Betterbird: System Requirements

Windows

Operating Systems

• Windows 7 64bit
• Windows 8 64bit
• Windows 10 64bit

Windows Recommended Hardware

• Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2
• 2GB of RAM, preferably 4 GB
• 300 MB hard drive space (in addition to storage necessary for downloaded messages)

Linux

Linux is a can of worms due to the many distributions. The executables we build on a current version of Mint 20.2 (as of August 2021) require GLIBC 2.31 to run. Thunderbird can run on earlier versions of GLIBC. See Distrowatch for a list of distributions and click on the respective distribution link to see the GLIBC version.

Supported versions, for example:
Linux Mint 20
Ubuntu 20
Debian 11 "Bullseye".

Note Betterbird and Debian's/Ubuntu's Thunderbird build use EGL 1.5 graphics API whereas Mozilla-built Thunderbird uses GLX 1.4 which can lead to blurry fonts.

Mac

Due to popular demand, we're providing a Mac build. This was compiled on an Intel Mac under macOS 12 "Monterey". We've also tested it on macOS 10.15 "Catalina". Feedback welcome on what works and what doesn't.