Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 32.0 (web browser) Released

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on September 2, 2014 - 1:15pm

Firefox logoPortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 32.0. It's 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. And it's open source and completely free. It's available for immediate download and bundled on the World's Best Flash Drive: The PortableApps.com Carbide as well as the fast and affordable PortableApps.com Companion.

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Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.

Features

FirefoxPortable_small.pngMozilla 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 Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is available for immediate download from the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition homepage. You can get the German release from the German homepage and the other localized releases from the Localization page. Get it today!

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For FF v32 starting with a new profile from scratch:

FF v32 uses logons.json. Copying over your previous signons.json and key3.db wont't work. Might have something to do with key4.db soon?

1) Get your new profile set up.
2) In about:config, change signon.importedFromSqlite to true.
3) Close Firefox.
4) Copy your signons.json (not key3.db) to your new profile folder.
5) Open Firefox.
6) Your saved passwords should now work.
7) The about:config pref will have to remain true even if you remove your signons.json file.
8 ) Hopefully the logons.json will work in future FF versions without any extra work.

It'll be a good idea to archive your signsons.json and key3.db.

It worked for me. If there's a less painful way to do this, I didn't find it. Cheers!

John T. Haller's picture

It's all automatic unless you're manually copying passwords from one instance to another.

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

That's what I meant by "starting with a new profile from scratch" and " Copying over your previous (files)."

Though I have no idea what I meant by "Might Mot Work." Smile

By automatic you mean installing v32 portable "right over" the previous portable install according to your "Upgrading Firefox Portable" instructions in the paragraph beginning "To upgrade to a newer version..." Then on first run v32 will migrate the signons.json data to logons.json? Same for the "built in updater"??

Can one assume the instructions in the paragraph beginning "If you're upgrading from Portable Firefox..." would not work in that it involves "copy your profile from the old ... into the new"?

3D1T0R's picture

Yes he meant installing a new version of Firefox Portable 'right over' the old version. The Data directory does not get touched by the installer.

If I remember correctly, copying the whole "profile" folder will automatically handle these kinds of updates as the data migration systems are built into Firefox and it will see what old version you're upgrading from in the profile and handle it accordingly.
And the reason specific files copied from older versions will not necessarily be handled automatically is because Firefox doesn't know you have previous data in the old files for it to parse and rewrite into the new files.

If you try copying an old Portable Firefox's profile into a new install of Firefox Portable you should let us know how it goes for you.

P.S.: Were you typing with your hands full? (jk)

~3D1T0R