As the title says.

Hi Jack,

When I look for updates in "Thunderbird>Addons>Extensions", I've got an error message.



I uninstalled the Skype toolbar and reinstalled the latest version straight from the skype web, but I still have the same message.

Rgds, Chris.
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TB 2.0.0.4 on Win XP
Skype 3.2.0.163
Skype Toolbar For Thunderbird for Win 1.0.0.54 09/28/2006

Yup, that's the problem, Skype needs to fix it (and hopefully add some of the many features that have been requested recently but not appeared, fingers crossed).

This will be fixed in our next hotfix release!
Sorry for the delay!

Excellent, thanks! No problem about the delay.

Will there be any other changes in this release, and if not, when do you plan to release the next major update and what new features will it have?

Thanks!

Great! No problem about the delay.

Looking forward for the next release.

Many thanks for your hard work,
Chris.

Hi all,
Deeply appreciate your enthusiasm for this product. Would very much like to hear more (either in the forum or to me privately):

1. How do you use it?
2. What new features would you like to see implemented?
3. If we decide to charge for the Skype Toolbar for Thunderbird - would you be willing to pay for it? Compare to the SkyLook product which is 49 US$
4. If we decide to open-source the Skype Toolbar for Thunderbird - would you contribute to the development?

Hi Peter, I've just sent you a PM.

Thank you for your enthusiams, too. Some ideas for the development, if I may share. Note, that I never used the toolbar earlier, I have no idea, how it worked.
1. I think, it would be great if the toolbar appears in the address book toolbar, or - if it is possible - a "call" button is put next to the contact's phone number field. Maybe
2. For me, that would be enough...
3. 10-20$...
4. I am not a developer, but maybe this would be better. However, just heard that Thunderbird will somehow detach from Mozilla? Does it mean that it will not be open-source?
Approximately, when will the toolbar be released?

I am sorry to have to inform you that the Skype Toolbar for Thunderbird will NOT be updated, supported or available for download in the near future.
We have decided to cut down on the number of Toolbars that we support and the Thunderbird version is one of the toolbars that will be let go.

???
Sadly that's very disappointing. Thunderbird is such a superior product compared to MS Outlook I would love to be able to make my skype calls directly from my T-bird address book rather than be forced to maintain one in Thunderbird and another in skype.

You can make this work if you follow these steps. Let me first say that the ONLY feature of the toolbar that I use is the hot linking of phone numbers in to Skype Out. That is the only thing that I do and it works flawlessly.

1. Download the Skype toolbar for Thunderbird.
2. Use your favorite Zip utility to unzip the archive. You want these files to NOT be contained in a folder.
3. Open the file install.rdf in Notepad or your favorite text editor.
4. Scroll down to the line that says Max Version and change the 2 to a 3 or whatever.
5. Save.
6. Zip these files into a Zip archive. Again, they cannot be inside of a containing folder.
7. Change file extension from .zip to .xpi.
8. Install manually in the add ons window using the install button.

I am new to Skype and really was disheartened to find out that they aren't going to continue with the toolbar for Thunderbird. I will keep doing this until it just doesn't work any longer. If going through these steps is more than you want to do you can download this file and use that. It is "fixed" through version 3.

Edit: Never mind. It wouldnt let me upload the .xpi. You will have to do it the hard way.



Open source the thing. I'll contribute time and I'll find people to continue the development. Let the thing fly.

And while you're at it, could you make it compatible w/ the Linux/Ubuntu version of Thunderbird? Thanx.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy nut, but I have spent a fair amount of time with Microsoft. Why wouldn't a "free" internet service want to be compatible with an extremely popular free email client? Why would someone spend their development money making add-on products for Microsoft, especially when they have a long history of destroying the businesses of those who make add-ons? If you are old enough to remember when Lotus died, you can imagine the crash waiting for Microsoft.

For one, I'd really like to have one (non-Microsoft) address book which talked to my phone, my email and my pda/smartphone. This seems eminently logical to me.

On the other hand, the decision not to support Thunderbird seems almost mental.

It's your loss. Really.
regards,

GS


p.s.: Making it open source would have solved the problem, but no, it's better (not cheaper) to let interesting add-ons die out...

Very disappointing.

I have just discovered this toolbar and was looking forward to using Skype with Thunderbird.

As a result, I noticed that I do not use Skype any more, or at least only scarcely on International calls. I do not buy any more credits.

But I am of course less influential than MS, despite their losing market share.

What is for sure : Skype will not make me return to Outlook or Office. No sir! I'll wait till someone else comes up with another nice VOIP with opensource compatibility.

Mike

Hi Mike,
I am very sorry to hear that you no longer use Skype as much because of the lack of support for Thunderbird.

This is serious. If it is the policy of Skype to support the monopoly of MS, than I am ready to drop Skype in this very moment.

For six years we lived for missions in Guatemala, and the last year we have a good internet connection. Skype did support us to stay in touch with our family and friends in the Netherlands and Canada. we realy were supporting users.
But now? I never have used MS Outlook, and I never will. After reading this story it is difficult to keep recommending Skype.

Evert

It's disconcerting to see that when forced to reduce the number of supported apps, Skype chooses to drop support for a particular address book format which has the potential to open the doors to thousands of additional skype contacts, but decides to keep supporting the Ms-Office addon whose point I am still trying to figure... Do people really so often call people whose number appear in a document that they need a shortcut? Do you have statistics as to who is really using that feature?? While browsing the web I certainly understand (hence Firefox/IE addons are good), but in office documents?? Seems a bit of a stretch to me, but I have been wrong before.

