Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 2.0.0.18 Released

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on November 13, 2008 - 1:13am

Firefox logoPortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 2.0.0.18 in English, German, French, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. It's the legacy 2.0 version of the popular Mozilla Firefox bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can take your browser, bookmarks, settings and extensions on the go. This release updates Firefox to 2.0.0.18 and has an improved launcher. 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.

Read on for more details...

Features

Mozilla 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...

New in This Release

In this release, Firefox has been updated to 2.0.0.18 (release notes) and has an improved launcher.

Reminder: Don't Auto-Update

We also wanted to remind everyone not to use the built in auto-updater with Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition due to an unfixed bug in the updater itself. As with all software in PortableApps.com Format, you can do an in-place upgrade (install the new version right over the old one) and all your data will be preserved. More here: Upgrading Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition and Bug 406335.

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

The legacy version of Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is available for immediate download from the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition homepage in the Other Versions section. Get it today!

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Comments

I didn't noticed the "legacy" downloaded and just used the big link image at the top of the page and updated to 3.0.4 (which I definitely don't want for my own reasons).

I know it's my bad because I haven't paid much attention but perhaps it might be possible to create a different page for ff 2.x instead of this legacy download? I'm sure I'm not the only one who falled for that.

John T. Haller's picture

It's not really worth it right now since Firefox 2 support is being dropped by both Mozilla and PortableApps.com in a few weeks.

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

Tim Clark's picture

Thanks as always John,

And yes, I will upgrade to FFP3 when support for FF2 stops Blum

Tim

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

I still can't run portable FF3 successfully. It just totally takes control of my USB drive (all extra features disabled).

I'll just keep running FF2 and periodically checking FF3 to see if it will eventually stop hogging up the drive.