Provider for Google Calendar

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by Chuxter on Feb. 26, 2009 · permalink

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.