Ask non-beta specific questions in the Thunderbird support forum.Post beta specific questions and ideas, and see what others are reporting.User feedback and investigation is essential to the improvement of Thunderbird. (And when the normal release is running, its updates come from the "release channel", not the beta channel.) You can also run the normal release of Thunderbird "at the same time" by installing the beta into a different directory than the release version. Updates occur every 4 weeks, and as needed by developers and Thunderbird release management. Thunderbird updates are pulled from the "beta channel" so that you get beta updates, not normal release updates.
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You can download the beta from the channel page. And you giving feedback helps make that possible. While beta is considered to be unstable, quality and stability are goals for beta and are normally sufficiently high for adventurous users to use it on a daily basis. Add-ons authors use the beta channel to develop, update, and fix their add-ons.
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Beta is a test bed for patches and features which have landed in the daily build channel, because they need more users and more testing before being shipped in a release version.And because beta gets fixes before release, you might get relief from a problem that is not yet fixed in a normal release. Users can participate in improving their favorite open-source software, requiring little or no techincal skill.But you can run multiple installations and multiple channels, without one affecting the other by, by using a data profile for each with multiple profiles - use one profile for beta and one for production.
Because it helps improve Thunderbird, we love having users try beta versions, report bugs, and help other beta users.īecause of frequent code changes and add-ons that may not work, the beta channel is considered to be unstable and not recommended for production. Beta is a test and development channel where users of beta get fixes and feature changes before they are made available in regular releases.