Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

Bullwinkle J Moose reviewed v60.0.1 on May 19, 2018

Pros: Could not find any Pros

Cons: Like the majority of software listed at Betanews, this one also triggers malware warnings

Bottom Line: Claims it is Windows XP Compatible
HAH

Firefox Extended Service Release v52 is XP Compatible but not Firefox v60

Could not try v60 in XP anyway as the 6 Virus threat warnings in Avast stopped me from installing this malware

Actual Rating is Minus 9000!

Sven123456789 reviewed v40.0.3 on Aug 28, 2015

My review is for the newer versions of Portable Firefox like this one. Like the new Firefox, its terrible. I'm lucky enough to have an older version of Portable Firefox. Portable software in general is great. Able to access these programs from your flash drives. Almost impossible to find older version of this. But for some reason you like the new firefox, give this a try. Just remember you have to install if to your flash drive. When setting up, make sure you choose that.

cltx99 reviewed v39.0 on Jul 4, 2015

The continuation of an excellent browser. In the past, I used Google Chrome, for a number of years. However, in the past couple of years I've been using FF and it has been the best of browsers and I've tried them all.

Ighome is my home page. It snaps to attention using FF and lags when using Chrome. Hands down, FF is the best browser out there.

-Lord- reviewed v38.0.5 on Jun 4, 2015

FF has become a MAJOR memory hole.

After a few minutes, has consumed over a gig of memory and bogs down ridiculously. In their effort to get bigger and better, they got worse and worse.

smokingbeagle reviewed v26.0 on Dec 11, 2013

Doesn't provide for importing bookmarks from installed version of FF?

Or have I missed something?

Zootopia3001 reviewed v25.0.1 on Nov 25, 2013

Guess this would be useful for some, especially for on the go. I keep Firefox from writing to hard drive simply by checking in the Privacy options to clear cache on exit. Nothing gets written to the cache folder that way, just goes to memory until the browser is closed.

Sven123456789 reviewed v21.0 on May 14, 2013

Don't think many pc users know about portable Firefox, or any portable software by asking around. In anycase. This is def. software I can't live without. A version of Firefox that you can install on your flash drive and use on any pc. Also a good way to try the latest version without installing if fully on ur pc. So you can get an idea if you like it or not. Takes a bit of fooling around to inport your desktop firefox settings, but its well worth it..

Andem reviewed v18.0 on Jan 10, 2013

Firefox used to be a great browser, but memory leak issues have never been resolved. The new rapid-release version numbers make me dizzy.

Thanks for providing a portable version, though. Firefox is still my favourite browser!

FatBastard reviewed v17.0 on Nov 21, 2012

I like Firefox but this version (17) enables Cleartype by default and that's HORRIBLE! !!

The only way I know to disable Cleartype in Firefox 17 is to disable hardware acceleration in the advanced settings.

If it wasn't for all this my rating would be 3/5

HeilNizar reviewed v10.0.2 on Feb 19, 2012

Any chance you will stop writing to AppData? I know its an empty folder for crash report etc, but I don't care, it makes me worry at night.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v7.0.1 on Oct 3, 2011

No major complaints from me except that the escalating version numbers have been deprecating perfectly fine addons real quick, argh. I used to crank up "maxversion" a notch in "install.rdf", but still annoying, so I took a chance and set them to "99.*" and I'll see how it goes in the next few years!

Also, as Blaxima rightfully pointed out, it can leave some leftovers behind, especially if an error log is created.

Otherwise, works fine: not worse then Opera/IE/Chrome, and the addons make it a more flexible choice for me. I downloaded Chrome Portable again but didn't get a chance to give it another go yet.

Blaxima reviewed v7.0 on Sep 28, 2011

FF 7 simply does not do what it says it does. Resources consumption has reduced slightly but no where near the 50% they claim. It looks and performs like a dated browser.

As for this portable version, it's not really portable seeing as it leaves folders all over the host computer

some guy reviewed v5.0 on Jun 22, 2011

great if a virus has crippled the browser and you need to load off a USB !

