PortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 5.0 Beta 7 in English, English (Great Britain), Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Spanish, Spanish International, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. It's the a test version 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.
Firefox Beta users can update automatically in the PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 5 by clicking 'Check for Updates'.
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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...
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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.
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Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is available for immediate download from the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 5.0 Beta homepage. Get it today!
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Comments
5.0 Final?
Looks like the final is avaible at mozilla servers :
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-5.0&os=win&lang=de
Cool!
Wow! Has nobody else noticed this?
From digging around on Wikipedia, it seems that Tuesday, 21 June 2011 is the official release date of Firefox 5. PortableApps.com might have the official release now to drop it on the same day, being that Firefox Portable is endorsed by Mozilla.
I assume the "lang=de" at the end means you're linking to the German one? Heh. =en, =en-us, and =en-uk don't link to anything.
Mozilla Endorsed
It's only Mozilla endorsed once it hits their homepage. They have pulled or modified releases at the last minute at least once before, as have most projects. It'll be officially released on Tuesday, at which time we'll package it up. We always have Firefox stable releases out within 24 hours.
Endorsed now?
Well, it just told me to update to Firefox 5.0 now through a slide notification that came up from the bottom of my screen...
...Well well well, 4.01 is still the latest at the official site, yet, it tells me Firefox Portable 5 beta 7 is "up to date". That was weird, then.
RC
I think the release candidate is being pushed to beta users and shoulf be final on Tuesday. It's not gonna be official til then though.
default installation dir
Hey John,
Thanks for the beta release. Quick question without posting on the forums, when installing apps, is it possible to provide the current working directory path instead of for example "\FirefoxPortable"? This can be useful when testing out new releases or even just not caring where to install the app.
Nope
The problem with that is that most users are expecting it to install into their PortableApps.com install. The installers all look for this PortableApps directory on all drives on the PC. If it can't detect it, it falls back to just the extension (NSIS default). If we have it set to use the current, most users will just click install and then be confused when it doesn't install to their platform instance because it couldn't find it (drive unplugged, etc).
sub tags?
Is there a reason for the sub tags around the Registered symbol? I've never seen that on this site before and it looks odd.