Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 67.0.1 (web browser) Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on June 5, 2019 - 5:29pm

PortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 67.0.1. It's the 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. And it's open source and completely free. Firefox Portable is a dual-mode 32-bit and 64-bit app, ensuring Firefox runs as fast as possible on every PC.

Mozilla®, Firefox® and the Firefox logo are registered trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation and used under license.

Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.

Features

FirefoxPortable_small-Quantum.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...

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.

Download

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is available for immediate download from the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition homepage. You can get other localized releases from the Localizations section of the page. Get it today!

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I suppose it depends on your definition of portable. I just found out that this 67.0.1 is writing lots of info to my C:/users/appdata folders. Over 110 MB in just a half hour of browsing. Maybe the previous versions of FF Portable that I used were doing the same thing. This despite the fact I have the program installed on an external hard disk. My internal C drive is an aging SSD and I like portable apps because I don't want to wear out the SSD.

Can someone suggest a good portable browser that will not write to my internal drive at all, only to the external drive where it was installed? I'm posting this from Opera Portable. I don't see any folders named "Opera" in Appdata. But when I launch Opera I see the internal HD light flickering a little bit. So who knows what it's really doing.

Thanks very much, John. In Windows 7 Default Programs, I removed all the Firefox defaults and changed them to the installed Chrome on my C drive (I never use Chrome).

The result is that when I run Portable FF, it still creates Mozilla folders in C:/users/admin/appdata, in Local, LocalLow and Roaming, but after a browsing session, the ones in Local and LocalLow have zero bytes, and the one in Roaming has total of 30 bytes, which are all from crash reports.

So that's pretty negligible and OK. Is this normal behavior for FF Portable or is there a way to stop it from writing to C drive totally?

Should maybe move this discussion to the thread that you linked?

Another problem is that Firefox keeps updating the portable program without my consent on startup, despite the fact that I set it specifically to NOT do that. I thought that maybe their updates were making it no longer portable.