Virtual_ManPL reviewed v3.6.9 on Sep 10, 2010

5/5
And PORTABLE !!!

beelzebub360 reviewed v3.6.2 on Mar 27, 2010

One of the BEST Browser nd the Best in Quality nd Features..
Very Customisable
Fast
Bloat Free
Up there With Chromium , Opera ND Safari

anomoly reviewed v3.6 on Jan 22, 2010

Broke the google sharing xpi. I'll stick with 357 til the xpi is updated. I only run it very rarely anyways. Opera is my browser of choice.

anonymouscowturd reviewed v3.6 Beta 5 on Dec 22, 2009

For me, not as stable as the last beta. Crashed several times within a few hours of use.

anomoly reviewed v3.6 Alpha 1 on 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.

anomoly reviewed v3.5.1 on Jul 17, 2009

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

anomoly reviewed v3.5 RC3 on 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.

caffeinejolt reviewed v3.1 Beta 3 on 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.

Nahkanunna reviewed v3.1 Beta 3 on 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

Djuzan Belic reviewed v3.1 Beta 3 on Mar 18, 2009

Still nothing has changed about the most miserable parts of this browser, it's startup speed is ridiculously slow, also the interface reacts slow, browsing speed is sub-average, and memory- and cpu-usage are horrible.

prghon reviewed v3.1 Beta 2 on Jan 13, 2009

... takes about a minute to start the first time.

anomoly reviewed v3.1 Beta 2 on Dec 23, 2008

FF has become bloatware. 10,000 addon extensions blah blah blah. Waste of time. I just want a gui for the net. That's it. period.
I love my portable softwares and k-meleon works just fine for that as well. It doesn't need a facelift or gui tweaking and extensions are totally unnecessary. I can spend more time actually browsing than jerking off with the browser itself and it's incessant need to update my 10 or so ext's which half the time break and then you have to use mrtech toolkit blah blah blah.
I still keep portable thunderbird and it's now 141 MB folder. Portable ff was a similar size. K-meleon-only 31 MB-thank you very much.
http://fileforum.betanew...leonCCF_ME/1229113366/1
Used to swear by it but came to my senses and deleted every reference to it. I have zero issues browsing with k-meleon CCF ME 0.09 RC2 beta.
And as for it's true portability? I can get entire operating systems in smaller portable packages (after all the addons and bs).

ltsnow reviewed v3.1 Beta 2 on Dec 22, 2008

This entry is not good because the homepage points to 3.0.5. It's true you can convert that version to the new 3.1 beta, but it's not exactly a novice thing.

Virtual_ManPL reviewed v3.1 Beta 1 on Nov 1, 2008

The BEST browser for me !!!
Secure, fast, stable and powerfull with extensions !!!

@ anomoly - K-Meleon is very outdated now...
is based on old Gecko engine without Tracemonkey, Spidermonkey etc..
and have very annoying GUI...

nika27 reviewed v3.1 Beta 1 on Oct 16, 2008

Actually, Firefox memory usage did go down in v3:

http://blog.pavlov.net/2.../firefox-3-memory-usage/

mytake4this reviewed v3.1 Beta 1 on Oct 15, 2008

FF is a great browser, but memory use is very high. It was suppose to go down in v3 or v2, but it appears to me to be on the rise. As I type this, I see that peak memory use was at 122,344K and it is sitting at 111,825 right now. Aside of memory sucking, FF and Opera are the best. IE7 is good to have around though, as many sites still only work with IE. That's the way they code them.

anomoly reviewed v3.1 Beta 1 on Oct 15, 2008

CPU is simply way too high. Ap seems to need networking more than I beleive is necessary. Was OK a few back but now is slow and just a resource killer.
Switched to k-meleon as it BLAZES with virtually no resource use at all. K-meleon's not truly portable so I started using password safe again.

