It is nice to see a TB plaxo at last but...

As much as I'm glad that it's finally out after such a long wait, I do feel a bit "disappionted" in the quality compared to the plaxo toolbar that is incorporated in Outlook for example.
None of the card editing in the little window
much less optins it seems to me, especially whith the synch process.
The Toolbar does take up a huge amount of space (I know I can turn it off)
All the options send you to a webpage not a little window like in Outlook.
And the comment about being to busy dealing with the AIM launch to help us.

I am not saying that it is crap and so on, I am glad that it now exists, and I am thankful to all the guys that developped it. But I can't help but find that we (thunderbird users) have been seriously been put on the sideline by Plaxo; it took them long enough to come out with the plaxo toolbar; and it isn't quite as powerful (I get the impression, but may be wrong) as the other version, Outlook etc...

Thank you for listening to this rant... but please this is not aimed at the kind people that actually did develop it for us ! /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Hi Tom. Thanks for the rant... really. Always a good reality check.

The current TB is still beta, so there are likely to be a number of things that may not be present. I think in general, the quality of this beta release has been quite good though (yes - I'm biased), and most of the core features are present today (ie: AB syncing).

Of course your next question is going to be when is the next release of the TB client (GA or otherwise), but unfortunately, there are no further details that I can provide at this time. I can only say that we are committed to Thunderbird users as well as extending Plaxo to other platforms, applications and services and much effort is being made. Once a new release is available, we'll be sure to announce it here and else where.

Thanks,

Stacy

Is there a toolbar for Firefox or will one of the others work? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

There is currently no specific toolbar for Firefox, similar to what we currently provide for IE. You'll just have to use firefox to access your Plaxo Online account directly.

I'll also give a "thumbs down" for the amount of space that the plaxo toolbar takes in Thunderbird. I'd like to have an option that allows me to integrate the plaxo buttons with the TB buttons (move the plaxo buttons up to the same line/size/etc as the TB buttons).

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I'll also give a "thumbs down" for the amount of space that the plaxo toolbar takes in Thunderbird. I'd like to have an option that allows me to integrate the plaxo buttons with the TB buttons (move the plaxo buttons up to the same line/size/etc as the TB buttons).

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Go into preferences and uncheck toolbar. As you can see from my screenshot you can access all needed Plaxo functions from the menu or from the toolbar. I keep my toolbar off, and only re-enabled it for the screenshot so that you could see that all toolbar functions are duplicated from the menu item Plaxo.
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/4657/plaxo0vf.gif

I love the IE toolbar, problem is I'm not a big fan of IE. Since Thunderbird doesn't support multiple contacts folders (making it as good as useless to people like me who like to file their friends away...) I wanted to express my hope that Plaxo doesn't regard the Firefox question as answered by creating a Thunderbird plugin. An IE style toolbar is much more useful in my view.

Feel free to cast your vote in the Plaxo for XXXXX forum.