Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 2.0.0.15 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 7, 2008 - 12:07pm

Firefox logoMozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 2.0.0.15 has been released in English, German, French, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. It's the legacy version of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can take your browser, bookmarks, settings and extensions on the go. The 2.0 release is still available and updated for users who have not yet upgraded to 3.0. 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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Features

portable_firefox_small.pngMozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, thanks to the PortableApps.com launcher bundled in the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go. Learn more about Mozilla Firefox...

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 homepage - Legacy Versions section. All languages are available from the 2.0.0.15 link. Get it today!

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Not yet ready to go with FX3 (need to know that specific add-ons are ready for prime-time) so I'm delighted you provided a PAF version of the .15 update.

I realise that this diverts time from newer stuff but am relieved that the (atypical) delay since full-fat 2.0.0.15 release turned out to be merely a delay. Good decision to do the work and release it - thanks again.

JRViejo (not verified)

July 7, 2008 - 2:30pm

Although it could be me: possible confusion on the links. While the Download section on this page properly points to the anchor #legacy, the link on the first paragraph points to the top of the Firefox 3.0 page. Shouldn't the top link also point to the anchor?

Reason why: after clicking that top link (never went down to the download section) thinking that I was at a new 2.0 page, I clicked the Source Forge download button and stopped when I realized that I was going to download the 3.0 version instead. Yes, I was in a hurry and yes, I should have paid attention, but if it happened to me, it could happen to someone else.

I agree. Maybe it would be best to put a second download button at the top of the page for the legacy versions, rather than just a link at the bottom of the page.

The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705

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John T. Haller

July 7, 2008 - 2:49pm

I already fixed the link in the news story. And the download button says "Download 3.0" pretty clearly. We won't be adding download buttons to the legacy versions. Mozilla very much downplays legacy versions on their site as well for the 6 months they make them available. Most users should be using the latest release. The design of our page is actually quite similar to Mozilla's in terms of the big download button and the small "Other Versions" link below it.

This is actually the first time we've gone on to support a legacy release of Mozilla's in this fashion. We may or may not support it as long as Mozilla does as it most likely will not be worth the effort in terms of number of users. Once Mozilla pushes out the 3.0 update to 2.0 users (which could be as soon as the upcoming 3.0.1 release) we may drop support for 2.0. If you wish to discuss this, please do so in the forums (you may start a new topic there and link it from here) but we shouldn't discuss it in detail within comments on a news story.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

John, thank you very much for this release Smile
I will download and install tomorrow when at work.

I will start a new topic in the forums.

Tim

Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?

fatcerberus1

July 7, 2008 - 9:59pm

Wait, 3.0.1? You mean they finally dropped the pointless quad-part versions? I never understood why they ever did that... the third number never changed!

Edit: This was meant as a reply to John... I wasn't logged in, so when I did so, it automatically redirected me to the Post Comment page and instead of putting it as a reply to John's post (even though I clicked the login link on his post) it put it as a top-level comment. Sad

I would love to ONLY use Firefox 3.0 portable, but for whatever reason, it won't accept the Flash extension. I followed the directions under "Installing Plugins (Flash, Shockwave, etc.)" with no luck, and I even manually downloaded the Flash extension and told FF 3.0 it to open it. Still no luck. And I did try copying the files from a working browser to the thumb drive as the instructions said to try. Since many of the sites I frequent require Flash, I cannot use it for all of my browsing needs. I use it at work, where as with most people, they do not allow us to install anything. From what it looks like, I'd have to install Flash 9.0 locally in order for 3.0 to use Flash.

Does anyone know how to remedy this?

qwertinsky

July 10, 2008 - 11:00am

Thank you for this. The portable version of FF3 is a slug...

Well I should say more of a slug than the desktop FF3.

It's so sad to see FF on it's decline.