Hello,
First of all: mad kudos for developing Thunderbird and helping people out.
I’m trying to import my address books from a VCF export and I’m having two problems:
crash upon import
I start Thunderbird:
td@emerald:~$ thunderbird
[calBackendLoader] Using Thunderbird's libical backend
console.debug: "Successfully loaded OpenPGP library librnp.so from /usr/lib/thunderbird/librnp.so"
Extension error: Error while loading 'jar:file:///usr/lib/thunderbird/omni.ja!/chrome/messenger/search-extensions/twitter/manifest.json' (NS_E
RROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) resource://gre/modules/Extension.jsm:570 :: readJSON/</<@resource://gre/modules/Extension.jsm:570:20
onStopRequest@resource://gre/modules/NetUtil.jsm:128:18
console.debug: "public keys: 0, secret keys: 0"
console.debug: "Successfully loaded optional OpenPGP library libgpgme.so.11 from system's standard library locations"
console.debug: "gpgme version: 1.13.1-unknown"
console.log: WebExtensions: STARTUP
console.log: "QF-prefs"
console.log: WebExtensions: 78.7.1
console.log: (new Error("Cannot load required OTR library", "resource:///modules/OTRLib.jsm", 75))
I use the import wizard to add an address book (just the book, not emails or extra data):
*** WARNING! sometimes this shows results too early.
something screwy here. this used to work fine.
*** results = Imported address book peeps
I see this screen:
and when I click on Finish Thunderbird crashes and restarts:
console.log: WebExtensions: BootstrapLoader for tbsync@jobisoft.de unloaded!
console.log: WebExtensions: SHUTDOWN
console.log: WebExtensions: BootstrapLoader for eas4tbsync@jobisoft.de unloaded!
console.debug: "OverlayBackup"
console.debug: 546146.6559998989
console.debug: 604800
JavaScript error: chrome://messenger/content/addressbook/addressbook.js, line 556: TypeError: gDirectoryTreeView.getIndexForUID is not a funct
ion
I reproduced this 3 times. Do the above errors suggest an issue with my plugins?
damaged names
When Tb does start up I see the contacts imported and they seem fine with the exception of non-ascii characters. I see them replaced with those rectangles with digits inside. Are those Unicode placeholders 
?
No, the affected characters are not Cyrillic (unlike suggested in this article):
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1328957
I took a look inside the VCF files and the characters are all OK, so the server I exported them from did it’s job all right.
I’m using a Ubuntu Linux derivative (64-bit) and Thunderbird 78.7.1. Is anyone seeing similar issues? If yes, perhaps a bug report would be in order?
Thank you!
