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Using obscure releases of firefox portable

Hi there,

I have versions of firefox (29.0.1 and 27.0.2) that I need portable app's for but portable apps currently do not support this. I download the 29.0.1 .exe from firefox, extract the content, pull the firefox runnable exe and replace the it with the portable one from the PortableApp but this does not work. How can I generate a portable Firefox runnable exe from versions of firefox that are not offered on this site?

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Not Yet Released

There is currently no such thing as Firefox 29.0.1 as it hasn't been released yet (it will be if a bug fix is needed, though). There is also no such thing as Firefox 27.0.2 at all. Mozilla never made any such release. Basically, whatever you have is not Firefox and I would recommend against using it. If it's a version compiled by someone other than Mozilla, then it's illegal for it to use the name Firefox.

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John, the firefox versions I

John, the firefox versions I provided were merely an example. If you go to http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ you will see all the official mozilla releases, a lot of which portableapps do not currently have builds for. An example is 24.0b4, I would like a portable app for this but I have no way to generate a portable executable for it. That is my question, how can I do that.

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Extract

Ah ok. You can extract the contents of the full Firefox installers from there and place them within FirefoxPortable\App\firefox. We do that for the live installers for nightly builds, for example. One caveat is that it may not fully match. Firefox changes a bit every few releases and we adjust the launcher when needed to handle an additional registry key or similar. So, there may be some issues around that. Since this is for your personal use, likely for testing websites and the like, though, that shouldn't be a big deal.

You may not need to do the work, though. We probably already have the version you're looking for done.

We have our old releases right here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Mozilla%20Firefox%2C%...

And the old beta releases here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Mozilla%20Firefox%2C%...

And we do the current beta as well as Aurora, Nightly, Nightly 64-bit and ESR builds (which I'm updating now).

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Oh wow I must be blind! Thank

Oh wow I must be blind! Thank you so much for all the information.

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