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Reviews for Provider for Google Calendar
1,650 reviews for this add-on
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great utility. Extremely helpful. Would be even better if it could provide the ability to set the SMS reminder option as well. As it is today, one has to login to Google Calendar directly in order to set this option for a specific entry. Otherwise, great piece of coding. Keep up the great work!!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.1).Rated 1 out of 5 stars
This is a good idea in practice, but not implemented very well, perhaps due to google support issues?
Regardless, I've been unable to use this effectively. My own use model is to only save other people's events to my common Google calendar for use at work and home. But the reminder default never seems to work, making it pretty useless for me. You can set a reminder, but seconds later it disappears. Whether edits stick or not seems unpredictable as well.
The real problem is that the support page lacks settings for different use models. Some people may work around the bugs one way, others another. It depends on whether you're creating or saving events, whether you want confirmations (I don't), whether you log into google (I don't), etc. And if you need to edit the internal settings, rather than click on a gui, something's wrong.
I do look forward to 0.6.0 ?? or at least better documentation for this version that covers many use models and enumerated settings. The concept of being liberated from MS Outlook is right on!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
oh.. and dont' forget to read this great article...
http://bfish.xaedalus.net/?p=239
the only crappy part was that i had relied on iphone calendar in essentially island mode (vista mail is not detected by itunes) so when you go to sync iphone will replace all device data with the google data. And mobile me won't sync unless you have outlook installed so you end up SOL. Oh well. small price.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Awesome. Dont' know what it's doing in the back end but now I have achieved a personal holy grail that I've waited for an entire year. That's to sync iphone contacts and calendar with either the web (gmail/calendar) or a client (thunderbird/lightning) (and I've managed to do all of the above).
"Provider" was the conduit between google calendar and mozilla lightning.
Learn how to sync google calendar/contacts with iphone at http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html
and you're all set. All syncs in real time from any device, in any direction, bilateral supported.
Sick.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Google calendar already add task. It will be wonderful if GDATA also support this feature.
At any rate this addon is totally useful.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Google calendar already add task. It will be wonderful if GDATA also support this feature.
At any rate this addon is totally useful.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
FANTASTIC extension. I use it EVERY DAY.
We have Outlook in our company but I hate it. Its unstable...
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
easy to use and gets 98%. overheads are slow on multiple calendars (6). Main drawback is the repeat function. This did not work
Lightning to Google - just got loads of incorrect entries suggests a feedback loop.
However Google to Lightning worked fine.
Config (XP (fully updated),Thunderbird 2.0.021, Lightning 0.9)
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Must have add-on!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
That's great, thanks!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Beautiful!!!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
In a word, awesome! I was able to display and edit all five of my google calendars using this add-on. Very slick!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Had the same "Requires additional items" problem as the last two reviewers. It happens because the version of Lightning in the Ubuntu repositories is too old. To fix it, firstly uninstall the package "lightning-extension" using either Synaptic or the terminal. (In Linux Mint, your system will say that a package called "mint-meta-gnome" will also be removed - it is safe to do so because it is a metapackage, i.e. it isn't a program itself, just a convenient way of installing a long list of other packages. The lightning extension is on that list, but removing it does not remove any of the other packages on that list.)
Next, install the latest version of Lightning from the Mozilla add-ons site, then install Google Provider, and you should be home and dry.
This fix is for Ubuntu and its derivatives such as Linux Mint, though I would guess that similar solutions exist for other distributions.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Mine isn't working. In the Add-ons menu, it says: "Requires additional items". That's all. I have Lightning installed. TBird is version 2.0.0.21.
My only add-ons are enigmail and lightning. Anyone have a clue what "additional item" it wants?
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Love it, but it cannot be enabled on Thunderbird 2.0.0.19, i'm using Ubuntu Linux Intrepid Ibex.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
My system is an HP laptop (dv 1000 series) running XP sp3. My business and personal needs are fairly simple such as no invitations, attendees, etc. I have not seen the performance degraded issues reported by some.
It took me a while to figure out how to set things up, but everything has gone well after that hurdle.
If you have multiple calendars on your system, you have to be sure to make the entries within the G-calendar (my designation) as that is the only one synced to Google. Although it will pick up entries from those made in my home calendar with Thunderbird, these do not transfer to the Google calendar in the cloud, but I've merely moved over to running everything through the G-calendar as my default.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
google takvimleriyle senkronize çok güzel bir özellik keşke yazdığım notları google notlara da kaydeden bir eklenti olsaydı
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.1).Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Great tool, but what I really miss is the option also to add extra calenders (without the necessity to obtain the friends-passwords), like you can do in Google Agenda.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.5.1).Rated 3 out of 5 stars
The thing looks good and works well, although how to get the calendars to work took me a while to find! There the plugin could be inproved by having ALL the same things as google calendar so they can be used semlessly. Like the SMS notifications for example. Thanks..
Kev
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
I am totally beside myself with the fact that someone had the aptitude to write such a great program in concept, but failed to allow the calendars to simply sync with Google upon a keystroke instead of relying on a constant online connection to send the data back and forth between Lightning & Google.
As many others have complained, I have found that this add-on brings Thunderbird's performance down to a completely unacceptable and almost useless level.
Yes, I have checked the "experimental" caching box to be able to view calendars offline... not good enough.
Yes, I have tried making the calendars "read only", but who the heck wants that?
Make this add-on a REAL and USEFUL tool on the next revision by letting the calendars reside locally on the PC and simply sync with Google upon command. Fast, simple, useful, always available.
Maybe you want to join the Mozilla Calendar Project and help us improve performance? I can set you up with a few links to get started in development if you like
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