Sven123456789 reviewed v3.0.1 on Sep 1, 2008

I gave the regular version of firefox 3 a pretty negative review because of a ton a reasons raging from annoying address bar to many add ons not working. This portable version which i used for awhile, i dont use as many add ons and the negatives aren't as high for one good reason. I noticed a big speed difference for the better from this version vs. portable firefox 2.0.0.16. So thats why i give this a 4. For some reason, i saw no speed increase in regular firefox 3 vs. regular 2.0.0.16

petiot reviewed v3.0.1 on Jul 22, 2008

very good browser, having a portable version is priceless. Tones of useful add on obviously. People complaining about memory are certainly the same who don't raise an eyebrow when their windows installation sucks up 600 meg on boot up (no mentioning Vista with its 900meg+ memory usage at boot up)

However, since version 3, Firefox crashes when viewing VRML models using the Cortona plug in (the most used VRML plug on the market). Bug has been mentioned by some since beta version and still nothing is done.

shtraue reviewed v3.0.1 on Jul 21, 2008

Firefox 3 is the most memory efficient browser:

http://dotnetperls.com/Content/Browser-Memory.aspx

TGB72 reviewed v3.0 on Jun 18, 2008

Nice browser but the memory hog is intolerable, 60MB with no tabs loaded, they've had to many months to fix this and it's still there. A shame.

rburly reviewed v3.0 on Jun 18, 2008

I have to give the portable version 4 Stars. The download and installation went seamlessly. It's running "smooth as silk" after a few tweaks, for me. If you use a flash drive, I highly recommend this version.

McAleck reviewed v3.0 on Jun 18, 2008

only 3 tabs open and memory usage is already at 130+ megs!!! better memory usage, my ass!

dpcdpc11 reviewed v3.0 on Jun 18, 2008

just gives me a headache ready dumb review from all the freakin noobs who don't even know what they're talking about... these are the people that ruin the reputation of a good software... for example this guys says: "Installer not working integrity check error".. what the...!??!? integrity check my a** bro... either u got some virus over there that corrupts your installer or either you dld didn't go all the way... so stop say dumb s*** like that... and again the heavy memory usage of ram issue... so.. to be clear.. this is a PORTABLE version... all the cache is stored into RAM... duuhh... so it's normal to have a heavy ram load... so lets compare it to Opera 9.5 for example.. also portable version with 0 disk cache.. try opening 25 tabs in each browser... then close them and then open them back again... what's the point you say?? simple... at 25 tabs(with rich content.. not google.com type of page) firefox 'eats' about 180ram... Opera 'eats' over 200ram... and after you close all your tabs.. guess what? firefox empties the memory.. getting to something like 70-80ram... but opera keeps it at around 200... and if you open the same tabs again opera deosnt even know that the cache is already in the ram so what does it do? loads the content of the tabs again getting at over 250 ram... btw ff doesnt do that, it just loads the tabs again getting at 180ram... and u dont have to take my word for it... i'm not a FF fanboy or something... my main browser is K-Meleon... but when it comes to all... FF is the best solution out there... try the crap outta it and you'll see what i mean... also do the same with Opera 9.5 and IE7.. with IE pro installed of course... and don't get me that crap that Opera is faster... it is faster, at opening bad rendered pages... try the browse menu on deviantart.com for example... well that's enough headache for today.
have a good day ya'll!!

analphatester reviewed v3.0 on Jun 18, 2008

Installer not working
integrity check error

Blaxima reviewed v3.0 on Jun 17, 2008

This is my review of the regular version but I will add that the portable version has 2 processes running which makes this STILL memory hungry software use even more

Its getting better but its far from the best as many who really don't know what they are talking about spout of with.

It only loads and renders fast, it only uses less memory when compared to previous versions not when compared to other browsers.

How something so barebones still uses the amount of memory it does and can load so slow is beyond me. Plugins are great but not needed to achieve the same thing in other browsers. For example, Paste and Go, Speed Dial or compact menu are standard or one line of code in a ini (which is done for you with custom buttons) in Opera just to name a few. Foxy Proxy is the only reason I have this browser still otherwise it has no place on my system.

Don't beleive the hype and cheap tricks like setting records that don't exist

EDIT @dpcdpc11. Thats funny you should say that because I use Opera USB to compare the 2 so....

