sendung.de

The Duplicate Contact Manager (v0.3) extension for Mozilla Thunderbird 1 and 2 is out now.

Download

You can download the add-on from the following Mozilla Add-On directory page.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/2505

While you’re there, feel free to rate.

Usage

After installing the extension, open your Thunderbird address book and find the new menu item “Duplicates” (or in german: “Dubletten”). The rest should speak for itself.

Known Problems

The complete issue tracking takes place on our Google Code site.

• Some users reported that the statistics that are displayed after processing the address book are incorrect. E.g., when 3 duplicates where removed, “33″ is displayed. I cannot reproduce that problem. If you recognize this problem, your feedback (with details about the OS/architecture you use) is highly welcome.
• Two users reported that an exception appeared while using the extension. If you get an exception, please send me a screenshot of it or the text contained in the exception. Thanks!
• The extension only works with address books that contain up to 1000 contacts. This is due to hard coded recursion limitation in the Javascript engine of Mozilla. It is indicated by a “too much recursion”error in the Javascript console.

Please add new bugs or additional information to known bugs via Google Code. Thanks!

Wishlist

1. Allow for more than 1000 contacts to be handled.
2. Let the user decide beforehand whether or not to delete exact duplicates automatically.
3. When treating several address books, optionally find and handle duplicates across address books.
4. Keyboard interaction: Use arrow keys (left, right) for selecting of contacts, Space and Enter for “Apply and Continue”.
5. Be able to to save both entries of a duplicate pair, not just th eleft OR right one.
6. Be able to edit all contact fields, not only the ones that already carry data.
7. Instead of only showing two similar contacts as a duplicate, show all that are the same/similar.
   (While I understand why people ask for this, it’s really a big challenge to provide this — both in terms of the algorithm as well as in terms of a user interface. This won’t happen any time soon.)
8. Prevent Thunderbird from creating duplicate entries in address books.

You can find the complete user-generated wishlist on the Wiki page at our Google Code site.

Change History

• From version 0.2 to 0.3
  • made it work with Thunderbird 2
• From version 0.1 to 0.2
  • now allows you to select which address book to process.
  • exact duplicates won’t be deleted automatically.
  • german localization introduced