Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.1 Beta 3 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on March 13, 2009 - 3:05am

Firefox logoMozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 3.1 Beta 3 has been released in English, German, French, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. It's the latest test release of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can take your browser, bookmarks, settings and extensions on the go. It's also a great way to test out all the new features of 3.1 without affecting your existing Firefox installation. This new release updates Firefox to 3.1 Beta 3 and has an updated installer. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 3

Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is the latest test release of the upcoming 3.1 version of Firefox. It has new features, security enhancements, performance upgrades and more. And, thanks to the PortableApps.com packaging, you can try out all the new features without impacting your locally-installed copy of Firefox. For more on what's new, read the Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Release Notes.

New In This Release

This release updates Firefox to 3.1 Beta 3 (release notes) and has an improved installer. As with other tests, it will install alongside your current Firefox Portable installation in a FirefoxPortableTest directory by default. You can distinguish it in the PortableApps.com Menu by hovering over it to see the version number. You can right-click on it to rename it to 'Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition Beta' or another name if you prefer.

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is available for immediate download from the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.1 Beta 3 homepage. You can get the German release from the German homepage and the French, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese releases from the Localization page. Get it today!

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Firefox portable doesn't seem to respond the firefoxportable.ini file setting multiple instance to true or adding extra command line parameters seem to get ignored. Only non-standard part of my installation is that I changed the install directory from firefoxportabletest to firefoxportable