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Thunderbird 20 immediatly crashes after launching with Android 6 version #11189
Description
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App
Thunderbird for Android
App version
20.0
Where did you get the app from?
F-Droid
Android version
No custom ROM
Device model
Samsung Galaxy S5
Steps to reproduce
By launching Thunderbird 20.0, it immedatly crashes, so the app is unavailable.
Thunder 19.x was in the same case.
Can you fix that, please ?
Best regards.
Expected behavior
To launch the app.
Actual behavior
The app immediatly crashes at launch.
Logs
No response
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rafaeltonholo commentedon Jun 25, 2026
Hi @E-Gwen, unfortunately, we could not reproduce the issue on our end. Please share more details about the issue:
Thanks
E-Gwen commentedon Jun 25, 2026
Hi,
I didn't use TfA 18, but it was running well with TfA 17.x, that's obvious.
Following the way for collecting logs, the command "adb shell ps -A | findstr net.thunderbird.android" doesn't reply anything, so I can't get any "PID", sorry.
adb devies is ok, but this command line only returns to the adb prompt. 😶
wmontwe commentedon Oct 15, 2026
Hi @E-Gwen,
Thank you for reporting this, and we apologize for the trouble. We have already received similar reports regarding this issue. Google has begun phasing out support for Android 6 within the platform libraries we rely on, which is likely causing the problems you are experiencing. Because these changes are occurring within the external libraries provided by Google, there is no fix we can implement within the app to resolve them.
While we intended to maintain support for Android 6 through the end of the year, this is no longer possible. Thunderbird for Android 25 will be the final version compatible with Android 6. Starting with version 26, Android 7 or newer will be required. We understand this is disappointing and apologize for the impact this has on your device usage.
See #11545