TGB72 reviewed v3.0 RC2 on Jun 13, 2008

Fast than v2.
While 3.0 betas crashed very often this is a very stable build.
Don't like to much the silly additions on bookmark's sidebar (recent bookmarked. recent tags, get...).
Still using to much memory (60MB with one plain html page loaded), unacceptable.
Curious, while the RC1 executable say "version 1.9" this build says "version 1.5.11" o_O

anomoly reviewed v3.0 RC2 on Jun 5, 2008

LAME quotes
"It still loads and renders slow"
"less features out of the box"
Mozilla (sorry this is just FF-damn!) is a better browser than Opera ever will hope to be.

run it, copy over, & open it.
RC or not, why does it never say this (??? v3.0rc2 ???) anywhere? Built-in updater never works.
If an update is available then the builtin updater should damn well say so & not give me some lame aus error.
'Til a new internet is invented FF will stay the #1 browser for any OS on any pc anywhere.

improvelence reviewed v3.0 RC2 on Jun 5, 2008

Blaxima, you have a point...all these years, I just...I didn't realize what I was doing....I guess it's not Opera that I hate....it's....myself.

:(

No...wait, I still hate Opera.

Good point nonetheless.

Blaxima reviewed v3.0 RC2 on Jun 5, 2008

@improvelence-what a f'n hypocrite you are, you do the exact same thing to Opera

I wonder if people playing high and mighty talking about actually testing software do it themselves.

FF3 STILL uses far too much memory, up to 5x that of Opera and this portable version has 2 processes running to add to that problem. The fact that it requires more memory yet has less features out of the box to rivals is unexceptable. Add to that the breaking of the plugins with most releases, not all are broken but the few that I use are and the great plugins are thanks to the community and not a credit to the browser.

It still loads and renders slow
http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/

@anomoly - Yes I see now how test results can't compare to your lame rebuttals

cricri_pingouin reviewed v3.0 RC1 on May 21, 2008

Very good, my browser of choice. It replaced IE and Maxthon on all my computer. And instead of having to bother backing up settings, I can now just copy my whole Firefox portable folder to have Firefox running the way I like, with add-ons and bookmarks.

mytake4this reviewed v3.0 RC1 on May 19, 2008

FF3 is very good, as is FF2 and Opera. The previous post which indicated that plugins are needed to make this software work, is kinda humorous. I assume he means that you need add-ons, which to that I would say, a few add-ons does help with the experience, though without them, it works just fine -- much better than ie7, in fact. Being able to choose those add-ons you wish to use, is a good thing. Perhaps some could be standard. As for comments on Opera, I find that one very good for the business I do on the Net, as it will not crash as easy as FF on a particular site I must use, and the address bar opening a new tab each time is also useful during work sessions. For browsing and most of the day, I would say the FF experience is somewhat better. There are some sites which FF works better and some where Opera works better, and I rarely need to use ie7, or use ie7 tab on FF2. I do like search with FF3. I noted no memory use improvements while using FF3 however.
It is a good browser, and I will upgrade to FF3. Currently used FF3 only as portable app.

Sven123456789 reviewed v3.0 Beta 5 on Apr 26, 2008

You gave the same review L4zy1 to regular firefox. Now i know your not actually testing this software. You wouldn't know how to use a portable version of software if it was given to you for free. I use portable Firefox all the time. Its one of the best software products to come out in years. Keep up the good work.

improvelence reviewed v3.0 Beta 5 on Apr 11, 2008

Again, L4zy1 must troll around the boards to mask his stubbornness to admit that Opera sucks.

L4zy1 reviewed v3.0 Beta 5 on Apr 8, 2008

firefox is crap that takes multiple plugins just to start to become useful

bigspud reviewed v3.0 Beta 5 on Apr 4, 2008

almost the perfect browser.
portable for easy back-up, usb use.
very fast page rendering.
3700+ extensions to modify it.
some webpages dont render properly, mostly due to ignorant webpage creators.
i wish all appz were portable.

poisonu reviewed v3.0 Beta 5 on Apr 4, 2008

It's a Very Good browser....
..& on track to be a Great browser when it becomes final release....

