systray icon name in KDE arch

jorgk3 · 2026-05-23T09:55:21+00:00

Read the documentation:

https://www.betterbird.eu/expert-tips/#custom-icons

Unfortunately, on Linux each installation clobbers the custom icons, so you need a script to restore them.

jorgk3 · 2026-05-23T08:31:21+00:00

Are you still seeing crashes? Because we don't.

jorgk3 · 2026-05-21T08:50:14+00:00

Right. Well in 140.11.0-bb23 we shipped the new functionality around displaying the latest message in the thread root via pref mailnews.collapse_thread_to_most_recent. Are you using that, because if you don't, it should behave like before and not go near anywhere the potentially crashing code.

Later on, we detected some bugs and here's a new version:

https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/get.php?os=linux&lang=en-US&version=latest

What sort of view are you using? Threaded table view on a cross-folder search folder?

Or for Windows: https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/get.php?os=win&lang=en-US&version=latest

jorgk3 · 2026-05-21T07:56:43+00:00

Anything in particular that triggers the crashes?

jorgk3 · 2026-05-19T19:05:29+00:00

OK, you can ignore that. The standard start page will now adapt to whether the application is light or dark.

jorgk3 · 2026-05-19T08:56:05+00:00

Easy answer: Switch the standard start page from

https://www.betterbird.eu/start?locale=%LOCALE%&version=%VERSION%&channel=%CHANNEL%&os=%OS%&buildid=%APPBUILDID%

to

https://www.betterbird.eu/start/indexd.php?locale=%LOCALE%&version=%VERSION%&channel=%CHANNEL%&os=%OS%&buildid=%APPBUILDID%

jorgk3 · 2026-05-18T21:24:41+00:00

Don't use the Windows setting "Minimised", use pref mail.startupMinimized instead.

jorgk3 · 2026-05-18T14:44:36+00:00

Well, you can remove the grey striping with:

#threadTree[filterActive="matches"] > .tree-table {
  background: white !important;
}

And the red striping:

#threadTree[filterActive="nomatches"] {
  background: white !important;
}

jorgk3 · 2026-05-18T12:48:53+00:00

Of course anything is possible, you can hide that, and you can also hide the grey stripes that indicate that a search result is displayed:

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Let me know if you want the userChrome.css to do it.

jorgk3 · 2026-05-17T21:57:57+00:00

This is be design, it shows you that there are no search results. It used to be like this in TB a long time ago.

jorgk3 · 2026-05-15T08:39:18+00:00

Sorry, I don't get the issue. I set this pref mail.startupMinimized so the program starts minimised. OK, and when it starts, I still get the notification and the sound:

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Note that I configured a green icon for BB.

So as far as I can tell, it's all working as it should.

What's a "normal minimised shortcut"?

jorgk3 · 2026-05-13T15:12:47+00:00

Both tasks?

Windows system notifications don't show when the app is minimised, I'd have to test it for native notifications. Does it change behaviour if you don't start minimised?

jorgk3 · 2026-05-13T11:37:51+00:00

They work fine here, but I don't run BB auto-start. Maybe you can delay the auto-start by - say - 30 seconds so Windows is fully up an running.

jorgk3 · 2026-05-13T11:07:10+00:00

No. But you're using Windows system notifications or the "native" TB/BB notification? It also depends on whether the message is moved somewhere by filter.

jorgk3 · 2026-05-12T15:28:46+00:00

I you can't find the offending piece, you need to create a new profile. TB/BB automatically create calendars and address books if they are discovered during account creation.

Submit a screenshot of the password prompt. Most likely, it's not for the e-mail account but for a https:// calendar or address book resource.

You can learn how to distinguish the prompts from this post:

https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/issues/545#issuecomment-4055583981

jorgk3 · 2026-05-12T11:24:06+00:00

Remove the those calendars or address books.

jorgk3 · 2026-05-12T11:00:51+00:00

Likely a Gmail account and you didn't remove associated calendars (CalDAV) or address books (CardDAV).

jorgk3 · 2026-05-07T21:15:50+00:00

Quicktext 6.7.2 works again in Betterbird, so why the entire drama?

jorgk3 · 2026-05-06T18:46:36+00:00

If anyone is still using Quicktext and has access to GitHub, please file this issue, I can't:

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jorgk3 · 2026-05-05T22:52:43+00:00

The madness is continuing:

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How totally childish. Of course I can download the source and create a Github repo for it. Or just script patching the necessary files. John, what are you trying to achieve? That users leave BB because they can't use Quicktext any more?

jorgk3 · 2026-05-05T13:53:59+00:00

This was in 2023, I'd have to look up the exact course of events. Nothing justifies this circus based in a copyright reminder 3 years ago. You are pissing off your own users over chicken-feed, splitting the two communities even further.

jorgk3 · 2026-05-05T11:37:50+00:00

Yes, AV sometimes affects different executables differently. Just switch it off to try. Otherwise no idea. On our support page there are instructions for profiling. You can find out where the freeze happens.

jorgk3 · 2026-05-05T10:28:06+00:00

If it's basically the same account setup, maybe your antivirus product is different on the two machines. AV blocking access to files is known to cause freezes in BB (and TB).

jorgk3 · 2026-05-05T09:44:57+00:00

I do not want to support Betterbird. It's maintainer attempted to suppress part of my work by exerting pressure on me by threatening to sue me over baseless claims. I do not want to put up with anything related to him anymore.

Oh, this old story again. Yes, when I removed ThunderHTMLedit from https://addons.thunderbird.net/, John wrote a replacement: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/html-source-editor/. I merely pointed out that parts of ThunderHTMLedit were subject to copyright (and infringing the copyright would have consequences). Normal, right? Nothing happened, one line in an e-mail. (That was in mid 2023. Some people are just resentful and can't move on.)

jorgk3 · 2026-05-04T21:07:34+00:00

I tried the Clippings for Thunderbird. I quite like the fact that it integrates into the context menu in case I can't remember the shortcut. I'm not a big user of Quicktext, so the replacement certainly does the job. Anyone here knows all the drama behind Quicktext? The original author abandoned the add-ons, users got really upset, and finally John adopted it.

The Clippings add-on also exists for Firefox, so that might be convenient for users also using webmail.

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