Yes. I got the donations request once. I use profiles (Mary and I like to be able to take just one
machine on vacations, and I also have some special emails for clubs etc.), so get the chooser each
time. If I'm correct, both BBird and TBird remember which one was used last so is just an Enter on
the keyboard. Betterbird seems to use the .thunderbird profiles OK. And I've tried switching between
Thunderbird and Betterbird without issues (so far!!!). From your experiment, it seems Betterbird
doesn't want to look in .betterbird, though there's probably a way to force that.
JN
On 2026-07-05 10:03, Jean-Francois Messier via linux wrote:
I tried this (actually -P) as well as --profile. the -P prompts me for a profile from a short list. AS for the --profile
option, I tried to copy the .thunderbird entire subtree to something like .betterbird then pointing to it with the --
profile param, and it comes with an empty profile. quitting and then checking in ~/.betterbird, I see names such as
7d8f92j.default, 2j38djf.default-release, etc..... names which I recognize from the prompts when starting BB with only
the -p param.
Not sure how those profiles work under either Thunderbird or BetterBird......
I also noticed than when I start it, it opens another tab in my browser for Betterbird site, asking for donations.
JFM
On 2026-07-04 09:20, Nash JC - NCF via linux wrote:
Oops. I forgot that I started from terminal using
betterbird -p
to point to the profiles.
JN
On 2026-07-04 09:17, Jean-Francois Messier via linux wrote:
Strange.......... When I opened it, it asked me for my first email account info. I guess I did not run any install,
but just ran the executable once the archive was extracted............................... But thanks for tis. I will
do an actual installation and see. I noticed there is a script on the BBird site as well.
Thanks again !!!
JFM
On 2026-07-04 09:14, Nash JC - NCF via linux wrote:
Thanks for pointer to bug.
Last night I happened to open TBird on a secondary machine and on a whim tested the search
and did NOT get the problem. So maybe some weird configuration or corruption issue. I didn't
check version numbers (yet), but do allow updates as soon as they appear on notification panel.
However, I plan to keep using BetterBird for a while.
To answer JFM, I didn't have to do anything to get my setup active in BetterBird. It doesn't
set up a .betterbird directory but actually goes to the .thunderbird one and uses profile(s)
there.
JN
On 2026-07-04 05:57, Ron via linux wrote:
Nash JC - NCF via linux wrote on 2026-07-03 12:04:
I don't know if non-Linux versions of Thunderbird also suffer from this bug --
in searching for it I was unable to find anything I thought relevant.
This might not be entirely relevant, but an old TB search bug:
> have global search support exact matching (disabling stemming). ex: Searching for 'wedding' finds 'weds'
> Bug 752844 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752844> Opened 14 years ago Updated 3 months ago
I really thought there was a comment saying they'd be working on rebuilding the search, but I can't find it now.
Every episode of Thundercast (Thunderbird podcast), I hope to hear something about this. Still waiting.
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