next to the event or the Dismiss All nothing would happen. If I view the calendr in Thunderbird I see a yellow exclamation point icon next to the calendar. If I mouse over that it says "The calendar XYZ is momentarily no available", or something like that. I tried deleting the past events directly in Google and re-creating the calendars in Thunderbird but the reminders still showed up. I tried clearing all saved passwords and flushing the cache, but it still showed up. Nothing worked. What else is odd is that when adding the calendar I see the "please choose a session" dialog box. The only active session listed was my personal Gmail, even though I had my business account and was getting email for it. It's like it can't communicate with anything but a personal level Gmail account.

Last night I tried completely deleting all addons and re-installing them. However, since then, I can't install the Provider for Google Calendar. Was it taken down due to these issues? I can still download it from the site but the Thunderbird add-on manager can't get it.

Anyway, like others, I have chosen to downgrade to 0.32 until these issues are resolved. Hopefully they will be soon. It looks like a lot of nice features have been added, but it has to work to be usable.