Had never heard of this before today. Anyone tried it?
What you’re looking for is Dove:
Dove is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Thunderbird, designed to put the user first - with a focus on privacy, security, freedom, & usability.
Thank you very much! Will definitely take a look. 🙂
Librewolf is a privacy oriented fork of Firefox, it grabs some setting from arkenfox. Betterbird is not a privacy oriented fork of Thunderbird as far as I remember. When I tried it the only thing I was attracted to was its tray support, but as I use non DE compositors, so far wayfire, labwc and sway (tabbed layout), and as there’s currently a Firefox bug, I didn’t see any reason to keep trying it, and now on sway with tabbed layout I see no reason for a tray any ways…
fork and arkenfox
Thanks !
Interesting.
Did you read their website/faq? It very clearly tells me that Betterbird has a very different focus than LibreWolf. It’s not about Privacy, it’s about fixing bugs.
BetterBird is great. I got it running via Birdtray under Cinnamon with some minor tinkering in the birdtray-config.json file.
How did you get it working? I am using the latest Mint with Cinnamon, Betterbird flatpak with Birdtray flatpak. I setup the directory for my two email inboxes and it displays the joint counter on BT icon. However whenever I open BT it opens BB and gives an error and keeps BB open over anything else.
birdtray-config.json
Edit the following strings:
"advanced/tbcmdline": [ "/usr/bin/flatpak-spawn", "--host", "flatpak", "run", "--branch=stable", "--arch=x86_64", "--command=betterbird", "--file-forwarding", "eu.betterbird.Betterbird", "@@u", "%u", "@@" ], "advanced/tbprocessname": "betterbird", "advanced/tbwindowmatch": "Betterbird",In Birdtray under Advanced - Thunderbird command line - call Betterbird as follows:
/usr/bin/flatpak-spawn --host flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=betterbird --file-forwarding eu.betterbird.Betterbird @@u %u @@Thank you, I’ll give it a try
Hopefully we can get a Betterbird mobile app one day.
Try FairEmail. It’s the closest thing I’ve found.
I was looking into k-9 mail and it seemed decent
What stuff did you want to have in a mobile app?
Will it work with K-9/Thunderbird for Android?
The email servers themselves are separate (ex. Gmail, your school email server, work email server, etc.).
Thunderbird / K9 are clients that let you access the email on your device
So they should all be compatible with each other
Ok, duh, you’re both right of course; late night/early morning brain fart here 🧠💨
Are there the same problems with Thunderbird as with Firefox?
The Thunderbird team spent a good chunk of time a few days ago replying everywhere they were mentioned on Mastodon, insisting that the problems did not apply to them:
The Firefox Terms of Use do not apply to Thunderbird or any other products we develop (e.g. Appointment, K-9 Mail)
You can check out their replies here: https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird/with_replies. Lots of the same, or similar, verbiage across replies.
I tried to use LibreWolf yesterday. The Flatpak version wasn’t supported by KeePassXC, so that was a pass for me. The Fedora version did work with it, but it was also freezing my system and causing graphical glitches that were so terrible, I thought my hardware died. There were coloured blocks as well as weird pixelated warping. It’s probably because I have Wayland, and I noticed that the Fedora version ran under X. I would have submitted a bug report, but I didn’t even know where to start. Maybe I’ll do that eventually.
E: I have narrowed this down with journalctl to be an issue with amdgpu. This happenes on Firefox as well, but not other applications somehow. It’s something to do with a gfxhub page fault. I’ll have to see whether an older kernel version might help.
Truly the year of the Linux desktop
