Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Beta 1 Revision 2 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on December 5, 2007 - 11:22pm

Firefox logoMozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 3 Beta 1 Revision 2 has been released. It's the first beta of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 3 web 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 is a minor update to 3 Beta 1 which, by popular demand, installs alongside an existing 2.0 install by default, supports upgrading 2.0 installations and handles removing 3.0 crash data from the local PC. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1

Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1 is the first test release of the upcoming 3.0 version of Firefox. With tons of new features, security enhancements, performance upgrades and more, it's one of the most widely-anticipated releases this year. And, thanks to the PortableApps.com packaging, you can try out all the new features without impacting your locally-installed copy of Firefox. For more on what's new, read the Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1 Release Notes.

New In This Release

This is a minor update to last week's 3 Beta 1 release with some requested features included. The installer will now install alongside an existing Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 2.x install by default. The installer will also properly upgrade a 2.x installation for users that wish to use 3 Beta 1 as their primary browser (just be sure and do a quick backup with the PortableApps.com Backup utility first). The PortableApps.com Launcher now correctly interprets and cleans up any crash tracking data left behind on a local PC by Firefox 3 Beta 1 as well.

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 3 Beta 1 homepage. Get it today!

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I will be interested in trying Revision 2. Revision 1, which I loaded onto my flashdrive crashed when I tried to run it. It generated a crash report which I hope will help you in further development (then again, you may have already fixed that in Revision 2).
Paulf

I had this problem too, until I clean installed the Beta. Do you have any Extensions installed? If you have an extension that is not compatible with 3.0, I believe this might be causing your crash.

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John Bentley

December 6, 2007 - 5:50pm

The issue is you can't install over 2.0.

Also it is generally considered bad to post a support ? in the release.

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John T. Haller

December 6, 2007 - 6:42pm

That's one of the points of Revision 2.

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

rab040ma

December 7, 2007 - 10:36am

A minor quibble: even though he was answering you, it didn't look to me like he was criticizing you for answering, just trying to help, himself (turns out his answer wasn't quite correct, but haven't we all been incorrect once in a while ourselves?). He was a bit critical of the one who asked the support question. It would be nice if support questions ended up in the support forum rather than in news releases, but people will be people and ask their questions wherever the spirit moves them. Nevertheless, if enough comments like that are made in passing (assuming good will, even if a bit cryptic), maybe more people will think to switch to a support forum first.

MC