Google Contacts 0.5.50b6

I've uploaded Google Contacts 0.5.50b6. It fixes a problem in a batch synchronization and add new option to a group mapping functionality. You can choose one of two delete operation when you enables the group mapping: delete from Google and delete from the mapped group.

In addition to that, I decided to use Javascript 1.7 and its yield statement in the beta. I enables the add-on to release CPU regularly. It makes synchronizing time a little bit long but it reduces freezing of GUI.

After the b6 release, I'm going to localize the addon and submit to BabelZilla. Please keep watching BabelZilla and translate new strings when it is available there. I'll start to work for Thunderbird3 add-ons after official release of v0.5.50.

Google Contacts 0.5.50b5

Google Contacts 0.5.50b5 is now available for download. It fixes bugs in the previous beta and improves efficiency. In this beta, group mapping is changed. So, you need to set it again before you use it.

This will be the last beta for v0.5.50. Please let me know if you find any problems.

[Update]
b5 has a problem in synchronizing contacts having non-ascii characters by batch mode. So, I'll release an addtional beta. It'll fix the issue and include some new functionalities.

Google Contacts 0.5.50b4

I've uploaded v0.5.50b4. The previous beta, v0.5.50b3 has a problem in batch synchronization. v0.5.50b4 fixes the issue. Please don't use b3. In addtion to the fix, b4 eliminates some ineffective codes in rebuilding an address book. It may improve the performance issue more.

Google Contacts 0.5.50b3

I've uploaded new beta: v0.5.50b3. It optimize a batch mode sync prcess. Moreover, backup functionality is disabled by default.; it is one of reasons for the low performance when a large numer of contacts are synchronized. These fixes includes many code changes. Please test it carefully.

I've implemented almost all functionalities I planed to add to v.0.5.50. If you find any problems, please let me know.

Google Contacts 0.5.50b2

I've uploaded Google Contacts v0.5.50b2. It fixes some bugs in the prevous beta and adds new functionality: Group mapping.

The group mapping is in the "Advanced" tab in the option dialog. You can select one of system groups in a menulist for each account. If you want to choose user created group, select "Other" and input the group name. After you specify the group, only contacts in the group are synchronized. In other word, the group to an address book, not a mail list. If you don't need the function, choose N/A.

For example, if you select My Contacts for the group mapping, all contacts in the group are loaded to an address book. When you add a card to the address book, a contact is added to Gmail and added to the group.

There are two precautions for the group mapping. One is duplicated contacts. Group mapping does not retrieve all contacts in Gmail. So, it cannot check conflicts of contacts. Another is deletion of contacts. Deleting contacts means removing them from Gmail; it does not mean removing from the group. Please note them.