268007 - [ Enhancement ] Allow calling Address Book directly from system icon / script

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Timothy C. Quinn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

Many times, I use TB Address Book and not use Thunderbird mail directly. I would
like to be able to call Address book directly from a system level icon / script.

When I'm on my corporate network, I can't use imap or pop so to get Address
Book, I need to open thunderbird, click the Address Book Icon, Close
thunderbird. I would like to have Address Book come up automatically on my boot
scripts but can't currently do that.

Adding a command line switch to thunderbird executable would suffice like -a.
This would just launch Address Book.

Great work all and thanks!

JsD

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

*** Bug 268008 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Ahmm ... should work. See
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html#options and
http://kb-upgrade.mozillazine.org/index.php/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Addressbook_Command_Line.

If this was your aim please resolve this bug as WORKSFORME.

Comment 3

[Timothy C. Quinn]

Yes and thankyou.

I was not even aware of the Mozillazine knowledgebase. Maybe mozilla thunderbird
FAQ list should get feeds from the Mozillazine FAQ list. I'll make such a
suggestion to the maintainers.

Thanks for your time.

Tim

Comment 4

[Timothy C. Quinn]

Actually, who should I make this suggestion to update the MT FAQ's to?

There is no link on the website.

Should I open another issue?

tnx

Comment 5

[OstGote!]

Hmm ... the Kb is already linked from
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/. If you want to add it to
http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html please contact the maintainer there
at  http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/contact.html.