Banquo reviewed v3.0 Beta 2 on Dec 19, 2007

screwdiversity, I'm not sure what you are doing but the bookmarks sort themselves the same as always on mine, with folders at the top. So far I've run into no issues as of yet and it seems a lot snappier than previous versions. Just a minor nitpick, I don't like the grabber located between the address bar and search bar. Fortunately it's easy to remove (right click, select customize and add a flexible space). Have not tried all my extensions yet but I expect they will need to be updated anyway.

I left Firefox for Opera about a year ago, but if this version keeps shaping up as well as it is I will probably be switching back to Firefox.

screwdiversity reviewed v3.0 Beta 2 on Dec 19, 2007

Why doesn't this 3.0 version sort Bookmarks like 2.0?? It won't put the folders at the top of the sort. Instead it sorts everything by name. This is annoying as hell.. Also why can't they fix the damn tabbed browsing to work like Avant Browser?? I hate this reusing of current Tab even when you have it deselected...

Sven123456789 reviewed v3.0 Beta 2 on Dec 19, 2007

Shows allot of promise. Nice new features. Still can't say enough about these portable apps. Just have your flash drive on your key chain and your good to go for browsing on a non home pc.

anomoly reviewed v3.0 Beta 1 on Dec 3, 2007

Other than being highly secure; noscript,adblockplus,& securelogin, it disabled my favorite newest addons: sxipper, piclens, trackmenot, trashmail, & nosquint.
give some take some
at least it kept my nasa theme
The BEST!
BTW, the dev version of sxipper now works with FF 3 beta-yeah!

shtraue reviewed v2.0.0.10 on Nov 28, 2007

Regarding Flash, I forgot to add last time, that if you find the instruction I mentioned before, confusing, you could try (perhaps) a less confusing method for Flash to work in portable Firefox - to download an alternative build of Firefox which includes Flash already in it:

http://weblog.pigfoot.org/pigfoot/

Then you would need to delete everything in this folder:

Z:\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\

And extract the alternative build into this folder instead.

Just to note, there also other alternative builds of Firefox (which you can use with portable Firefox too), my favorite:

http://www1.plala.or.jp/...009/en-US/software.html

And this one, author of this build also makes 64-bit build of Firefox:

http://www.vector64.com/WindowsBuilds.html

Good Luck!

shtraue reviewed v2.0.0.9 on Nov 18, 2007

I use both portable and regular install of Firefox. I've installed Flash for the regular FF, compared FF directory before and after installation of Flash, and then copied these files to my portable FF from the regular FF folder:

Z:\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\plugins\NPSWF32.dll
Z:\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\plugins\NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe
Z:\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\components\flashplayer.xpt

Umapathy reviewed v2.0.0.9 on Nov 17, 2007

I love the product. No doubt about it. But I don't find a work around to install the flash to the protable firefox. If any body knows the trick of installing flash to the portable firefox please let me know. I need this to access the Yahoo! messeger from portable firefox with chat facility. Thanks in advance.

why hello there reviewed v2.0.0.9 on Nov 16, 2007

Great product use portableapps programs alot because of how nice they are though I should learn how to make loaders as all this is, is firefox with a loader and some things are packed.

Might just use the optimized build pack it and put it in this instead.

anomoly reviewed v2.0.0.9 on Nov 16, 2007

Interesting as the installer version defaulted to my slave drive location and the about screen shows no difference with the portable version running.
Best addon lately is Sxipper 1.1.1 (form filler)

anomoly reviewed v2.0.0.8 on Oct 23, 2007

BS! All options are same as installer INCLUDING smooth scroll option.
On first run to a new pc it defaults to basic setup. Needs to run a second time to configure for your personal browsing pleasure

kashin reviewed v2.0.0.6 on Sep 5, 2007

What kind of idiot gives this a rating of 1 because it doesn't have smooth scrolling?? Seriously. The first thing I turn off on both IE and Firefox is smooth scrolling. It's probably the most annoying "feature" in a browser.

