Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.6 Beta 1

4.3 out of 5 stars 4.3 (560 votes)

BETA (November 3, 2009)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 54,288 downloads

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers. It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more.

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  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    anomoly

    Reviewing 3.6 Alpha 1 (Aug 11, 2009)

    Memory usage is reasonable at first glance. About the same as IE. On this page:
    http://www.madlibs.com/c...ory/funstuff/?g=madlibs just sitting open,
    It eventually doubles it's mem usage for no reason at all. Other than that it's fine.
    K-meleonccfme gets the same job done using less.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    anomoly

    Reviewing 3.5.1 (Jul 17, 2009)

    OOps post below is for the installer. I actually use this in the torbrowser.

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    anomoly

    Reviewing 3.5 RC3 (Jun 29, 2009)

    Very stabile and fast. However with no addons or plugins or anything, it still uses 60 MB of memory when minimized between it's 2 exe's.
    K-MeleonCCF?, which is also very portable?
    less than ten
    Good in the tor browser for sure. But definitely not my daily driver.

  4. 4 out of 5 stars
    caffeinejolt

    Reviewing 3.1 Beta 3 (Mar 18, 2009)

    I like the apps from portableaps.com and I think they allow users to try out betas easier than overwriting the local stable copy. I could not notice a huge speed increase with this beta, but I guess it seemed slightly snappier. I am hopeful Firefox can hit a homerun with this release and keep theor steady market share gains intact.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    Nahkanunna

    Reviewing 3.1 Beta 3 (Mar 18, 2009)

    Djucan & others having difficulties. It's normal to take longer the first time it starts as it checks extensions, converts old profile etc.

    Also the memory usage is better than almost any other browser. Getting better even.

    It's sad that fanboys give it 1 star, because they can - without any merit. Someone who doesnät know that much about software may even take your "review" into consideration.

    With B3 they have fixed some of the annoyances from previous beta, like last tab closing the browser with it, problems deleting items from history etc. I haven't installed all the normal extensions, so can't comment about the speed reliably yet. looks like a solid 5

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