Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.5.4 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on October 28, 2009 - 11:22pm

Firefox logoPortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 3.5.4 in 15 languages. It's the latest 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. This new release updates Firefox to 3.5.4 and simplifies the launcher. We've expanded the languages available to include Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Russian and Spanish (Spain and International). 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.

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Features

portable_firefox_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...

New In Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 makes surfing the Web easier and more enjoyable with exciting new features and platform updates that allow Web developers to create the next generation of Web content. Native support for open video and audio, private browsing, and support for the newest Web technologies will enable richer, more interactive online experiences.

Performance. Firefox 3.5 includes the powerful new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which delivers unprecedented performance with today’s complex Web applications. Firefox 3.5 is more than two times faster than Firefox 3 and ten times faster than Firefox 2.

Open Video and Audio. Enjoy video and audio content from within your browser, without the need for plugins. Video is a vital part of the modern Web, whether it’s used to communicate, educate, or entertain. Firefox 3.5 delivers the first native integration of audio and video directly into the browser. Now everyone can easily watch open format Ogg Theora videos.

Web developers can use these technologies to design pages that interact with video content in new and exciting ways, offering richer interactive experiences beyond controlling playback and volume.

Privacy Controls. Firefox 3.5 includes features designed to protect your privacy online and provide greater control over your personal data.

While using the new Private Browsing mode in Firefox 3.5, nothing you encounter on the Web will be stored from that moment on during your browsing session. Unique to Firefox 3.5, the new Forget this Site feature can remove every trace of a site from your browser. If you want to remove all private data or activity from the past few hours, Clear Recent History, another Firefox-only feature, gives you full control over what stays and what goes.

Location Aware Browsing. Location Aware Browsing saves you time by allowing websites to ask you where you are located. If you choose to share your location with a website, it can use that information to find nearby points of interest and return additional, useful data like maps of your area. It’s all optional – Firefox doesn’t share your location without your permission.

New in This Release

In this release, Firefox has been updated to 3.5.4 (release notes) and removes the prompt to disable session store on first run.

Auto-Update Issue

If you allow Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition to auto-update, some non-personal files may remain on the local PC. This will be addressed in a later release.

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 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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Hello!
I had several problems to use Sun Java applications with Firefox Portable. After a long search I decided to use other secondary browser to get Sun Java applications. Today I found inesperately a solution to solve this problem when FF portable is installed in the hard disk. All began yesterday when I was trying to install a program named Spywareblaster(a malware protection program) with no success to protect portable Firefox until I found the solution in one forum. My surprise started today when I installed Sun Java update 17 and all Java Applications started to run like nonportable Firefox was installed in my computer. The spywareblaster solution also makes FF portable to be detected by Sun Java when it is reinstalled, and there is the complete steps:

The first step is to create a folder with the name mozilla located in:

C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\username\PROGRAM DATA\MOZILLA

The second file is to create the file profiles.ini and copy it in the above folder. The file profiles.ini must contain the next lines:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=Default
IsRelative=0
Path=C:\FirefoxPortable\Data\profile
Default=1

After make this, I installed Sun Java and rebooted the system, and now I can use all Sun Java applications with Firefox Portable with no problems at all.
I know this is a little solution and probably it had no effects in USB, but I am very satisfied with this in my computer.
Thank you all, specially to Mr. Haller for FF portable.