Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 5.0 Beta 2 (web browser) Released by PortableApps.com

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Submitted by John T. Haller on May 23, 2011 - 10:38pm

Firefox logoPortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 5.0 Beta 2 in English, English (Great Britain), Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. It's the first full beta (after an earlier test) of the upcoming 5.0 version of the Mozilla Firefox 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 packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And, as always, it's open source and completely free.

Mozilla®, Firefox® and the Firefox logo are registered trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation and are used under license.

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...

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 5.0 Beta 2 homepage. Get it today!

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John T. Haller

May 24, 2011 - 10:15am

You probably renamed FirefoxPortableTest as Firefox 4 when you had it installed when it was in the Firefox 4 testing phase.

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

It appears that the Updater DataBase has not yet been updated for this release.
Please replace lines 889-932 with the following:

[FirefoxPortableTest]
Name=Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition (Test)
Description=Browsers
Category=Internet
SubCategory=Browsers
URL=https://portableapps.com/FirefoxPortableTest
PackageVersion=4.999.2.2
DisplayVersion=5.0 Beta 2
DownloadFile=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_English.paf.exe
Hash=53339438e525a2ccaa1b049ea3d842fe
DownloadSize=16
InstallSize=27
InstallSizeTo=77
UpdateOnly=true

DownloadFile_Dutch=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_Dutch.paf.exe
Hash_Dutch=71708dc673edb3f40c01f050ec974117
DownloadFile_EnglishGB=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_EnglishGB.paf.exe
Hash_EnglishGB=6457b90d85ce0dc4adcb3b9a049cec3e
DownloadFile_French=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_French.paf.exe
Hash_French=8fe8df1eecab4b0e62d69b490f2af5ac
DownloadFile_German=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_German.paf.exe
Hash_German=ca5a2e706b5a52baddab30761a0fcacb
DownloadFile_Hungarian=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_Hungarian.paf.exe
Hash_Hungarian=b5859c2d96c8cf2b464c0f0c81ca880b
DownloadFile_Italian=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_Italian.paf.exe
Hash_Italian=1972c67df9a8da45635ba8d74feb82fa
DownloadFile_Korean=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_Korean.paf.exe
Hash_Korean=ae850d2e29a941fa24276e865b3957b5
DownloadFile_Polish=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_Polish.paf.exe
Hash_Polish=78b78efdef9fa69684d663a3504cac92
DownloadFile_Portuguese=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_Portuguese.paf.exe
Hash_Portuguese=250168557ec1b91e42af7fa95eaf316c
DownloadFile_PortugueseBR=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_PortugueseBR.paf.exe
Hash_PortugueseBR=3d5682d44f9bf3a0f2a165b0c18c258f
DownloadFile_Russian=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_Russian.paf.exe
Hash_Russian=57e297a660a7a8b91b5310af58f62403
DownloadFile_SimpChinese=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_SimpChinese.paf.exe
Hash_SimpChinese=835cbad603bc5cc864d38d2f30250761
DownloadFile_Spanish=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_Spanish.paf.exe
Hash_Spanish=777eaef6f066b97c7a2f473ebe317fea
DownloadFile_TradChinese=FirefoxPortableTest_5.0_Beta_2_TradChinese.paf.exe
Hash_TradChinese=20cbe545bbae7d6d15e3f4ecc789f6e4

~3D1T0R

It's not suppose to be. This is a beta, not a stable. And if you notice, it doesn't have the standard Update automatically in the PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 5 by clicking 'Check for Updates'. on the page.

The AppID is "FirefoxPortableTest", thus it won't update people's stable FFP installs, it'll update their Beta installs (like it's supposed to), and all the old Betas were in the Updater DataBase, so why is this one any different?

~3D1T0R

I have the same problem with this version as with v4.

Certain add-ons are listed as compatible; will load and run ok.
However, when Firefox portable is closed and my USB drive is plugged into a different PC, Firefox drops the compatibility for the add-on. They are disabled and yellow.
If I do a check for updates they all go green and are enabled after a restart.
When I then put the USB drive back into the first PC they are all disabled again.

I can't handle going through this every time I swap PC! If I rerun Firefox on the same PC again the add-ons are still fine.

I have tried a fresh install and I'm not overwriting an existing version. I have tried deleting extensions.* from my profile, before and after updating the compatibility. Every time I swap PC the compatibility is lost.

Some affected add-ons are:
Ebay Negs
Links like this
Speed dial
URL link
Stay-open menu

Anyone have any ideas why my compatibility is being dropped whenever I swap PC?