Plaxo Adds Mozilla Thunderbird Support

Online contact management service adds support for open source email client through toolbar which has similar functions to current Outlook version.

Plaxo, the Internet contact management service which synchronizes with your Outlook or Outlook Express mail client to store and update your contact database online, today announced they would begin full support of a third client. The new application to be supported is the open source Mozilla Thunderbird.

The current beta of the Plaxo Toolbar for Thunderbird, Plaxo said, will allow members of the service to synchronize their Thunberbird address book with the online Plaxo one. It will work much in the same way as the Outlook toolbar and can be downloaded here.

“Plaxo aims to provide our members with the tools they need to connect to the people and information that matter to them,” said Todd Masonis, founder and vice president of products for Plaxo. “The Thunderbird client provides Plaxo members with yet another option to have consistent and up-to-date information across multiple locations and accounts, as well as able to access their contact information from their preferred platform and on their favored email client.”