Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.1 Beta 2 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on December 21, 2008 - 3:43pm

Firefox logoMozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 3.1 Beta 2 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 2 and has an updated launcher and 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 2

Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 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 2 Release Notes.

New In This Release

This release updates Firefox to 3.1 Beta 2 (release notes) and has an improved launcher and installer.

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 2 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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yeah thanks for all this christmas-presents,
recent versions of:

Dec 21 Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

Dec 23 VirtualDub 1.8.7
Dec 22 Pidgin 2.5.3
Dec 18 VLC Media Player 0.9.8a
Dec 18 WinSCP 4.1.8
Dec 18 7-Zip 4.62
Dec 18 OpenOffice.org 3.0

I use all this programs.

The new FF
works very well with all my used plugins like:

adblock plus: http://www.erweiterungen.de/detail/Adblock_Plus/
foxmarks: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410
downthemall beta: http://www.downthemall.net/latest/downthemall-11-beta-1/

thanks.

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