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Gmail’s recently announced IMAP support brought us closer to Thunderbird/Gmail sychronicity nirvana – but as Lifehacker reader Dan pointed out, you need to do some tweaking to get access to your Gmail contacts in Thunderbird.

Dan’s solution uses a combination of previously mentioned GCALDaemon  and the Contacts Sidebar Add-On – one of Gina’s favourite Thunderbird extensions. Here’s how he did it:

Install and set up GCALDaemon (just remember to ‘install’ and ‘start’ the service – that had me stumped for a while!).  This gives you the ability to search for contacts when creating new emails.

Enter ‘*’ (without quotes) into the contacts search box and you’ll get a full list.

Add the Contacts Sidebar Add-On though and its default setup will automatically download your Gmail Contacts for you to view whenever you want (as long as you’re online).

Thanks for the tip, Dan!