Namoroka, Portable Edition 3.6 Alpha 1

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Submitted by John T. Haller on August 10, 2009 - 11:50am

logoNamoroka, Portable Edition 3.6 Alpha 1 has been released. Namoroka is an early developer milestone of the popular Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app that is being built on top of Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 layout engine, Namoroka Alpha 1 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Namoroka Alpha 1. For everyday use, please use Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition. 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

Namoroka is a preview release of the upcoming Firefox 3.6 release. Full details are available in the release notes.

New In This Release

This release updates to Namoroka 3.6 Alpha 1 (release notes).

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

Namoroka, 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

Namoroka, Portable Edition is available for immediate download from the Namoroka, Portable Edition 3.6 Alpha 1 homepage. Get it today!

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spg SCOTT

August 10, 2009 - 1:20pm

I know it is the preview to Firefox 3.6, but is Namoroka the actual name?

I say this because when downloaded, it is called Firefox Portable test...
not namoroka portable...

See the slight confusion with the different names...

-Scott-

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Namoroka is the testing edition of Firefox.

So really, it's both.

And isn't this suppose to be the bug fix of the auto-updater (just making sure)?

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spg SCOTT

August 10, 2009 - 1:49pm

I know that but,

on the page it is called Namoroka...
downloaded, it is called Firefox...
In the menu, it is Namoroka...
In task manager, it is Firefox...

I was thinking a bit of continuity would be nice...

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John T. Haller

August 10, 2009 - 1:47pm

Like the local version, you'll see that the EXE that starts it is actually called firefox.exe (and FirefoxPortable.exe for our launcher) but the app itself is called Namoroka. Mozilla does this for alpha versions of Firefox to distinguish them from real Firefox builds. Our installer is called FirefoxPortableTest_3.6_Alpha_1.paf.exe because FirefoxPortableTest is the AppID for test versions of Firefox (alpha and beta).

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spg SCOTT

August 10, 2009 - 1:50pm

I get it now, if only I'd seen this before I posted above...

Thanks Wink

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Eric13246

August 10, 2009 - 5:44pm

What's the difference between an Alpha version and a Beta version?

Eric

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John T. Haller

August 10, 2009 - 5:47pm

Alpha is really early in the development process. There will be bugs. You could very easily lose your data. Features and functionality will be added/removed/changed with each release. Beta is more stable, still buggy, but closer to the finished product. Then lastly you have release candidates which, as long as nothing is found wrong, will become the actual shipped product.

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Eric13246

August 11, 2009 - 8:31pm

Ok, so that's why we don't need to download Nomoroka 3.6 if we're using Firefox 3.5. Thank you for this answer =D.

Eric

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The MAZZTer

August 10, 2009 - 1:44pm

Now I can test it without worrying about it messing with my Firefox 3.5 install. Thanks!

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kevbentz

August 11, 2009 - 9:01am

"Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Namoroka Alpha 1."

You mean as a replacement for, or for everyday use?

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John T. Haller

August 11, 2009 - 9:24am

It's an early alpha test. And that sentence, including the bold, is taken from Mozilla's own release announcement. It is not a replacement for Mozilla Firefox. Nor is it an everyday browser. It's appropriate for testing new features and functionality only. It's an alpha. It may blow up.

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ZachHudock

August 11, 2009 - 9:25am

Both.

Namoroka = Firefox, but it's an early alpha release, there WILL be bugs, and possible loss of data

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BuddhaChu

August 11, 2009 - 2:16pm

Here's something you can look at that's new in the alpha - background gradients:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/Gradients

(Naturally you need to be using this alpha to see the gradient in effect)

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