Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition 2.0.0.22 Released

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on June 22, 2009 - 8:50pm

Thunderbird logoMozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition 2.0.0.22 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 release updates Mozilla Thunderbird to 2.0.0.22, has an improved installer and adds Windows 7 support. 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.

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Features

portable_thunderbird_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...

New In This Release

The included Thunderbird has been updated to 2.0.0.22 (release notes), Windows 7 support has been added and an improved installer is used.

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 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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richard.a's picture

A caution to everybody, if I may.

I was prompted by Mozilla to take advantage of this Thunderbird update from ver .0.21 earlier today, and it killed the application completely after screwing up the update.

The update a while ago from .0.20 to .0.21 had worked without a hitch.

That does not necessarily mean that it will kill yours, of course.

I had to jump through hoops with removing every vestige, and then reinstalling 2.0.0.21 from scratch, which worked.

Fortunately it didn't remove the email storage directory.

Richard

Have you noticed editing is always needed for the inevitable typos that weren't there when you hit the "post" button?

That is because you let it auto-update (something you shouldnt do with Portable Apps from Mozilla).

There is a note about this on the Firefox page. There should be one here, too.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

John T. Haller's picture

This is not a bug related to it being portable. It's a bug related to Thunderbird's updater and certain profiles. It happened to my buddy on his local install last night.

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

My apologies. I thought it was the standard Mozilla-auto-updater-thing...

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Actually, no. It prompted me that there was one. I made the calculated mistake of accepting it.

Have you noticed editing is always needed for the inevitable typos that weren't there when you hit the "post" button?