Betterbird 128.6.1esr-bb21 Released

Racerbob

Betterbird is an e mail program that is based on Thunderbird. In the old DSLReports site we posted about it in the Mozilla forum.

You can get the newest version here right now:
https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/index.php

Release notes can be found here:
https://www.betterbird.eu/releasenotes/index.html

px_eliezer_

Racerbob

Appreciate this info, I will have to try it.

I am still on a very old Thunderbird (91.12.0) because subsequent versions wiped out my old data (took long to recover). It was such a bad experience that I have prevented any other Thunderbird updates by brute force.

As a recall---and this was a few years ago---the reaction of the Thunderbird people to the problems updating after 91.12.0 was to brush it off as the equivalent of, when you make a revolution you have to break a few eggs.

Anyway looking forward to trying this Betterbird.

GeekGirl1

I switched to from Thunderbird to Betterbird several months ago when Thunderbird screwed up their unified folder view. Since it's a fork, I had no problems with compatibility. It just worked, I was happy.

A few weeks ago, I switched back to Thunderbird. Why? Betterbird started down the path of fixing problems due to Betterbird - and not Thunderbird. So, things came full circle and they now have to maintain their own stuff on top of Thunderbird.

Thunderbird has since fixed their unified folder view, so I switched back.

Read their "Software Quality" explanation at the bottom of the Betterbird home page. Product bashing is not a good long-term marking approach and does not give one confidence about this software.

I suspect that the employees hired by Thunderbird have now gotten up to speed and the issues that the Betterbird guys are complaining about are no longer a concern. That's my guess.

takeahike

GeekGirl1

I suspect that the employees hired by Thunderbird have now gotten up to speed and the issues that the Betterbird guys are complaining about are no longer a concern.

Yeah, but Betterbird is very much on the ball by comparison--for example every time I've requested support from them (done by email with them and which is basically a joke with Thunderbird) I've gotten an answer within five minutes, not to mention that they are way more on top of getting out new releases on time, like this very last v128.6.1 released by them on the due date of 1/22/25 and that Thunderbird has still not done yet despite their promise of that date. Don't get me wrong--since it's a free program I'm not really complaining but my donation for the app went to Betterbird instead. BTW, I have both and I suppose somewhat ironically still use Thunderbird as my default I suppose mainly out of habit, and it also should be noted that any fixes that Thunderbird has made will certainly show up virtually immediately in Betterbird.

david3

I used Betterbird for a long time, but had serious issues with it hanging after upgrading to 128. Even when it wasn't hanging, the interface would get slower and slower.

I went back to Thunderbird, and it's been running well so far, without those issues. And the interface is faster. They also seemed to have fixed some of the old issues I had with it before switching to Betterbird, too.

Whether it's Betterbird itself, or some odd configuration or setting, I'm inclined to stick with Thunderbird for now, since it's working well.