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Sunbird Portable 0.2 Rev 5 and 0.3 Alpha 2 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 31, 2006 - 2:10pm

Firefox logoPortable Sunbird is now Mozilla Sunbird - Portable Edition (Sunbird Portable among friends), and versions 0.2 Revision 5 and 0.3 Alpha 2 have been released. For the unfamiliar, Sunbird Portable is the handy Mozilla Sunbird calendar packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your schedule and to-do lists with you. This new release adds in a ton of new features, including: the ability to run from a CD, in-place upgrades, lots of handy bug fixes, support for running within Wine on *nix and more. Read on for all the details...

Firefox Portable 1.5.0.5 & 2.0 Beta 1 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 27, 2006 - 3:51pm

Firefox logoPortable Firefox is now Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition (Firefox Portable among friends), and version 1.5.0.5 has been released. It's the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. This new release adds in a ton of new features, including: the ability to run from a CD, complete Firefox partial update support, in-place upgrades, lots of handy bug fixes, support for running within Wine on *nix and more. And this release is also paired with releases of Firefox Portable 1.0.8 and Firefox Portable 2.0 Beta 1 using the same updated launcher, for all the web developers and testers out there. Read on for all the details...

Portable FileZilla 2.2.23a Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on May 23, 2006 - 12:40pm

FileZilla logoPortable FileZilla 2.2.23a has been released as a multilingual package. Portable FileZilla is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your ftp client, server list and settings with you. This version updates the included FileZilla binaries to 2.2.23a (fixing a critical security issue) and switches to using split App/Data directories.

Get it from the Portable FileZilla homepage on PortableApps.com.

Unfortunately, FileZilla has dropped support for Win 95/98/Me with the 2.2.23 release. Portable FileZilla 2.2.22 still supports them.

Portable VLC Media Player 0.8.5 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on May 8, 2006 - 4:44pm

VLC logoPortable VLC Media Player 0.8.5 has been released as a multilingual package. Portable VLC is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. It plays most types of audio and video files -- including MPEG, WMV, DivX, XviD, ogg, mp3, etc -- and is under 12MB.

Get it from the Portable VLC Media Player homepage at PortableApps.com.

Portable Firefox 1.5.0.3 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on May 3, 2006 - 2:02am

Firefox logoPortable Firefox 1.5.0.3 has been released. Portable Firefox is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. New in this version is:

  • Update to Firefox 1.5.0.3
  • Fixes for custom plugins and userprofile directories
  • Download size decreased to 4.8MB

Get it from the Portable Firefox homepage at PortableApps.com.

Portable Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on May 1, 2006 - 12:28pm

Thunderbird logoPortable Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 has been released. Portable Thunderbird is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged with a PortableApps Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you. It's also available packaged with GPG and Enigmail pre-configured if you wish to encrypt and sign your email. New in this version is:

  • Update to Thunderbird 1.5.0.2
  • New self-extracting package download (only 5.9MB)
  • New App/Data internal directories for easy backups
  • Improved GPG/Enigmail support
  • Fix for default mail client check
  • New localization instructions so you can use PTB in your own language

Get it from the Portable Thunderbird homepage at PortableApps.com.

Portable Firefox 1.5.0.2 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on April 28, 2006 - 12:38pm

Firefox logoPortable Firefox 1.5.0.2 has been released. Portable Firefox is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. New in this version is:

  • Update to Firefox 1.5.0.2
  • New self-extracting package download (only 5MB)
  • New App/Data internal directories for easy backups
  • New localization instructions so you can use PFF in your own language

Get it from the Portable Firefox homepage at PortableApps.com.

Portable FileZilla 2.2.22 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on April 21, 2006 - 11:24am

FileZilla logoPortable FileZilla 2.2.22 has been released as a multilingual package. Portable FileZilla is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your ftp client, server list and settings with you. This version updates the included FileZilla binaries to 2.2.22, fixing an issue with the Queue pane and adding the ability to clear the QuickConnect history.

Get it from the Portable FileZilla homepage on PortableApps.com.

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