424643 - Add missing but often used address book fields to Thunderbird Addressbook

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 266891

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Duncan]

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Thunderbird Addressbook is missing fields and options that are standard in other products and therefore reduce both the usability and attractiveness of the product.

The most obvious missing fields are multiple fields for addresses, emails, etc as well as category, dates (i.e.: birthday, anniversary) and the photo field.

An extension that seems to address this issue is MoreFunctionsForAddressBook (https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html) from KAOSMOS.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Addressbook
2. try to add a second address, category, birthday or similar
Actual Results:  
The extra fields are not available.


Perhaps one could have KAOSMOS and jcranmer work on integrating some of that code?
See also the Thunderbird 3 endhancement request site:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Thunderbird_3_Possible_Enhancements#More_flexible_address_book

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I'm duping this to bug 266891 because that'll be the main one for redoing Thunderbird's cards. All the fields you mentioned are either duplicates of that bug or other bugs (some of which are filed in Core: Mailnews Address Book).