Provider for Google Calendar

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by JezMe on Aug. 11, 2012 · permalink

I would give this addon zero stars if possible. The headache of having to enter your master password once for each calendar, when opening thunderbird... is well documented and has been going on for way too long.

I removed this addon, as it is NOT needed to sync thunderbird/lightning with your google calendar, and your cell phone calendar.

I removed this addon, changed my ical calendars to caldav (which thunderbird/lightning support natively with no other addon needed) and now have my thunderbird & lightning/google calendar/cell phone calendars all synced and running fine.

The BIG plus is.. no more entering master password multiple times when opening thunderbird. I am back to typing it in once, thats it. So, change your calendars to caldav, remove this addon, and you wont have the password headaches anymore. Contrary to what is stated below by someone else... you dont have to know anything about caldav to use that type of calendar. Just like you dont have to know anything about ical. Its not like you have to write code to use the calendar. Just google "caldav thunderbird google calendar" and you can find tutorials everywhere to setup your calendars via caldav.

I am running:

Windows 7
Thunderbird 14
Lightning 1.6

P.S. also, this addon was responsible for adding unwanted default reminders (6hrs before each event) to calendar events that were created.... when the reminders were turned off everywhere. You could NOT get rid of these reminders that this addon set. So yet another headache has been removed by removing this addon