Stormhen portable

• About
• Installation
  • Upgrade
• Infos
  • Modifications
  • Configuration
• Known issues
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About

Stormhen portable app made with Portapps.
Run Mozilla Thunderbird as a portable app.

Installation

Download and install the latest portable setup where you want then run stormhen-portable.exe.

If you have already installed Thunderbird from the original setup, move the following files :

• %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\*.default\* to data\profile\default

Then run stormhen-portable.exe and remove Thunderbird from your computer.

Upgrade

For an upgrade, simply download and install the latest portable setup.

Infos

Following a trademark violation report (#4) from Mozilla, Thunderbird portable has been named Stormhen portable on Portapps. Nothing changes except its name.

Modifications

Some modifications have been made through distribution preferences to ensure portability:

• Multilingual : All languages are included in app/langs and can be enabled in config file (see below).
• Disable updater : Thunderbird updates are turned off.
• Don’t check default mail client : Stops Thunderbird from checking if it is the default mail client at startup.
• Profile: Profile path is overrided to data\profile folder.
• Disable WinSearch integration: Don’t use Windows Search to search for emails.
• Add-ons: Thunderbird’s modern extension handling is left intact.
• ‘Know your rights’: Don’t show on first run.
• WhatsNew: Don’t show WhatsNew on first run after every update.
• Crash reporter: Disabled by default and configurable.
• Calendar: Official multilingual Calendar extension used to handle locales switching.
• OpenPGP GnuPG: Can use an external GnuPG home and gpg.exe path (see below).

Configuration

Stormhen portable can be configured through the main YAML configuration file :

app:
  cleanup: true
  multiple_instances: false
  disable_telemetry: false
  disable_crash_reporter: true
  gnupg_home: ""
  gnupg_path: ""
  locale: en-US

• cleanup : Cleanup leftover folders (default false)
• multiple_instances : Allow multiple instances (default false).
• disable_telemetry : If enabled, telemetry is not uploaded (default false).
• disable_crash_reporter : If enabled, the crash reporter is disabled (default true).
• gnupg_home : Path to GnuPG home directory. If empty, the current GNUPGHOME environment variable is reused when available.
• gnupg_path : Path to GnuPG executable gpg.exe. If empty, Thunderbird keeps its default OpenPGP behavior.
• locale : Locale located in app\langs can be used to change UI language without .xpi extension (default en-US).

Known issues

There is no known issues Please let us know if you found one!

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