Firefox 3 portable out of beta

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Firefox 3 portable out of beta

by Joey Celis Jun 23rd 2008

We've covered the beta version of Firefox 3 portable before. But since the world wide release of Firefox 3, the team over at PortableApps has upgraded the beta version to the release version of this very popular web browser

Unlike the standard Windows version of Firefox 3 that requires a standard Windows installation, the portable version can be executed in any directory, even right off a USB thumb drive. This makes it great for taking your own browser, complete with cookies and favorites, with you for use on any Windows computer. When you're done, remove the thumb drive from the host computer leaving virtually no trace of your online activities.

The portable version is a 8MB download and available now at PortableApps.com.

Tags: browser, firefox, portable

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Abdo said 8:29AM on 6-23-2008

Does it come with the securilty flaw from last week?

Munted said 9:04AM on 6-23-2008

Ba-dum tish!

Aalaap said 5:29AM on 6-24-2008

Does anyone know how to run Firefox 2 and 3 at the same time? And I don't mean sharing profiles with the two, I mean AT THE SAME TIME. I mean being able to Alt-Tab between FF2 and FF3. Googling for "run firefox 2 and 3 simultaneously" only throws up how-to's for having them installed at the same time either using the same or different profile(s), but you can't open FF3 while FF2 is already running, or vice versa. I want to have FF2 and FF3 at the same time and tile the windows side by side and look at them. Any idea?

Nimish said 7:17AM on 6-24-2008

I believe you might find MultiFireFox 2.0 useful.

http://codecontortionist.com/software/mac-osx-software/multifirefox/

It's basically made for Mac OS X but there is a Python version available which can be ported to Windows.

Here's a TUAW article on it:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/18/multifirefox-2-0/

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