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Milic
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Testing Firefox 7 "Aurora" in portable mode

At some point it was possible to install a beta of Firefox and switch to Aurora channel (now in v7)
Would it be possible to reintroduce such beta version of Portable FF?
I have been trying to play around with current v5 which can be upgraded to v6 beta as of yesterday, but no Aurora ...

Thanks

PS I wanna test the "lower memory consumption" feature Wink

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If you just want to test a

If you just want to test a feature in Aurora, download the latest Aurora build from over here and extract it to [X]:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox

P.S. If you have over 2GB RAM, the changes will make no difference. Firefox automatically (by design) uses up more RAM if and when its available to increase performance.

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Well thats what I did and I

Well thats what I did and I am getting some C++ errors so I am not sure its possible
(moved files from Core subdirectory to the portable Firefox one)

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Could you post the errors?

Could you post the errors?

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Tried again and this time ...

Tried again and this time ... no errors ... WTH ...
I am getting other errors due to extensions but thats something else ...
Lets keep it at that for now.

BTW FF7 seems really fast or is the placebo effect of some sort? Smile

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Okay, any screenshots? Or

Okay, any screenshots? Or does Firefox Portable not even open at all?

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