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Sync Google Contacts with Thunderbird

Google Contacts is an Add-On for Thunderbird which creates an additional address book with your Google contacts.

Great tool!

Posted by nixpanic on Thursday, January 22, 2009

Let Firefox add RSS-Feeds to Thunderbird

I'm using Thunderbird as mail client and RSS-reader. Firefox is the web browser of my choice. Now I would like Firefox to add links to RSS-feeds to Thunderbird. The next script makes that possible.


#!/bin/sh
#
# Open an RSS-Feed with Thunderbird.
# Idea from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4368033&postcount=7
#

exec thunderbird -mail "feed:${1}"

Unfortunately I was unable to make it work (using about:config) without a script.

Posted by nixpanic on Wednesday, July 2, 2008

German Dictionary in Thunderbird-1.5 on CentOS-5

It's very anoying that the dictionaries from the Thunderbird Add-ons are not available for the version of Thunderbird from CentOS-5.

After getting some error messages, and trying around I found Localized Dictionaries for Mozilla Thunderbird on mozilla.org. Unfortunately the downloadable .xpi does not work for me?! However there is a nice note about OpenOffice.org Dictionaries and Thunderbird on the same page. This seems to work perfectly!

Posted by nixpanic on Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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