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Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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LibreWolf is to Firefox what BetterBird is to Thunderbird?

www.betterbird.eu

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LibreWolf is to Firefox what BetterBird is to Thunderbird?

www.betterbird.eu

Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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Betterbird. Simply better.
www.betterbird.eu
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Betterbird. Simply better. A soft fork of Mozilla Thunderbird

Had never heard of this before today. Anyone tried it?

EDIT: “Being a fork of Mozilla Thunderbird, the software collects some data about the user, less than the original Mozilla Thunderbird, as outlined in Thunderbird’s privacy statement. No data is submitted to Betterbird, some data may be submitted to Mozilla. No telemetry and no crash reports are submitted, however, add-on updates and blocklists are downloaded from Mozilla sites. Betterbird offers a product Start Page which processes access data as described above.”

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  • kixik@lemmy.ml
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    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…

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      fork and arkenfox

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        Thanks !

  • Despotic Machine@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    BetterBird is great. I got it running via Birdtray under Cinnamon with some minor tinkering in the birdtray-config.json file.

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    Hopefully we can get a Betterbird mobile app one day.

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      Try FairEmail. It’s the closest thing I’ve found.

      https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.email/

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      Will it work with K-9/Thunderbird for Android?

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        What do you mean “work with”, it’s a different-ass client? Do you mean if it’s possible to import settings?

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    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.

    https://codeberg.org/celenity/Dove

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      Thank you very much! Will definitely take a look. 🙂

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    No. Betterbird adds random features.

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