PortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition Aurora 27 Alpha 2 and Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition Nightly 28 Alpha 1 Pre. It's the latest alpha and beta release of the upcoming of the Mozilla Firefox browser bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you try it out without affecting your standard local or portable Firefox install. The new 28 Nightly release is a great way to check out the new Australis UI design (see screenshot below) and the new multiprocess mode. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And, as always, it's open source and completely free.
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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...
Multiprocess In Nightly - You can turn on multiprocess mode in the nightly build by setting browser.tabs.remote to true in about:config and then restarting 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.
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Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is available for immediate download from the Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition Aurora section and Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition Nightly section. Get it today!
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Comments
Thank you
Thank you for packaging these.
It will be interesting to see what all the fuss is about the Australis UI.
Nice
Havent tried Firefox Nightlies for ages but the new design is a good way to ump up the download numbers
Multiprocess In Nightly
You can turn on multiprocess mode in the nightly build by setting browser.tabs.remote to true in about:config and then restarting Firefox.
Not Ready Yet
John I made that adjustment right after install and the browser would crash at random times. Changed it back and it seems to have stabilized. Therefore I'd recommend not changing browser.tabs.remote, or changing it back to default if you start getting random crashes.
Worked Here
It worked here when I tried it, but it's going to have issues and your install is a different version of mine since it's a nightly build. Remember, nightly builds will have something working one night but broken the next. It's the joys of using pre-alpha software (read: it might randomly catch fire).
Yeah Mr. Haller, yeah technology!
I been waiting to try out Aurora, but my PC is almost out of space, this portable beta right here?, just what I needed!, how convenient, thanks a lot.
Updating Nightly Portable?
I wonder, how would I keep Nightly Portable updated?
Same as Local
You can run the internal updater. Or just reinstall (the equivalent of downloading an updater version and installing). We don't release a new package for every single evening. Note that it may be out of date at the moment due to the reasons listed in the site header banner.
Thanks for that note. I
Thanks for that note. I personally have found the updater to not pick up updates for Nightly. But as the installer is an online one (as in, it downloads the latest version from Mozilla), it should work.
I would say releasing updates for nightly at each version change (like update from Alpha 1 Pre to Alpha 2 Pre) would be the most ideal.
Update
They've been updated to 28/29, so the downloads are working again.
Confused :/
Does the Nightly Build overwrite the Firefox Portable?
I have the Stable, Beta, Aurora, and Legacy (3.6) installed in the PortableApps Launcher. And when I go to install the Nightly build, it asks me to Close the Current Firefox, which is Stable.
Independent
each install is independent, but the installer just checks to see if Firefox.exe is running, not from where.
Ah, I see. Thanks
Ah, I see. Thanks