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1,654 reviews for this add-on
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
I can use this extension only for my personal calendar with a limited amount of recurring events. The work calendar uses Google Apps and contains a huge amount of events, mostly are recurring ones (daily standups and weekly reviews, plus the ad-hoc meetings... every day is filled). This extension unfortunately doesn't scale very well and occasionally I get unresponsive script alerts that freeze Thunderbird, preventing me to use email and calendar productively.
Sadly, there isn't anything better on Linux at the moment.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Die App ist spitze und ich möchte sie gerne weiter benutzen und empfehle sie prinzipiell auch weiter.
Allerdings hätte ich eine dringende Bitte zur Weiterentwicklung. Vermutlich, weil ich mehrere Kalender mit mehreren Leuten gemeinsam nutze und eine sehr hohe Anzahl an Einträgen habe, kommt es immer wieder zu massiven Verzögerungen beim Synchronisieren.
Leider steht dann nicht nur der Kalender sondern der gesamte Thunderbird still. Das ist sehr lästig und daher bitte ich darum, lieber Philipp Kewisch, ob das behebbar wäre?
Danach würde ich die App uneingeschränkt empfehlen und zahle auch gerne 10 Dollar dafür.
Danke und viele Grüße
Michele
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This add-on solved a major problem I was having with being able to edit my Google Calendar (add events, dismiss reminders, etc.) using Lightning v. 4.0.0.1 on Thunderbird v. 38.0.1. Installed this add-on and, BINGO, I now have two way communication with my Google Calendar. Awesome!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.0.4).Rated 2 out of 5 stars
This addon is not usable for corporate environments. If you have many calendars and something about 1000 entries in it the addon will freeze your thundebird.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.0.4).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Like some people here, I had problems with this plugin since some weeks. After some test, I realized that the "birthday" calendar was the probleme. I desactivated it but it would be great to solve this probleme.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.0.4).Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Works great with my calendar with few events in it right now.
But....
If I load a calendar that has a lot to synchronize. The status bar quickly synchronizes saying "synchronizing nnn out of 1000", When it gets near 900, it just starts over (maybe because it is doing another 1000). Eventually sometimes everything freezes up and later a panel comes up asking me if I want to continue a script that is taking a long time. No matter the answer, the interface becomes frozen.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This add-on is a Godsend. Integrates with the Lightning add-on for Thunderbird and provides Google calendar access.
There were initial problems with freezing but it was the Birthdays Calendar add-on that was found to be the culprit. I have since unsubscribed from this Birthdays calendar and everything is working great. Thank you...
Can you try unsubscribing for the Birthdays Calendar? This calendar is known to cause trouble for some reason.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
If you are using the Lightning addon for Thunderbird, this addon is a must. A great way to ensure that you can access your calendar no matter where you are, but still have full control with Thunderbird.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.0.4).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This met my need to include subscribed (third party) calendars that were attached to my Google account. This included other users calendars and Podio.
Previously, I had been using CALDAV, but it does not give this level of granularity.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Google changed their authentication regime. If it keeps asking for a password you need to go right-click on your calendar in the left-hand pane, delete it, and then set up again. Like so:
(1) First off, if you already have a Google Calendar set up in Thunderbird, delete it. Right-click on the calendar and select delete.
(2) Right-click on the empty space below "Calendar" in the left-hand pane.
(3) Select "New Calendar" and left-click that.
(4) Click "On the Network"
(5) Click "Next"
(6) Click "Google Calendar"
(7) Click "Next"
(8) If you already have your gmail account set up in Thunderbird as an email account, then select that gmail account from the leist you see here and click next. Otherwise, enter your full gmail account (including the part after the @ symbol).
(9) Click "Next"
(10) Google will ask for your password. Those of you without 2-step verification set up will want to read this: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en
Those of you using 2-step verification need to read this page: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833
(11) Select the calendars you have made and/or subscribe to in your Google Calendar account.
(12) Click "Next"
(13) Click "OK"
That's it, enjoy having access to your Google calendars from inside of Thunderbird/Lightning!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I've been using this very good plugin for years but since a few days it keeps asking for my gmail password. :(
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.0.4).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
every time i launch thunderbird, this plugin always ask me email and password of my gmail account, please solve it
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.0.4).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
since 1.04 I keep getting sync problems with Google Calendars - every appointment forces a dialog.
Down-graded to 1.03 which improves slightly but it's still there but not quite has annoying - still can't dismiss appointments and have to close dialog to get rid of it.
Are you working on trying to fix this problem or is this something local to my setup?
