PortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 5.0.1 in 17 languages. It's the latest 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. This release updates Firefox to the latest release and improves portability. 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...
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.
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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 other localized releases from the Localization page. Get it today!
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Mac vs Windows Release
For the confused, the 5.0.1 release of Firefox is to fix some issues on the Mac version of Firefox. No changes are made on the Windows side other than updating the version number (so it is not being pushed via Firefox's built-in updater... which will only add to the confusion). In the portable release, we've also fixed a bug some users were experiencing on Windows XP when run as admin with specific plugins/extensions.
3.6.19?
Firefox 3.6.19 was also released.
will a portable version come?
Building
It's building. You can always check the status on the Outdated Releases page ( https://portableapps.com/node/19705 ) which you'll find one click away from the Development page which you'll find linked at the top of this page. In the future, please post any outdated notices there. We build the legacy builds (3.6.x) after the current builds (5.0.x).
updating??
im running firefox 5.0 and when i check the about firefox, and click check for updates it says its up to date.?.?.?
Re-Read
See this comment: https://portableapps.com/news/2011-07-12_-_firefox_portable_5.0.1_releas...
As such, they're NOT pushing it out over Firefox's built-in updater.
FYI
The Firefox setup exe download at Mozilla is tagged 5.0.1.
Perhaps we can all save some effort and hang with 5.0 until 5.0.2 is released. Unless that's just for Linux.
Mac Only
5.0.1 is an unscheduled update due to some issues in the 5.0 Mac build. When 5.0.1 was released for Mac, they posted 5.0.1 builds for Windows and Linux to keep them all consistent. These builds are *unchanged* from 5.0 for Linux and Windows and, as such, are not being pushing via automatic update.
outdated graphic on download page
John,
I noticed on the FF download page that next to the comment
"Like Firefox Portable? You'll love having Firefox on your PC: "
the icon still says Firefox 3.6
It's a minor nitpick, but would we want to update the graphic sometime?
/sylikc
Yes
For a long time, they werent updated, but it looks like they are now: http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/buttons/
Removed
These were a vestige of the Spread Firefox project when we helped get others to download Firefox from Mozilla for local use as well. There were leaderboards of the referrers and things of that nature in addition to community ideas to get people to try Firefox. As the Spread Firefox project is now dead, I've removed the buttons.
Flash cookies
Portable Firefox 5.0 / 5.0.1 runs fine, but there's one unwanted side effect:
When I select the option to remove all cookies when closing the app, it also removes all the flash cookies in the directory
C:\Documents and Settings\[USER NAME]\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\
Not just the flash cookies that were added during the portable session, but ALL of them... Very unpractical for the person whose computer I'm using (game settings etc). Aren't portable apps supposed to leave behind the PC they're being used on as if nothing had happened?
Can anything be done about this. This is the sole feature that prevents me from switching to PortableFirefox 5 (or PortableFirefox 4 by the way, wwhich does exactly the same thing). Portable Firefox 3.6.xx didn't do this...
Windows XP - SP3
Nope
Flash stores all data at the PC's user level across all browsers (local and portable) and all flash-based apps. There is just a single huge data store for all of it. Even Firefox installed locally will remove all flash cookies for IE, Opera, Safari, Chrome, standalone flash games, etc. Basically, the feature shouldn't be used unless you understand exactly what it is.
Source link
The source link on the app page takes you to Filezilla Portable on Sourceforge, not Firefox's source.