Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.5 Beta 4 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on June 3, 2009 - 7:23pm

Firefox logoMozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 3.5 Beta 4 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 3.5 without affecting your existing Firefox installation. This new release updates Firefox to 3.5 Beta 4 and has an updated installer and launcher with Windows 7 support. 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 3.5 Beta 4

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is the latest test release of the upcoming 3.5 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 3.5 Beta 4 Release Notes.

New In This Release

This release updates Firefox to 3.5 Beta 4 (release notes) and has an improved installer and launcher with fixes for a registry issue on Vista. It also has improved Windows 7 support. As with other tests, it will install alongside your current Firefox Portable installation in a FirefoxPortableTest directory by default.

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 3.5 Beta 4 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! I have been looking forward to this. Smile Thank you!

Máté Farkas from Hungary

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We've done Firefox betas for years now. It was just awaiting the new format and installer to stabilize. We added Thunderbird betas with the v3 release. They're mainly for testing and can be handy to test out the new versions without impacting your local ones. Plus they help us flesh out issues with portability for these major apps.

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

Under XP64, tried this one out. Using in conjunction with DefaultMyFFP-1.5 (to enable default browser functionality as far as double clicking web links, etc). For some reason 3.5 B4 opens all double clicked links as a new window as opposed to a new tab within the existing window. I believe this is related to how the launcher itself is handling / passing the links it is receiving.