Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will. Betterbird aims at providing a better user experience by fixing annoying bugs in Thunderbird and implementing new features. Please refer to this feature table for examples. This should give you an impression of where the project is headed.
Betterbird is a soft fork of Mozilla Thunderbird. Soft fork means that it is closely following the Thunderbird Extended Support Releases (ESR) therefore avoiding the mistakes of other forks which quickly lost track of upstream Thunderbird, thus opening users up to security vulnerabilities.
Is Betterbird for me?
If you like Thunderbird but are discouraged by too many bugs, then give Betterbird a try. It is 100% compatible with Thunderbird's ESR version. You can install the same dot release of Thunderbird in parallel and switch between Betterbird and Thunderbird on the same profile without problems and without needing the -allow-downgrade command line switch.
Betterbird 102.11.0-bb35 changelog:
Based on Thunderbird 102.11.0
Fixed in this version:
- FIXED - Issue with complex search terms when inserting a term at the top
- FIXED - Improved the Sending progress dialogue: Incompatibility with add-on MailMerge
- CHANGED - Pref browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir now set to true to avoid .partfiles on desktop when opening attachments from the compose window - Bug 1800328
Fixed in Betterbird, not fixed in Thunderbird 102.11.0 yet:
- CHANGED - Improved the Sending progress dialogue: Now works during retry if previous dialogue was cancelled (fixed in 102.9.1)
- FIXED - Hang when viewing HTML message with many links as plain text (possible denial of service attack vector) (fixed in 102.9.0)
- FIXED - Subscribe/Unsubscribe buttons didn't check/uncheck the respective checkbox for the folder) (fixed in 102.7.1)
- CHANGED - Selecting or unselecting a dictionary in the editor context menu doesn't close the menu (fixed in 102.0)
- FIXED - Various problems when saving the compose window as file (fixed in 91.9.1)
- FIXED - Status text sometimes displayed "null" (fixed in 91.9.0)
- FIXED - .startup-incomplete not deleted from profile (fixed in 91.8.0)
- FIXED - Inserting links with spaces gave random erroneous results [full release notes]
Download: Betterbird 102.11.0-bb35 | 52.1 MB (Freeware)
Download: Betterbird Portable 76.0 MB
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