But thank you anyway on the good work on Skype. I use it all the time and it would be a lie to say that the lack of support for Thunderbird would make me stop using it...

Hi Evert,
The Skype Toolbar for Thunderbird was a personal favorite of mine - it really made Thunderbird into a complete communications platform and I loved it!
However, we had to make choices and the Skype Toolbar for Thunderbird was one of the products we no longer support. We also decided to drop the Skype Toolbar for Outlook Express, btw.
The products with the lowest number of downloads and usage had to go.

I hope you will find other redeeming factors that allow you to still recommmend Skype in the future!

I have version 2.0.0.12 and couldn't get this method to work.

Any other suggestions?

Meant this to have the quote... I have version 2.0.0.12 and this method doesn't work. Any other suggestions?

Sorry, can't help you with this. I only knew how to update the max version number, not how to make it work with newer versions of Thunderbird. I have moved on to Outlook 2007 and rarely use Thunderbird any longer.

You know, Peter changed his message, but if Skype would have any interest in open sourcing that Thunderbird plugin my offer to set up a project and manage it still stands. Again, I am not a programmer, but I am certain that a few could be found to hack that extension and keep it running.

I understand that Skype concentrated their efforts on the most downloaded plugins but open source and Thunderbird kind of go together eh?

As an avid Skype Pro, now Unlimited Subscriber, and an enthusiastic promoter of Skype, I believe that the question about releasing the code for the Thunderbird Toolbar deserves at least some kind of answer from Skype.

Open Sourcing the code under GPL could have some wonderful impact for Skype because the world never predicts what great innovations and features the Open Source community comes up with once they are given the blessing to do so.

What I want is the ability to to capture contact information either from messages in Thunderbird or web pages in Firefox and have them synced into my Skype Contacts and my T-bird Contacts. The Firefox toolbar works nicely for as much as it does, but it does not allow me to capture contact info beyond the phone number leaving me to manually update even the name, let alone address data.

Give this thing to the Open Source community and they'll have a fully functional actual productivity tool in no time. All to the good of Skype.

Please do at least the courtesy of explaining why you would decline to Open Source something you no longer wish to maintain or make use of.

In case you missed the message because not a reply to you. Please forgive the duplication.

QUOTE (DeathRowDoggie @ Mon May 12 2008, 15:42) *
if Skype would have any interest in open sourcing that Thunderbird plugin my offer to set up a project and manage it still stands. .... but open source and Thunderbird kind of go together eh?


As an avid Skype Pro, now Unlimited Subscriber, and an enthusiastic promoter of Skype, I believe that the question about releasing the code for the Thunderbird Toolbar deserves at least some kind of answer from Skype.

Open Sourcing the code under GPL could have some wonderful impact for Skype because the world never predicts what great innovations and features the Open Source community comes up with once they are given the blessing to do so.

What I want is the ability to to capture contact information either from messages in Thunderbird or web pages in Firefox and have them synced into my Skype Contacts and my T-bird Contacts. The Firefox toolbar works nicely for as much as it does, but it does not allow me to capture contact info beyond the phone number leaving me to manually update even the name, let alone address data.

Give this thing to the Open Source community and they'll have a fully functional actual productivity tool in no time. All to the good of Skype.

Please do at least the courtesy of explaining why you would decline to Open Source something you no longer wish to maintain or make use of.

Hi Glenn,
My lack of activity in this thread is not due to lack of interest in these questions. Neither am I ignoring you.
However, I don't have a good answer for you on the questions of open-sourcing.
I am sure you would do wonderful things with it but there are quite a few other considerations which are not trivial to solve.
Please note that this is not intended as a judgement on open-source neither from me nor from Skype.

Thank you for extending the opportunity to copy/paste and dig around my various application windows. My clipboard was feeling neglected, but not anymore, and by the looks of things, I should get very comfortable with the process

quote 'Peter Kalmström'
The Skype Toolbar for Thunderbird was a personal favorit of mine - it really made Thunderbird into a complete communications platform and I loved it!


Dear Peter, I hope you will have a chance to create a new thunderbird toolbar soon, also for mac users. I would use Skype much more than I do now if I had a easy way to do it for traditional calls. Very often I can't be bothered to cut and paste the number on the call window and I just use my ordinary telephone provider via dial up. You are loosing a lot of money not offering a easy way to use thunderbird address book.

thanks

Since Firefox 3 now has a Skype extension that highlights phone numbers on web pages and lets you dial them with a click, why not Thunderbird?

Hello!
All employees in my company, use only Thunderbird, and early used plugin SkypeTollbarForThunderbird. I'm sure, that the authority of Skype to make accessible new compatible plugin for wonderfull email application Thunderbird. I hope that, I will see information about this!
Kind regards

Here is another plea for the Thunderbird toolbar
PLEASE
PLEASE
PLEASE

It's obviously not a big technical deal...
So it's political...
So here is another user's vote!!!

i use skypeit, and it just works fine for me....

Dear Peter Kalmström,

Skype is a fantastic product. I'm using it for years on end.
It has an open source approache but it doesn't follow through. to bad

Hope to be surprised by a complete freeware communications platform one day.

Good luck in developing skype towards an opensource add-on

Gijs Buis
Holland

Well I use skype from time to time and I payed for credits, but I was very bummed to see that their isn't a plug in for Thunderbird to allow me to dial out straight from it. I think in all honesty as people start to become familiar with skype through constant exposure from Oprah more and more will also start to look at email clients and seeing that thunderbird is free I would suggest allowing the open source community to pick up the development of the toolbar. I stopped using outlook when I left the military and haven't looked back sense. Thunderbird is better in every way.