Tag: FIREFOX-PORTABLE

Your default web browser in Windows is the one that opens any time you click a link to open a web page, open an HTML file, or take any other number of actions that would require a browser to load. It's typically pretty easy to make a browser your default. When you run Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, or Opera for the first time, odds are the browser will ask if you want to make it your ...

Curious about the first pre-release version of Firefox 3.7, but don't want to actually install it on your computer and risk messing up your Firefox profile? The folks at PortableAppz have put together a portable package. What that means is you can run Firefox 3.7a1pre as an executable file without installing it first. Instead of an installer, what you get when you download the portable version ...

In the few days since Firefox 3.5 was officially unleashed on the public, it's been downloaded well over 7 million times according to Mozilla's real-time download tracker. That's nowhere near the estimated 8 million downloads achieved in the first 24 hours after Firefox 3.0 launched, but it's still pretty good. It's also probably worth pointing out that anyone who was running Firefox 3.5 RC3 on ...

Those folks at PortableApps are getting faster and faster. Just a few hours after Firefox 3 beta 5 was released, the portable version was available for download. Actually, it might have been available immediately, but we didn't think to look for it until a few hours had passed. What exactly is a portable app? Well, in Windows, it basically means a version of an application that doesn't need to be ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2007/12/07/firefox-3-beta-goes-portable/';Want to test out Firefox 3 beta without messing up all of your precious Firefox 2 settings? Easy, just install the portable version. The Portable Apps developers have been doing a great job of pushing out versions of Firefox that can be run from a flash drive within a few days of every major Firefox release ...