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Been usng the Beterbird portable for quite some time now, but when I
attemped to run the latest update version, 140.6 Win64, I got this
wierd error msg:

"BetterbirdPortable-140.6.0esr-bb16.en-US.win64\core\betterbird.exe is
not a valid Win32 application."

I'm wondering what is this?

Anyone else using Betterbird have this problem?
--
Zo

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people
will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
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On Wed, 1/7/2026 5:24 PM, Zo wrote:

Been usng the Beterbird portable for quite some time now, but when I attemped to run the latest update version, 140.6 Win64, I got this wierd error msg:

"BetterbirdPortable-140.6.0esr-bb16.en-US.win64\core\betterbird.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

I'm wondering what is this?

Anyone else using Betterbird have this problem?

It is probably better to report this at

alt.comp.software.thunderbird

and see if Jorg is around.

The trace runs for 2.4 seconds, as the Launcher tries to
prepare a runtime environment. And it's rather hard to tell
what activity causes the thread to shut down.

Paul


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On Wed, 1/7/2026 10:45 PM, Paul wrote:

On Wed, 1/7/2026 5:24 PM, Zo wrote:

Been usng the Beterbird portable for quite some time now, but when I attemped to run the latest update version, 140.6 Win64, I got this wierd error msg:

"BetterbirdPortable-140.6.0esr-bb16.en-US.win64\core\betterbird.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

I'm wondering what is this?

Anyone else using Betterbird have this problem?

It is probably better to report this at

alt.comp.software.thunderbird

and see if Jorg is around.

The trace runs for 2.4 seconds, as the Launcher tries to
prepare a runtime environment. And it's rather hard to tell
what activity causes the thread to shut down.

One other thing that occurs to me, is Firefox support would
not be there for Windows 7 in version 140, and Windows 7 uses
115ESR or so at the moment, for Firefox. I don't know what your
release history is, and what your compatibility.ini says in your
profile, but perhaps this would have been a better download ?

https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/WindowsPortable/115/BetterbirdPortable-115.19.0-bb37.en-US.win64.zip

I didn't test that, and I thought I'd just pass that along
as an option.

Paul
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Paul presented the following explanation :

On Wed, 1/7/2026 10:45 PM, Paul wrote:

On Wed, 1/7/2026 5:24 PM, Zo wrote:

Been usng the Beterbird portable for quite some time now, but when I
attemped to run the latest update version, 140.6 Win64, I got this wierd >>> error msg:

"BetterbirdPortable-140.6.0esr-bb16.en-US.win64\core\betterbird.exe is not >>> a valid Win32 application."

I'm wondering what is this?

Anyone else using Betterbird have this problem?

It is probably better to report this at

alt.comp.software.thunderbird

and see if Jorg is around.

The trace runs for 2.4 seconds, as the Launcher tries to
prepare a runtime environment. And it's rather hard to tell
what activity causes the thread to shut down.

One other thing that occurs to me, is Firefox support would
not be there for Windows 7 in version 140, and Windows 7 uses
115ESR or so at the moment, for Firefox. I don't know what your
release history is, and what your compatibility.ini says in your
profile, but perhaps this would have been a better download ?

https://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/WindowsPortable/115/BetterbirdPortable-115.19.0-bb37.en-US.win64.zip

I didn't test that, and I thought I'd just pass that along
as an option.

Paul

Thanks for your response Paul. Getting up in age (83), switching
between Win 7 and Win10 and I simple forgot that the latest versions do
not work on Win 7 anymore. :-( :-(
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Zo

Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites?
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