[tor-talk] TBB equivalent for Thunderbird?

[Bry8 Star]

i'm not 100% sure, if Portable Thunderbird would work under Wine or not,
but worth a shot.
Many windows Portable apps, does run using Wine.
And what about loading a small custom Windows XP inside a VirtualBox
based VM on Linux, then run Windows apps ?

-- Bry8Star.


Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
> antispam06 at sent.at:
>> I see TorBirdy is readily available. But that might mean a system wide
>> instance of Thunderbird. For Windows the solution is just a clean
>> version of Thunderbird provided by PortableApps.com and TorBirdy, maybe
>> downloaded via Tor/TBB. What about Linux? I could not find the
>> equivalent PortableApps.Linux.
> 
> We'd love to provide this and in fact, we'd be able to provide a safer
> Thunderbird for Tor usage as our patches would be included. The downside
> is that Tor usage is not the only thing that matters - updates of all
> kinds will need to be tracked and kept in line with upstream.
> 
> It is a lot of effort to make TBB and to make a Thunderbird version,
> keeping it updated and so on - it would require a lot of thinking on our
> part. I think without Thandy, I fear that it would be a nightmare.
> 
> Perhaps there is some way to adapt Mozilla's secure updating system to
> give users an upgrade path? I'm not sure. I welcome any thoughts on the
> subject...
> 
> Ultimately, we like the idea - so hopefully we can find a way to do it
> without drowning ourselves in work on a fork of Thunderbird that isn't
> required. Ideally, we'd like upstream to merge everything - heck, even
> TorBirdy, and make it a simple option... :)
> 
> All the best,
> Jacob
> 
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