Mozilla Thunderbird ESR, Portable Edition 10.0.11 (email client) Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on November 22, 2012 - 1:49pm

Thunderbird logoMozilla Thunderbird ESR, Portable Edition 10.0.11 has been released. It's the Extended Support Release of the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you. It is intended for groups who deploy and maintain the desktop environment in large organizations such as universities and other schools, county or city governments and businesses and the developers who support them. Individual users should use standard Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition for everyday use. It's a great way to test out extensions and mailings in multiple versions of Thunderbird. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

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Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.

Features

portablethunderbird_small.pngMozilla Thunderbird is the safe, fast email client that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more. Plus, the portable version leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your email and adress book with you wherever you go. Learn more about Mozilla Thunderbird...

GPG 1.4.10

GPG, in conjunction with the Enigmail extension, allows you to sign and encrypt your email. Learn more about GPG and Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition.

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

Mozilla Thunderbird ESR, Portable Edition is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all your email and settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

Mozilla Thunderbird ESR, Portable Edition is available for immediate download from the Mozilla Thunderbird ESR, Portable Edition homepage. Get it today!

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I'm still using the ESR versions and after every new release, I hardly wait for the new ESR. Thanks a lot, John, for the fast work!

Hello,

I have read the link, but i have a question : do you think it will be possibe to update esr10.0.x to esr17.0.x by the update option of thunberdird (in feb. or mars if i understand) or we will restart an install from a new esr17.0.0 ?

Merci Wink

John T. Haller's picture

If you want 17.0, why not just use TB stable? They're exactly the same thing. You lose any benefit of ESR by upgrading to 17 early. Remember, ESR isn't updated any less often than stable. It's just designed for corporations and universities to target larger apps to as the feature target moves more slowly.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

I Want to stay with my ESR... because we can't choose an update canal ONLY for bug fixed and safety with the "stable" version...and you have to accept many evolution that you don't want or do problem with the update, or safety problem if you use in nomad (cyber-coffee ; administration fee...)

And 14 or 15 (don't remenber) fixed a really annoying bug (the crash on startup if you don't put the master code in the first minute after launch...if you have many account)

So even if i prefer to stay with this ESR i have to update, but i want to stay with esr...

Thank you

John T. Haller's picture

Even if you stay with ESR, all the changes of the stable branch will be pushed to you just a bit delayed. As an end user ESR gains you nearly nothing. It updates just as often and you still get the major changes a few months later (along with any concern about broken extensions). In the future, please keep this in mind as requests to move to a specific ESR version will not be honored. ESR will always stay on the version behind until stable moves to the later version (in this case, ESR stays on 10.x even though a 17.x is available until stable moves to 18.x). This will not change. If you want the latest bug fixes and feature improvements, you should be on stable. From Mozilla itself, ESR is only for large organizations like corporations or universities targeting apps to work with it or testing it for rollouts, it is not for end users.

That said, stable just hit 18.0, so ESR is moving to 17.0 and will stay there until stable hits 25.0.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!