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Downloads:

23,908

Downloads of v 128.13.0:

535

Last Update:

24 Jul 2025

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Betterbird Project

Tags:

Betterbird

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128.13.0 | Updated: 24 Jul 2025

Downloads:

23,908

Downloads of v 128.13.0:

535

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Betterbird Project

Betterbird 128.13.0

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Betterbird Project. The inclusion of Betterbird Project trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Betterbird Project goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Betterbird, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Betterbird, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Betterbird, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade betterbird -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade betterbird -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install betterbird
  win_chocolatey:
    name: betterbird
    version: '128.13.0'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'betterbird' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '128.13.0'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller betterbird
{
    Name     = "betterbird"
    Version  = "128.13.0"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'betterbird':
  ensure   => '128.13.0',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 25 Jul 2025.

Description

Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will.

Betterbird is better than Thunderbird in three ways: It contains new features exclusive to Betterbird, it contains bug fixes exclusive to Betterbird and it contains fixes that Thunderbird may ship at a later stage.

Package Parameters

  • /l:LOCALE - Install given Betterbird locale. See the official page for a complete list of available locales.
  • /UseMozillaFallback Makes a request to mozilla.org and reads the supported Language Culture code from the website.

Examples

choco install betterbird --params "/l=de"

Notes

  • If locale package parameter is not present, this package installs Betterbird in the first language which matches this list:
    1. If Betterbird is already installed: the same language as the already installed Betterbird.
    2. The Windows system language where the Betterbird package gets installed.
    3. Language Culture code specified on Mozilla website (only when /UseMozillaFallback is specified).
    4. If Betterbird does not support the system language, it will fallback to en-US.

tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'

$toolsPath = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
. $toolsPath\helpers.ps1

$softwareName = 'Betterbird'
$fullVersion = '128.13.0esr-bb31'

$locale = 'en-US' #https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey-coreteampackages/issues/933
$locale = GetLocale -localeFile "$toolsPath\LanguageChecksums.csv" -product $softwareName

$urlPrefix = 'https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/WindowsInstaller/'
$downloadFileName = 'betterbird-{0}.{1}.win64.installer.exe' -f $fullVersion, $locale
$url = "{0}{1}" -f $urlPrefix, $downloadFileName

$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$stream = $null

try {
  $stream = $wc.OpenRead($url)
} catch {
  Write-Host "It appears that a new version of Betterbird already has been released, using the archive URL."
  $url = "{0}Previous/{1}" -f $urlPrefix, $downloadFileName
} finally {
  if ($null -ne $stream ){
    $stream.Close()
  }
}

$checksum = GetChecksum -language $locale -checksumFile "$toolsPath\LanguageChecksums.csv"

$packageArgs = @{
  packageName    = 'betterbird'
  fileType       = 'exe'
  softwareName   = 'Betterbird'

  checksum       = $checksum
  checksumType   = 'sha256'
  url            = $url

  silentArgs     = '-ms'
  validExitCodes = @(0)
}

Install-ChocolateyPackage @packageArgs
tools\chocolateyUninstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop';

$packageName = 'betterbird'

$uninstalled = $false
[array]$key = Get-UninstallRegistryKey -SoftwareName 'Betterbird*'

if ($key.Count -eq 1) {
  $key | ForEach-Object {
    $packageArgs = @{
      packageName = $packageName
      fileType    = 'exe'
      silentArgs  = '-ms'
      validExitCodes= @(0)
      file          = "$($_.UninstallString.Trim('"'))"
    }

    Uninstall-ChocolateyPackage @packageArgs

    Write-Warning "Auto Uninstaller may detect Mozilla Maintenance Service."
    Write-Warning "This should not be uninstalled if any other Mozilla product is installed."
  }
} elseif ($key.Count -eq 0) {
  Write-Warning "$packageName has already been uninstalled by other means."
} elseif ($key.Count -gt 1) {
  Write-Warning "$($key.Count) matches found!"
  Write-Warning "To prevent accidental data loss, no programs will be uninstalled."
  Write-Warning "Please alert package maintainer the following keys were matched:"
  $key | ForEach-Object {Write-Warning "- $($_.DisplayName)"}
}
tools\helpers.ps1
# Inspired from https://github.com/chocolatey-community/chocolatey-packages/blob/master/automatic/firefox/tools/helpers.ps1
function GetUninstallPath() {
  param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    [string]$product
  )
  $regUninstallDir = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\'
  $regUninstallDirWow64 = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\'

  $uninstallPaths = $(Get-ChildItem $regUninstallDir).Name

  if (Test-Path $regUninstallDirWow64) {
    $uninstallPaths += $(Get-ChildItem $regUninstallDirWow64).Name
  }

  $uninstallPath = $uninstallPaths -match "$product [\d\.]+ \([^\s]+ [a-zA-Z\-]+\)" | Select-Object -First 1
  return $uninstallPath
}

function GetLocale {
  param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    [string]$localeFile,
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    [string]$product
  )
  
  $availableLocales = Get-Content $localeFile | ForEach-Object { $_ -split '\|' | Select-Object -First 1 } | Select-Object -Unique
  Write-Debug "$($availableLocales.Count) locales are stored.`n$availableLocales"

  $PackageParameters = Get-PackageParameters

  if ($PackageParameters['l']) {
    $localeFromPackageParameters = $PackageParameters['l']
    Write-Verbose "User chooses '$localeFromPackageParameters' as a locale..."
    $localeFromPackageParametersTwoLetter = $localeFromPackageParameters -split '\-' | Select-Object -First 1
    Write-Verbose "With fallback to '$localeFromPackageParametersTwoLetter' as locale..."
  }

  $uninstallPath = GetUninstallPath -product $product

  $alreadyInstalledLocale = $uninstallPath -replace '.+\s([a-zA-Z\-]+)\)', '$1'
  Write-Verbose "Installed locale is: '$alreadyInstalledLocale'..."

