Downloads:
22,625
Downloads of v 128.12.0:
119
Last Update:
29 Jun 2025
Package Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Betterbird Project
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Betterbird
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128.12.0 | Updated: 29 Jun 2025
- Software Specific:
- Software Site
- Software Source
- Software License
- Software Docs
- Software Issues
- Package Specific:
- Package Source
- Package outdated?
- Package broken?
- Contact Maintainers
- Contact Site Admins
- Software Vendor?
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- Download
Downloads:
22,625
Downloads of v 128.12.0:
119
Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Betterbird Project
Betterbird 128.12.0
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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All Checks are Passing
3 Passing Tests
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:
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
Option 1: Cached Package (Unreliable, Requires Internet - Same As Community)-
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
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Open Source
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Download the package:
Download - Follow manual internalization instructions
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Package Internalizer (C4B)
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Run: (additional options)
choco download betterbird --internalize --source=https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/
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For package and dependencies run:
choco push --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'"
- Automate package internalization
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Run: (additional options)
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: '128.12.0'
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 '128.12.0'
end
See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.
cChocoPackageInstaller betterbird
{
Name = "betterbird"
Version = "128.12.0"
Source = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}
Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.
package { 'betterbird':
ensure => '128.12.0',
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.
This package was approved as a trusted package on 30 Jun 2025.
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:
- If Betterbird is already installed: the same language as the already installed Betterbird.
- The Windows system language where the Betterbird package gets installed.
- Language Culture code specified on Mozilla website (only when
/UseMozillaFallback
is specified). - If Betterbird does not support the system language, it will fallback to
en-US
.
$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)"}
}
# 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
}
de|839df77eb6fdacc0a5c2fc990d57de4666d2bc34b097bbf529aacdf3713cb95e
en-US|4638d28c8ea8ce941bf45ece2b9a8c6b7067014276c42e054b5d7516fe07a8bb
es-AR|f94745a519f76eea95286dac980cc72bd7534370c6dd492b22efd9368caffce3
fr|2fd91bedeb86b89abab46252a0bad62184afc9346366cb2f441bf62684da4168
it|4137547bd1f71d3943cc65aab881dfa34e9dcb97abc2c0644904d5021efc22cb
ja|ed7ab765372f6062e8434892da213e281370f5ca6730668b9677e881991fdb1c
nl|599a8e5ff8eb84aef0e6686ad950d649f9b2e8c66392079390d7b039d096f3eb
pt-BR|c85c9191a6f39bb30e9bfe77cc492e965f8c4eddb1a621c929f10560db747f11
ru|66d86da25234c93b1a435bd8dd141c3c8e21db2d163267fb0b81204982d49cc6
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Add to Builder | Version | Downloads | Last Updated | Status |
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Betterbird 128.12.0 | 119 | Sunday, June 29, 2025 | Approved | |
Betterbird 128.11.0 | 731 | Monday, May 26, 2025 | Approved | |
Betterbird 128.10.1.1 | 435 | Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | Approved | |
Betterbird 128.10.1 | 123 | Tuesday, May 13, 2025 | Approved | |
Betterbird 128.10.0 | 465 | Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | Approved | |
Betterbird 128.9.2 | 456 | Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | Approved | |
Betterbird 128.9.0 | 532 | Tuesday, April 1, 2025 | Approved | |
Betterbird 128.8.0 | 731 | Monday, March 3, 2025 | Approved | |
Betterbird 128.7.0 | 604 | Wednesday, February 5, 2025 | Approved | |
Betterbird 128.6.1 | 399 | Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | Approved | |
Betterbird 128.6.0 | 434 | Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | Approved | |
Betterbird 128.5.2 | 552 | Sunday, December 15, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.18.0.1 | 475 | Tuesday, November 26, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.18.0 | 211 | Monday, November 25, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.17.0 | 649 | Sunday, October 27, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.16.1 | 463 | Thursday, October 10, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.16.0 | 333 | Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.15.0 | 559 | Tuesday, September 3, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.14.0 | 534 | Monday, August 5, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.13.0 | 473 | Monday, July 8, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.12.0 | 464 | Monday, June 10, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.11.0 | 474 | Monday, May 13, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.10.0.1 | 413 | Tuesday, April 23, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.10.0 | 644 | Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.9.0 | 417 | Friday, March 29, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.8.1 | 423 | Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.8.0 | 342 | Wednesday, February 21, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.7.0 | 421 | Monday, January 22, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.6.1 | 297 | Monday, January 8, 2024 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.6.0 | 311 | Tuesday, December 19, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.5.2 | 194 | Tuesday, December 12, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.5.1.2 | 290 | Tuesday, November 28, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.5.1 | 101 | Monday, November 27, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.5.0 | 217 | Tuesday, November 21, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.4.2 | 296 | Monday, November 6, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.4.0 | 266 | Tuesday, October 24, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.3.2 | 276 | Tuesday, October 10, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 115.3.1 | 183 | Thursday, October 5, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.15.1 | 280 | Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.15.0 | 235 | Tuesday, August 29, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.14.0.20230804 | 299 | Friday, August 4, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.14.0 | 210 | Tuesday, August 1, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.13.0 | 650 | Wednesday, July 5, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.12.0 | 299 | Tuesday, June 6, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.11.1 | 227 | Thursday, May 25, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.11.0.1 | 213 | Sunday, May 14, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.11.0 | 209 | Monday, May 8, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.10.1 | 244 | Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.10.0 | 239 | Monday, April 10, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.9.1 | 247 | Tuesday, March 28, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.9.0 | 236 | Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.8.0 | 277 | Monday, February 13, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.7.1 | 190 | Tuesday, January 31, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.7.0 | 328 | Monday, January 16, 2023 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.6.1 | 239 | Wednesday, December 21, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.6.0 | 163 | Tuesday, December 13, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.5.1 | 164 | Thursday, December 1, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.5.0 | 192 | Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.4.2 | 166 | Friday, November 4, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.4.1 | 146 | Thursday, October 27, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.4.0 | 136 | Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.3.3 | 139 | Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.3.2 | 140 | Thursday, October 6, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.3.1 | 125 | Thursday, September 29, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.3.0 | 140 | Wednesday, September 21, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.2.2 | 122 | Wednesday, September 7, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 102.2.1 | 79 | Wednesday, September 7, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 91.13.0 | 134 | Monday, August 22, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 91.12.0 | 145 | Sunday, July 24, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 91.11.0 | 151 | Saturday, June 25, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 91.10.0 | 144 | Thursday, June 2, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 91.9.1 | 86 | Saturday, May 21, 2022 | Approved | |
Betterbird 91.9.0 | 114 | Sunday, May 8, 2022 | Approved |
Betterbird Project
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