I'm planning on dropping support for the calendar extension within both Firefox Portable and Thunderbird Portable in the next release. This is due to the fact that the calendar component is now a part of the new Lightning extension, which is portable out of the box and the calendar extension is being dropped. (This won't affect Sunbird, of course, since it's a separate product.)
Before I did, I thought I'd see if anyone had any reason why I shouldn't dropped it. Anybody?
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Do you plan on adding support for the Lightning extension in the future? I would use SBP, but I just dont use it enough to have a full app, that's why I use the extension instead.
Speaking of which, I know you receive the latest news from Mozilla, are you also in constant communication with them? Is there a way they can fix my little problem with the lightning extension?
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As stated in my original post, Lightning is portable out of the box.
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I use the Lightning extension in my local TB and might be putting it on my TBP.
I never liked having a seperate app for this anyway.
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It's just that I want quick access to the calendar (open TBP and have it go directly to the month/week/day view). The old calendar extension had the "-calendar" parameter to make it do that (I think that's what it did), but the Lightning extension does not have it. But the extension is working fine.
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Teen1: Oh, here comes that cannonball guy. He's cool.
Teen2: Are you being sarcastic, dude?
Teen1: I don't even know anymore.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
The reason it doesn't have a -calendar switch supported is because Lightning turns Thunderbird *into* your calendar. Unlike the calendar extension where it was essentially just a totally separate XUL app running on FF/TB's engine, Lightning is a fully integrated extension that alters Thunderbird's interface. That's why it only works with Thunderbird and not Firefox. And that's why there's no -calendar switch... when you launch Thunderbird, there's your calendar controls in the lower left. It's not a separate screen. If you want a separate calendar, use Sunbird.
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The only problem I see is that this extension does not have the capability of sending a single item to a email recipient. It doesn't even have a way to export a single event, just an entire calendar. Yet.