Select Address Book Text Version 1.5

Select Address Book Text makes your address book more usable. Have you ever wanted to quickly copy a name or phone number from your address book into an email? Have you wanted to quickly create a mailing label for one of your address book contacts? This extension makes these operations as easy as a single context-menu click.

With this extension, the individual fields on your contact card are easily copy-able by using the context menu. You can copy a complete mailing label (address, or name and address) with a single menu operation. You can also use your mouse to select and copy whatever text you wish. Without this extension, Thunderbird requires you to open the "Properties" dialog box and spend time searching again for what you want, and copying each field individually. With Select Address Book Text, when you see what you want, you can copy it immediately.

Version 1.5 is compatible with Thunderbird version 5.0, which has recently been released.  The extension has been tested with TB5 and TB3.  The extension is no longer compatible with Thunderbird version 2.  There was also a small change to the Brazilian Portuguese postal address format.

Download from: Mozilla Addons: Select Address Book Text (https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/select-address-book-text/)

Select Address Book Text Version 1.4

Select Address Book Text makes your address book more usable. Have you ever wanted to quickly copy a name or phone number from your address book into an email? Have you wanted to quickly create a mailing label for one of your address book contacts? This extension makes these operations as easy as a single context-menu click.

With this extension, the individual fields on your contact card are easily copy-able by using the context menu. You can copy a complete mailing label (address, or name and address) with a single menu operation. You can also use your mouse to select and copy whatever text you wish. Without this extension, Thunderbird requires you to open the "Properties" dialog box and spend time searching again for what you want, and copying each field individually. With Select Address Book Text, when you see what you want, you can copy it immediately.

Based on user requests, version 1.4 has localized address formats.  When copying a complete address label to the clipboard, the format of the address label is customized to the user's local conventions.  This only occurs if a localized address format has been entered by a translator for your locality.  If a language localization is not yet available for your language, then the default U.S. address label format is used.  If you feel strongly about localizing this extension for your own language, please sign up as a translator at Babelzilla.org (and check the forum).

Language translations and address formats are kindly provided by Babelzilla.org volunteer translators.  Version 1.4 has new translations for:

• ES-MX by "emoreno";
• JA-JP by "elf" (partial);
• SV-SE by "Lakrits";
• VI by "longnh"

Download from: Mozilla Addons: Select Address Book Text (https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/select-address-book-text/)

Select Address Book Text Version 1.3.2

Select Address Book Text makes your address book more usable. Have you ever wanted to quickly copy a name or phone number from your address book into an email? Have you wanted to quickly create a mailing label for one of your address book contacts? This extension makes these operations as easy as a single context-menu click.

With this extension, the individual fields on your contact card are easily copy-able by using the context menu. You can copy a complete mailing label (address, or name and address) with a single menu operation. You can also use your mouse to select and copy whatever text you wish. Without this extension, Thunderbird requires you to open the "Properties" dialog box and spend time searching again for what you want, and copying each field individually. With Select Address Book Text, when you see what you want, you can copy it immediately.


New in version 1.3.2: localizations added thanks to volunteer Babelzilla.org translators:

• IT by "topoldo"; 
• PT-PT by "lloco"; 
• SR by "DakSrbija"; 
• ZH-CN by "BruceH"

Select Address Book Text Version 1.3.1

Select Address Book Text makes your address book more usable. Have you ever wanted to quickly copy a name or phone number from your address book into an email? Have you wanted to quickly create a mailing label for one of your address book contacts? This extension makes these operations as easy as a single context-menu click.

With this extension, the individual fields on your contact card are easily copy-able by using the context menu. You can copy a complete mailing label (address, or name and address) with a single menu operation. You can also use your mouse to select and copy whatever text you wish. Without this extension, Thunderbird requires you to open the "Properties" dialog box and spend time searching again for what you want, and copying each field individually. With Select Address Book Text, when you see what you want, you can copy it immediately.


Version 1.3.1 - localizations added thanks to volunteer Babelzilla.org translators: 

• DE by "Archaeopteryx"; 
• FR by "Goofy"; 
• NL by "markh"; 
• PT-BR by "Ghelman"

Select Address Book Text Version 1.3

Select Address Book Text makes your address book more usable. Have you ever wanted to quickly copy a name or phone number from your address book into an email? Have you wanted to quickly create a mailing label for one of your address book contacts? This extension makes these operations as easy as a single context-menu click.

With this extension, the individual fields on your contact card are easily copy-able by using the context menu. You can copy a complete mailing label (address, or name and address) with a single menu operation. You can also use your mouse to select and copy whatever text you wish. Without this extension, Thunderbird requires you to open the "Properties" dialog box and spend time searching again for what you want, and copying each field individually. With Select Address Book Text, when you see what you want, you can copy it immediately.

Version 1.3 has been improved based on user requests.  The most obvious change is that you can now copy an entire name or address with a single context menu click, rather than having to select it  with your mouse first.  This works for other individual fields in your address book as well, like phone number, or notes.  Of course copy/paste using the standard mouse selection method still works.  Tested on TB2 and TB3.

Select Address Book Text Version 1.2

Select Address Book Text makes your address book more usable. Have you ever wanted to quickly copy a name or phone number from your address book into an email?

With this extension, the individual fields on your contact card are easily copy-able by using the context menu. You can copy one or more address book fields with a single menu operation. You can also use your mouse to select and copy whatever text you wish. Without this extension, Thunderbird requires you to open the "Properties" dialog box and spend time searching again for what you want, and copying each field individually. With Select Address Book Text, when you see what you want, you can copy it immediately.

Version 1.2 is a significant improvement, including many requested features.  


The context menu ("right-click") now works to copy/paste selected text and links.

Cutting and pasting of whole sections of text which span several fields are now formatted more appropriately: extraneous space has been removed, and fields are separated by carriage returns.

Some mouse focus related issues should be improved: specifically, after using the search box, it is now possible to select, copy and paste card entries without first having to click on the card results window.

Tested on TB2 and TB3.0b3.

Select Address Book Text Version 1.1

Select Address Book Text makes your address book more usable. Have you ever wanted to quickly copy a name or phone number from your address book into an email?

With this extension, the individual fields on your contact card are easily copy-able by using the context menu. You can copy one or more address book fields with a single menu operation. You can also use your mouse to select and copy whatever text you wish. Without this extension, Thunderbird requires you to open the "Properties" dialog box and spend time searching again for what you want, and copying each field individually. With Select Address Book Text, when you see what you want, you can copy it immediately.

Version 1.1 adds support for Thunderbird 3.0b3.