Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Release Candidate 2 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on June 4, 2008 - 11:58pm

Firefox logoMozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 3 Release Candidate 2 has been released in English, German, French, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. It's the latest test release 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. It's also a great way to test out all the new features of 3.0 without affecting your existing Firefox installation. This new release updates Firefox to Release Candidate 2 and has an updated launcher. 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 Release Candidate 2

Mozilla Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 is the latest 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 Release Candidate 2 Release Notes.

New In This Release

This release updates Firefox to 3 Release Candidate 2 (release notes) and has an improved launcher that adds support for mimetype updating in live mode.

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 Release Candidate 2 homepage. French, German, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese are available from the Localization page. Get it today!

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Will not work with Webmail Notifier. (A reccomendeded addon) It willnot remember my Email Adresses.

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Patrick Patience

June 5, 2008 - 10:05am

I don't believe the Webmail Notifer is a recommended addon on this site, so if it's not Firefox 3 compatible yet there's really nothing for us to be concerned about, especially since this is a test version.

Also, if it doesn't remember your e-mail address (form field?), then that's a Firefox issue.

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Stevoisiak

June 5, 2008 - 11:30am

The addon checks to see if I have new mail in my email address. I go to a new computer, and it has no emails to check. Also, crash reports are stored on the PC. And here are recommended addons. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/recommended. And there is a folder titled "extensions" in the school PC.

Edit: I have images of leftovers from Mozila firefox. I'll post them soon. I need to get to my home PC.

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has made a significant change to the API for its secure storage area (where it keeps passwords and the like), which means that any and all addons that use it to store config are BROKEN until they are updated.

If you're going to use a pre-release version of the browser, you'll have to get used to this, since if they update the addons, it will break them for the current production stable 2.0.0.x series.

Even once FF3 is released, it could take a long time before all the addons you use are updated, even never in some cases, if the author has abandoned them.

The correct place to request assistance is from the author of the specific addon in question.

But anyway, this thread really belongs in the support forum.

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Stevoisiak

June 5, 2008 - 12:56pm

No, The addon IS Firefox 3 compatable, its just, never mind.

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John T. Haller

June 5, 2008 - 1:32pm

You've been here long enough to know that this type of post doesn't belong in a release announcement.

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

I forgot. Also, apparently it was my flat. I never saved my addon settings. But Firefox will leave a small amount of data behind. Here is a photo of Me looking at what firefox left behind in Pea Zip, each time going one folder deeper.(extensions folder was empty, so I didn't take a photo of it)
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2m4u2vm&s=3
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4q3qex&s=3
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=mjwm7q&s=3
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=v76s5k&s=3

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John T. Haller

June 5, 2008 - 4:20pm

This does NOT belong in a release announcement. Support, bug reports, etc all belong in the forums. You know that.

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

I didn't realize that. Im sorry.

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Does your ff3 portable remember website login sessions? I have to re-login everytime i start ff3. No problem with non-portable ff3. Is this a bug or am i missing something?
Already configured to accept all cookies until they expire. No clearing on exit.

This version freezes all the time on Windows XP sp3, it took almost 3 minutes to write this message here.
The original rc2 from mozilla's site doesn't have this kind of freezing on this pc or others.

Firefox portable is really important. But why cannot tab mix plus be installed? It is really useful but unfortunately not compatible with firefox portable 3 Candidate 2. Is there any way to add tab mix plus to firefox portable 3 c2.