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We often have different address books, may it be on twitter, GMail, Facebook or local address book. Managing contacts in them can be very difficult at times, especially when the information is duplicated or inconsistent. Mozilla with its Labs feature has come up with an add-on, that will help you to keep all these contacts at one place, providing you with a simple solution to contact management, with the privacy to share those contacts, in your hands.
The Contacts add-on integrates with address books so as to bring all your contacts under a single database. The best thing with the add-on is that it always allows you to control, which website you want to share your contacts with. Quite obviously, you will share the contacts with the websites you trust.
Here is a Screen-shot of the Add-on-
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The add-on has an in-built e-mail address auto-completion feature, so as to fill e-mail fields on web pages. This can be pretty useful when you want to invite your friends to invite your friends to some website, and you need to add their e-mail addresses to send invitations.
Currently, the add-on is in experimental stage, and allows you to import your contacts from Gmail and Twitter only. And, if you are a Mac OS X user, it also allows you to import Address Book database.
Following are some of the features of the add-on-
- To import from Gmail, you need to have an active session with GMail.
- Twitter contacts can be imported, if your Twitter username-password pair is saved with firefox.
- Native address book import is only implemented for MacOS 10.5 and 10.6.
- Gravatar icon import may take a long time on large address books.
- Duplicate email addresses or display names from a single service are not re-duplicated.
- Saved permissions don’t remember the list of people, only the list of fields.
- E-mail auto-completion works on any text input named “e-mail”, “email”, or “recipients”.
Currently the add-on is in pre-alpha stage, but it is worth using, so we are sharing it with you. The add-on works fine for me. If your Browser is not responding well after installing the add-on, you can remove it at any instant.
Download the experimental Contacts add-on here. Configure “Contacts” from the “Tools” menu, after installation.
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