Google Calendar Firefox Extension

This google calendar extension for firefox comes in handy. You all know about Google’s new calendar web application which can be compared to outlooks calendar function. One thing that was missing until now was the ability to get notifications of upcoming events while you´re not running the application. That´s when this handy Firefox extension comes into play.

All information you need are already at your hand. You have to enter your Google mail address, your timezone (the one you specify when you create the calendar) and the public / private feed url of your calendar which you can look up in your calendars settings. When the extension is installed you have an icon in the Firefox taskbar and if you move your mouse above it you see a popup with today’s events.

Update: The Google Calendar extension has been discontinued and is no longer available at the project website.

A search for Google Calendar at the Mozilla Firefox add-on repository listed the following alternative:

• Google Calendar Notifier [link] – Offers notifications for today’s events and upcoming all day events.
• Google Calendar Watcher [link] – Combines notifications of upcoming events with the ability to add new calendar events easily.

This extension provides robust notifications and display of your Google Calendars for today, as well as showing any upcoming all day events for…

The extension basically offers a similar functionality in all regards to the now defunct Google Calendar extension for the Firefox web browser.

Please note that Google Calendar Notifier has not been updated for a long time. I suggest you download and install the more recent Google Calendar Watcher extension instead which seems to be in active development.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Thursday April 27, 2006 -
Tags:firefox extension, google calendar, mozilla-firefox