Start Address Book from command line
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You can bring up Mozilla Suite's or Thunderbird's Address Book using the command-line switch "-addressbook" [1].
For example, on Windows:
C:\Program Files\Mozilla\mozilla.exe -addressbook
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe -addressbook
And on Mac OS X:
/Applications/Mozilla.app/Contents/MacOS/mozilla -addressbook
/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird -addressbook
You can run these commands in whatever command-line interface your have on your OS (Command Prompt on Windows, Terminal on Mac OS X, et cetera).
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Note:
When using Windows, add quotations around the file path name, or it will not work.