Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition 2.0.0.18 Revision 2 has been released in English, Italian, German, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. It's the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app. This minor update fixes a bug where multilingual extensions would show up in English within non-English packages of Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.
Features
Mozilla 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...
New In This Release
In addition to the 2.0.0.18 updates (included Thunderbird updated to 2.0.0.18 (release notes), launcher updated to improve cleanup of empty profile/profiles directories and unreadmail keys that were previously deleted and installer now preserves any installed GPG binaries) this revision fixes an issue where non-English packages would display multilingual extensions in English. The English build has just had a version update to keep it consistent with the other builds. Users of the English package do not need to upgrade from 2.0.0.18.
GPG 1.4.9
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, 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 from Thunderbird Portable 1.5 & 2.0 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 Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition is available for immediate download from the Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition homepage. You can get the German release from the German homepage and the French, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese releases from the Localization page. Get it today!
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Comments
This is awesome stuff but..
.. instead of having the Portable Apps menu with different package configurations, how about having some useful add-on's such as thunderbrowse etc.
Can't
You can't distribute Thunderbird with extensions preloaded. And the end user can just as easily add them to the portable version as they can to the local version.
Hi John
Is this to do with GPL or would all those other devs need to be onboard, I'm supposing the former.
Licensing
It's to do with licensing. We have an agreement with Mozilla making it legal for us to package our portable versions and use their trademarks. But it doesn't allow for extensions (which makes sense as they want a consistent end user experience).
Plus, it goes against one of our goals which is to keep the portable versions close to the local versions mainly only making changes that enhance portability. Rarely we'll venture further (see CoolPlayer) in which case we made it clear with a slight name change and making it clear on the app homepage.
Its due to
the License agreement PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) has with Mozilla. And the normal version doesn't have any extensions preloaded, so why should we?
EDIT: John was faster
Fashion Your Firefox
The Mozilla community just started to offer packages of selected extensions, many more will follow:
http://fashionyourfirefox.com/
If you want to participate, just suggest user-generated extension packs, for example like a shopping basket in the current AMO (addons.mozilla.org) user interface.
Contact AMO through the Wiki / IRC
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Update
or on a blog, i.e.
http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/08/04/amo-roadmap-directions-firefox-...
Or start a community project on
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
THX John ...
... the fix works fine.
Extensions (including enigmail) are localised again and GPG is alive
strange
In the 2.0.0.18 releases, the unreadmail keys are still being left behind when they didn't exist at the start.
This still happening for anyone else?
Is there any way I can install a localized?
I need to install a pt-br localized version of thunderbird for a friend.
I didn't find out how to do it since that lang pack isn't available for download at the add-on site.
Any hints?
yes there is
the portugese lang pack is available here.
How do we report bugs and downgrade?
The offline features in this release are severely broken. How do we report bugs? Also, how do we downgrade to an earlier version? The download page only lists the current version, without any links to the previous versions.
Ray