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
I'm using this add-on in an Arch Linux installation, and every time I start up Thunderbird I have to contend with at least three logins from Google. It doesn't seem to be able to remember my login information.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.0.4).Rated 3 out of 5 stars
This addon has been working very fine, but since a few days, it makes Thunderbird unresponsive. I tried everything: un- and re-installing the extension, Thunderbird, even moved from Linux Mint to Fedora 21 to Ubuntu 15. Always find the same behavior as soon as I add one google calendar. Something may have changed on Google side also.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.0.4).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good but makes Thunderbird slow unresponsive and not responding very well.
I have 3 google calendars, including a shared one.
The script hangs, for instance, with the error Unresponsive Script in
chrome://calendar/content/calendar-multi-day-view.xml:3464
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
1.04 simply is not working properly for me. It is not syncing all data from my Google Calendar. If I enter new entries directly on Google Calendar, it wont show up in Lightning.
Deleting the plugin, and re-installing it makes things worse. When syncing for the first time, less than half of the content on my Google Calendar will show up in Lightning.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time an update of this plugin causes problems with my Google Calendar sync.
HOW I FIXED IT: I reverted back to 1.03, and all is working fine now.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
No calendar entries in sight, so I followed the advice from a 5-star review here called "Works for me!!!". The author writes:
"I deleted the google calendar and re-added it and everything was back."
The same applies for me. But I don't share the opinion that this method means that it "works", or that it should be rated 5 stars.
If the plugin reliably shows the calendar entries and gives alarms, it *works*.
If the plugin at any time does *not* show the existing calendar entries, and/or misses to give an alarm - without warnings - it is not reliable and is frankly *not working*.
For a program to "work", it is not enough to "seem working for the time being". For software quality, there is a time perspective, there is a reliability aspect, and there can be a comparison with having a live person doing the job. Would it be accepted if a person behaved the same way, suddenly disappearing without a trace?
Apart from this, when it "works", it most often does its job quite well. Sometimes lots of old alarms come back, which is very annoying in the long run. All in all, 3 stars with lots of possibilities to reach 5! :-)
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
There is very annoying bug since 2011 - a password prompt for every calendar, which makes the addon hardly usable if you have many calendars (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682474). Otherwise it is great extension.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.0.4).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
There are quite a few people giving the developer of this add-on a hard time and bitching like he owed you something. Instead of complaining and insulting him, you should thank him. As far as I know he is doing this for free and I doubt that the occasional donation money will suffice for anything else than coffee.
I recently made the switch from an obsolete version of this add-on (before v. 1.0.x) to the most recent version (v. 1.0.4). The new version IS working and it is working fine. Better than the old versions, in fact. In order to make it work I did this: Completely remove all of your Google calendar subscriptions from Lightning and the stored password for your Google account. Then restart Thunderbird. Open Lightning and then File / New / Calendar / On the network / Google calendar. Then follow the instructions. A list with the available calendars of your Google account will eventually emerge and you can just choose by clicking the ones you wish to sync with Lightning. All of you haters must admit this is a lot more convenient than the old way of manually adding each calendar by clicking through a maze of settings in Gmail and then pasting in Lightning.
If you use a master password there WILL be a prompt for each of the Google calendars you have chosen to sync. This IS very annoying, but to some extent this bug has been plaguing Thunderbird for several years in various forms and it would be unfair to say that such a problem has only ever occurred with this extension. Nevertheless it is unbearable with lots of calendars. Luckily there is a solution, that the developer has already mentioned a couple of times: Install the extension Startup Master (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/startupmaster). It will solve the problem and you will only be prompted for the master password once. This extension seems to delay the loading of the accounts, extensions and stuff until AFTER the master password is given by the user. This should be the default behavior in Thunderbird, but it is not. There are other extensions claiming to be able to suppress multiple master password prompts, but this is the only one I’ve tried that actually works and that won’t cripple the ability to sync the calendars.
So, all in all, here we have a guy who is dedicating his spare time to write an extension that will enable us to use Google calendars together with customizable open source software. It must be a pretty tedious and tiresome task to try to keep up with the constant changes in the Google API:s, but as far as I can see he has done a pretty good job. Google may claim that their continuous tampering is related to enhanced security, but that is probably not the entire truth. They are obviously trying to push people away from using anything else than their own browser by making it harder to employ the alternatives. Guys like the developer of this add-on are a healthy antidote to that. He’s doing a great job and he’s doing it for free. I lift my hat off for that and say thank you very much.
For anyone still longing for the old days when calendars had to be manually added, there is also hope for you. Check out post number 21 in this thread: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682474
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