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What is Mozilla Thunderbird?
Mozilla Thunderbird is a mail & news client based on Netscape Gecko and Mozilla MailNews. It is a free, standard-compliant and user-friendly product.
Mozilla Thunderbird has a lot of great features over the normal MailNews program: Customizable toolbars, extensions management, themes, etc.
Here are some other useful links about Mozilla Thunderbird:
- Mozilla Thunderbird home page
- Mozilla Thunderbird Help: Help, news, FAQ, extensions and themes for Mozilla Thunderbird
- Mozilla Thunderbird Forums
- Mozilla Thunderbird Roadmap
If you need help (don't know how to install plugins, what is an extension, etc.) you can read the help site (with the Mozilla Thunderbird FAQ, some tips, all the keyboard shortcuts, themes, etc.) maintained by David Tenser. It's very useful and often updated.
You may also want Mozilla Thunderbird to have a different look. If so, just go to the themes sections of Mozilla Thunderbird Help.
The installer
The official Mozilla Thunderbird releases and nightly builds for Windows are currently only offered in zipped version. Since I think it isn't the more user-friendly way to install a program, I've made a Windows™ installer for Mozilla Thunderbird, using NSIS.
Here are some of the features of the installer:
- User-friendly interface
- Smaller file to download
- If you update Mozilla Thunderbird with the installer, it remembers where you installed your previous version
- Warns the user if he tries to install an older (or the same) build than the one currently installed
- Possibility to add shortcut icons to the desktop, the Quicklaunch folder or the Start menu
- Uninstaller (which can remove your Mozilla Thunderbird profiles too)
Download
If you want to download and install Mozilla Thunderbird, follow the links in the "Download Thunderbird" section. Milestone releases are official releases.
Download Mozilla Thunderbird
Note: If you receive a 404 error when clicking the links - it is not because the installer is not uploaded, it is because the files are not yet mirrored to all the servers, by mozdev.org.
The following files are what I use to make the installer. You don't need them, unless you want to make an installer for your program too.
Installation scripts
| Scripts | |
| Filename | Date |
| installer.nsi | 2003/08/11 - 09:42:56 |
| installer.macros.nsh | 2003/08/21 - 09:29:28 |
| installer.italian.nsh | 2003/08/08 - 04:20:00 |
| installer.german.nsh | 2003/08/21 - 09:29:28 |
| installer.functions.nsh | 2003/08/11 - 09:42:56 |
| installer.french.nsh | 2003/08/21 - 09:29:28 |
| installer.english.nsh | 2003/08/21 - 09:29:28 |
| installer.dutch.nsh | 2003/09/06 - 14:44:57 |
| installer.conf.nsh | 2003/08/21 - 09:29:28 |
| Docs | |
| Filename | Date |
| README.txt | 2003/08/01 - 11:19:30 |
You can also find these files in Mozdev.org's WebCVS:
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/seb/www/thunderbird/.
FAQ
- Does the (un)installer remove my old profile, mails, accounts, password, etc.?Yes!
- What are the tools used to make the installer?I use NSIS 2.0 cvs to compile the installation script, UPX 1.2.4 and LZMA package the installer itself. It makes a really tiny installer. Both are free software.
- Why an installer? zipped builds are easy enough to install.The installer has a better compression ratio (it uses the bzip2 compression, which is better than the zip compression), so the file to download is smaller. Moreover, I think it's a more user-friendly way to install programs. And I like having the icon automatically added to my Quicklaunch folder.
- Why aren't your builds on mozilla.org's ftp?Because they are not official (ie. not part of the Mozilla Thunderbird project, and therefore not supported by mozilla.org).
- I found a bug in Mozilla Thunderbird, where do I report it?You can report bugs by using BugZilla. Please remember Mozilla Thunderbird still largely uses the Mozilla MailNews source. So a bug in Mozilla Thunderbird might in fact be a bug in MailNews. Please do an extensive search before filing bugs.
- I found a bug in the installer, where do I report it?Please email me with the date of your build (or the version number).
- Can I use your installation scripts for another program?Yes, feel free to do so. However you should maintain the names inside the source, for later credit
- Where is Seb?Seb, the guy who created the Mozilla Firebird Installer, is a little too busy to maintain the Thunderbird installer. And because I myself was a big Mozilla Thunderbird fan, I wanted to help out and make an installer to Thunderbird
- Okay, so who are you?My name is Tom Sommer. If you're still in need of more information, you can visit my blog, dreamcoder.dk or tsn.dk
- How can I contact you?You can email me here.