Thunderbird Portable 1.5.0.5 Pre-Release - Testers Urgently Needed
I've just posted a pre-release of Thunderbird Portable 1.5.0.5. The new features are:
In-Place Upgrades - Thunderbird Portable now supports the ability to do what I'm calling an "in-place upgrade". This means that you can extract it right over an existing installation of Thunderbird Portable without losing any of your existing data and it'll Just Work (tm).
Live CD Support - Thunderbird Portable 1.5.0.5 now has built in support for running from a CD or other read-only medium (aka Thunderbird Portable Live). You just need to grab the INI from the Other\ThunderbirdPortableSource and drop it next to ThunderbirdPortable.exe. Edit it and set RunLocally to true. Just be sure to run ThunderbirdPortable.exe at least once BEFORE setting both these options so that it correctly sets up a default profile. Your thunderbird, profile, registry, gpg and plugins directories will be copied to the local machine's temp directory and Thunderbird Portable will execute from there. When you exit, all the temp files will be cleaned up.