  $systemLocalizeAndCountry = (Get-UICulture).Name
  $systemLocaleThreeLetter = (Get-UICulture).ThreeLetterWindowsLanguageName
  $systemLocaleTwoLetter = (Get-UICulture).TwoLetterISOLanguageName

  # Never change the fallback locale here, this is the absolute
  # value we always expect to fall back to when nothing else is
  # found.
  $fallbackLocale = $mozillaFallback = 'en-US'
  if ($PackageParameters['UseMozillaFallback']) {
    Write-Verbose "System locale is: '$systemLocalizeAndCountry'..."
    # We need to use web content instead of web headers here, due to
    # web header helper does not allow custom headers.
    $urlParts = @( 'htt', 'mozilla' )
    $Response = Get-WebContent -url "$($urlParts[0])ps://www.$($urlParts[1]).org/" -Options @{ Headers = @{ 'Accept-Language' = $systemLocalizeAndCountry } } -ErrorAction Ignore 2>$null
    # The lang attribute on the html element will be the closest
    # supported language when comparing to the system locale.
    # As such we use that as an additional fallback when possible.
    if ($Response -match 'lang="(?<locale>[^"]+)"') {
      $mozillaFallback = $Matches['locale']
      Write-Verbose "Mozilla fallback locale is: '$mozillaFallback'..."
    }
    else {
      Write-Warning 'No fallback found using the Mozilla website.'
    }
  }

  Write-Verbose "Absolute Fallback locale is: '$fallbackLocale'..."

  $locales = $localeFromPackageParameters, $localeFromPackageParametersTwoLetter, `
    $alreadyInstalledLocale, $systemLocalizeAndCountry, $systemLocaleThreeLetter, `
    $systemLocaleTwoLetter, $mozillaFallback, $fallbackLocale

  foreach ($locale in $locales) {
    Write-Debug "Testing locale $locale of whether we have the information or not"
    $localeMatch = $availableLocales | Where-Object { $_ -eq $locale } | Select-Object -First 1
    if ($localeMatch -and $locale -ne $null) {
      Write-Host "Using locale '$locale'..."
      break
    }
  }

  return $locale
}

function AlreadyInstalled() {
  param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    [string]$product,
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    [string]$version
  )
  $uninstallEntry = $(
    "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\$product $version*"
  )
  $uninstallEntryWow64 = $(
    "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\$product $version*"
  )

  if ((Test-Path $uninstallEntry) -or (Test-Path $uninstallEntryWow64)) {
    return $true
  }

  return $false
}

function GetChecksum() {
  param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    [string]$language,
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    $checksumFile
  )
  Write-Debug "Loading checksums from: $checksumFile"
  $checksumContent = Get-Content $checksumFile
  $checksum = ($checksumContent -match "$language\|") -split '\|' | Select-Object -Last 1

  return $checksum
}
tools\LanguageChecksums.csv
de|940e78f5ab8bdd59e547146c02ca01538568e585cc67213805889dcc0f830963
en-US|5b8f28734f1266d91e02028fa2cb8e5968e7feff438441e220b1247ac4712d81
es-AR|2e89c7035a91d603f71771f5588df76ab99d8913bf3fe16c1b902a4098e1f25c
fr|69ee03aee2942bec6658ec25ae6e6cd4064dc914f25a7e04cb6f835d9439962e
it|e93d7bc59bdfe8894c5b76c7690c40582a3da76d92b9b2bff2aaea6cad7e3fcb
ja|a90691019be802bd724ad168687632dfedf8942f3fd406a9b6f66b1d38b7281a
nl|88f357b9dd0d3ca6463e06a8b94df9b236fe36e59ea0fd80f77e84d804dc85f0
pt-BR|2d4cbc15c4dd0ce05df393f3b66ba7aa391699db220bc6ad3401f5326788685c
ru|71f1d1b20188e65f564d6c8eb1677aed99bec09b8e298d897a11f9ee29f93fb4

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Betterbird 102.15.1 286 Wednesday, September 13, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.15.0 238 Tuesday, August 29, 2023 Approved
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Betterbird 102.14.0 215 Tuesday, August 1, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.13.0 653 Wednesday, July 5, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.12.0 300 Tuesday, June 6, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.11.1 230 Thursday, May 25, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.11.0.1 217 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.11.0 211 Monday, May 8, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.10.1 245 Tuesday, April 25, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.10.0 241 Monday, April 10, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.9.1 249 Tuesday, March 28, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.9.0 237 Tuesday, March 14, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.8.0 278 Monday, February 13, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.7.1 194 Tuesday, January 31, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.7.0 331 Monday, January 16, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.6.1 242 Wednesday, December 21, 2022 Approved
Betterbird 102.6.0 166 Tuesday, December 13, 2022 Approved
Betterbird 102.5.1 166 Thursday, December 1, 2022 Approved
Betterbird 102.5.0 195 Wednesday, November 16, 2022 Approved
Betterbird 102.4.2 168 Friday, November 4, 2022 Approved
Betterbird 102.4.1 146 Thursday, October 27, 2022 Approved
Betterbird 102.4.0 140 Tuesday, October 18, 2022 Approved
Betterbird 102.3.3 141 Wednesday, October 12, 2022 Approved
Betterbird 102.3.2 143 Thursday, October 6, 2022 Approved
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Betterbird 91.12.0 151 Sunday, July 24, 2022 Approved
Betterbird 91.11.0 152 Saturday, June 25, 2022 Approved
Betterbird 91.10.0 146 Thursday, June 2, 2022 Approved
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