Provider for Google Calendar

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by sas on Oct. 23, 2014 · permalink

This add on work fine until today. Tbird automatically upgraded to v.31.2.0 and Lightning 3.3.1. At that point, Provider refused to work until I upgraded from v.1.0.1 (which worked just fine) to v.1.0.2, which is where the wheels came off. All (and I do mean ALL) of my existing events disappeared from Lightning. I went to view my Google calendar online and those same events were there, the new Provider simply was not picking them up from Google. The curious thing is that I CAN add new events in Lightning and they will upload to Gcal and sync with my iPhone just fine, so it is only the old already entered events that are gone from Lightning.

A quick look at the Mozilla add-ons webpage for Provider 1.0.2 reveals what the problem is, it's just that no one there seems to have noticed it: In very small, almost grayed-out typeface, the following sentence appears: "Works with Thunderbird 24.0 - 34.0a1." So apparently Mr. Kewisch released an out of date Provider that is NOT COMPATIBLE with T'bird v.31.2.x.

Mr. Kewisch, re-update Provider to work with this latest T'bird abomination as well as the old one did, and I will update this review to give it the 5 stars the previous versions did.