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There are two ways to sync the calendar with your Google one. The first is the use the “Provider for Google Calendar” add-in for Thunderbird. Quick and easy to install, for me it has one major drawback, the lack of an off-line cache. Whilst I have broadband and therefore am able to be on-line all the time, the lack of a cache causes another problem. As I move from month to month, the Provider add-on has to read the Google calendar before displaying it. This is a slow process.

The other alternative, to which I have just swapped, is Gcaldaemon. This is a trickier thing to install, but provides a cache to browsing the calendar (even when on line) is immediate. It’s worth getting Gcaldaemon to work, as it’s a much better option.