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Downloads:

21,473

Downloads of v 128.10.0:

460

Last Update:

29 Apr 2025

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Betterbird Project

Tags:

betterbird thunderbird email foss cross-platform

Betterbird

This is not the latest version of Betterbird available.

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128.10.0 | Updated: 29 Apr 2025

Downloads:

21,473

Downloads of v 128.10.0:

460

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Betterbird Project

Betterbird 128.10.0

This is not the latest version of Betterbird available.

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'" --version="'128.10.0'" [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'" --version="'128.10.0'" 
$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: '128.10.0'
    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  '128.10.0'
end

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


cChocoPackageInstaller betterbird
{
    Name     = "betterbird"
    Version  = "128.10.0"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

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


package { 'betterbird':
  ensure   => '128.10.0',
  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 30 Apr 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 = '128.10.0esr-bb26'

$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|2833eac46325b967620d215dd0a008b2ac8dec04cfe68b529418e36230fab4b8
en-US|44d64ae1a64c4476cca3408e58c3eb9d92c8b327894e00aeebac679a5dac414e
es-AR|535aec8bf33d8f7679a31d4449aa18d6fb45723cc2047fc45cbac942911c0743
fr|ffae596a0ff6f3cd774b77dcfcec67f7a5b6eaf8d8e93618d7a7629eef00ca52
it|fd250e1656bafad7602a387aea935f94ccc3eb05752bedfc01875b08c76748de
ja|271498c677da317b8060ae1975411217d29241974bf09a1ee6e7b8aba7bf3e55
nl|1810005274a01b1b76431edda79a980846b4ff99db402a0f1b59564cf8a5bd53
pt-BR|6d0008eaff548c6968d0d8b8ea1aeec2ae286b58b64a3be0ae78e83f2a515df3
ru|94d5272c818db5ab47201a71a4f67a9c158b33fba8f861cf40ac24ea89c58177

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Betterbird 102.14.0 206 Tuesday, August 1, 2023 Approved
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Betterbird 102.11.1 225 Thursday, May 25, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.11.0.1 209 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Approved
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Betterbird 102.10.1 243 Tuesday, April 25, 2023 Approved
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Betterbird 102.9.1 246 Tuesday, March 28, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.9.0 235 Tuesday, March 14, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.8.0 276 Monday, February 13, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.7.1 190 Tuesday, January 31, 2023 Approved
Betterbird 102.7.0 327 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 102.5.0 190 Wednesday, November 16, 2022 Approved
Betterbird 102.4.2 165 Friday, November 4, 2022 Approved
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