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 102.13.0-bb38 changelog:
Based on Thunderbird 115.0b6, release notes.
- RESTORED - Menu bar at the top of the main window (not underneath the new unified toolbar)
- RESTORED - Total and unread/selected count removed from status bar - Bug 1831667
- RESTORED - No more connecting lines in threaded view - Bug 1829470
- RESTORED - Visual feedback during Quick Filter Search - Bug 1831500
- RESTORED - Broken feed functionality, a lot of breakage in Thunderbird "Supernova": Feed updates, icons, etc.
- NEW - New preference gloda.list.immediate to show the search result as list immediately without having to click "Show results as list". Values: 0: Facet view, 1: Facet view and list view, 2: List view only. - Bug 580252
- FIXED - New mail (biff) indicator cleared prematurely when more than two new messages are received and read - Bug 1839805
- FIXED - Dummy rows in grouped view contained artefacts from other rows - Bug 1839035
- FIXED - Format incorrect when replying with selection to non-flowed plain text message - Bug 1839226
- FIXED - Password prompt for LDAP not working - Bug 1841348
- FIXED - Can't cancel sending message - Bug 1816540
- Other fixes not contained in Thunderbird 115 yet: Bug 1836735 [full release notes]
Download: Betterbird 102.13.0-bb38 | 52.2 MB (Freeware)
Download: Betterbird Portable 76.2 MB
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