Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 2.0.0.12 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on February 8, 2008 - 3:24am

Firefox logoMozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition version 2.0.0.12 has been released in English, German, French and Italian. It's the popular Mozilla Firefox 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 new release updates the included Firefox to 2.0.0.12 fixing some security and stability issues. 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.

Read on for more details...

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 This Release

This release updates the bundled Mozilla Firefox to 2.0.0.12 to fix some security and stability issues.

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 French and Italian releases from the Localization page. Get it today!

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MarkoMLM

February 8, 2008 - 4:07am

...great Job again Smile

Regards
Marko

Paid for Software more or less?
What You need is OSS!

eltonbrad

February 8, 2008 - 4:52am

I can't believe how quick that was, I only just got notified by Firefox on my computer that I need to update to the new version! Now I come here and I find a quick update for Firefox Portable! Amazing!

Well done John and everyone else helping him! PortableApps is clearly the best!

Bradley Eaton
(eltonbrad)

XyberXenon

February 8, 2008 - 5:02am

Hello,

at first, yeah, new version... and how fast.

And now my question, should I install the FireFox new (over the old version) or can I use the FireFox-included updater?

Greetings
Xyber

appsuser

February 8, 2008 - 7:07am

I've noticed if I try to update using the normal Firefox method, my portable version of Firefox becomes registered in the Add/Remove Programs on the computer I am using...so I now use the Firefox extension FEBE to backup my Firefox data, delete my old folder, install the new version, re-install the FEBE extension into the new version and use it to re-install my old Firefox data (you can just rename your old folder if you're paranoid).

use the PortableApps.com package and NOT the built in updater!
Since version 2.0.0.6 the built i updater messes with your local install.

@appsuser
You do know that you don't have to use the FEBE extension and you can just install the new package over the old o9ne without loosing your data?

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

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powerjuce

February 8, 2008 - 7:37am

or if you have firefox installed, first update your portable firefox then regular firefox

Please search before posting. ~Thanks

appsuser

February 9, 2008 - 7:45pm

@Simeon:
Thanks for clarifying...that's certainly easier and quicker for most people, and I'm sure fine in this situation...I've just gotten into the general habit of clean installs, working with Windows...

Muchambo

February 8, 2008 - 9:39am

It might be a good idea to turn off the built in update checker to stop people from using it and f*cking up their installation? I nearly clicked yes to download the update out of old habit when the update notification popped up...

John cant do that due to his license agreement with Mozilla.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Muchambo

February 10, 2008 - 4:45am

I didn't mean the portableapps team should change the sourcecode for Firefox. I was thinking about adding the line below to PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\prefs.js

user_pref("app.update.enabled", false);

Or is this also not possible to do? If so I would really love to know why.

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Tim Clark

February 10, 2008 - 4:54am

Muchambo

Welcome to PortableApps.com,

Unfortunately distributing any version of FF with that change IS changing the source code.

It was done in the past, it is not allowed now.

This is Mozilla's decision and there is nothing we can do about it without their permission.

Trust me, we wish we could

Tim

Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?

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Steve Lamerton

February 10, 2008 - 4:54am

isn't possible due to the licensing agreement John has with Mozilla. This allows him to use the Firefox name, which is trademarked, as long as he doesn't change the source, of which the settings files are included.

*edit* Looks like Tim beet me to it