Sven123456789 reviewed v2.0.0.6 on Aug 15, 2007

I have a flash drive and find myself using my friends pc allot, so i gave this a try. Works good. Just like my normal firefox browser. Really no problems with this.

Jim reviewed v2.0.0.6 on Aug 1, 2007

Still no smooth scrolling, my rating will drop to 3 if its added and default, 1 if forced, and 5 if added but disabled by default. I hate smooth scrolling, it just reduces responsiveness, making it feel terribly slow. and its not like you can really read it while its doing its little smooth scrolling thing anyway.

anomoly reviewed v2.0.0.6 on Jul 31, 2007

Interesting that no matter what your os or pc does this stays the same and you NEVER lose a beat. All I use.

Paul Skinner reviewed v2.0.0.5 on Jul 19, 2007

@xproject51:

One feature is missing and you give it a 1.

Anyway, it's working wonderfully for me.

xproject51 reviewed v2.0.0.4 on Jun 25, 2007

Still no smooth scrolling. Sorry for giving it a 1.

It's like srolling in Notepad, no thanks.

anomoly reviewed v2.0.0.1 on Feb 16, 2007

compressing works fine. just change the shortcut included. about 15mb on external hd. Seems to have automatically grabbed all my shorts and addons etc. Wonder if it will act the same when I run it on anothers pc?
It doesn't. you must configure it to act as a standalone. Or you might as well just install it as use this. In other words if all you need are your books, use those instead

Paul Skinner reviewed v2.0.0.1 on Feb 15, 2007

At last.

The MAZZTer reviewed v2.0.0.1 on Feb 15, 2007

Only problem I've found with this is that Firefox tends to make a lot of backups of the bookmarks, whenever you change anything, and it can pause for 5-10 seconds while doing so.

Other than that, the only problem I have is that there was no effort made to compress Firefox with UPX or any other tool (if you do it yourself, don't compress PortableFirefox.exe... NSIS does a checksum on itself so compression will break it).

However I recommend anyone with a portable drive check out all the programs in this series... the wrapper to make them all portable is well done, and some very good apps were chosen.

zhengx reviewed v2.0 on Nov 29, 2006

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

satyajith reviewed v2.0 on Nov 24, 2006

this is really good

rickdog reviewed v2.0 on Nov 20, 2006

I've used Portable Firefox for over a year now, it has several advantages. You can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved sessions with you. For transporting, I zip it onto a thumbdrive, then unzip it to hard disk to use, it's much faster running that way.

Frostek reviewed v2.0 on Nov 20, 2006

Always handy for when I go travelling.

sorlag reviewed v2.0 RC2 on Oct 9, 2006

Nice app. I like the portable app approach.
I already tought BetaNews is closed, cause they update that slow... several days no updates.
Please change that, make more frequent updates.

zhengx reviewed v2.0 RC1 on Oct 5, 2006

Good.
I like it.

bugmenot reviewed v2.0 Beta 2 on Sep 28, 2006

The product is fine.
The problem is with BetaOlds...
I'm having this release from 1-st of Sept.
Posted date here is Sept 27... wtf?

midfingr reviewed v2.0 Beta 2 on Sep 27, 2006

Excellent. Firefox 2 looks to be on the right track. I like the portable idea; just extract and use.

Ian C. reviewed v2.0 Beta 2 on Sep 26, 2006

Great for taking FF with me to use on the horribly slow campus computers, which are slow cause everything loads of the horribly overloaded network. Plus it beats using outdated versions of Firefox that they have available, 1.0.x I think.

ModderXManiac reviewed v2.0 Beta 2 on Sep 26, 2006

Silentmaster101 is probably a whining system administrator at a school who tries to censor children from the truth that is the internet.

Deal with it, this is more secure than Internet Explorer will ever hope to be, so security holes, you're greatly mistaken.

I love this app, I love all portable apps, and Firefox just downright owns.

benZin reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Jul 25, 2006

Simply excellent !

wippypitt reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on May 12, 2006

Umm.. very fast but sometimes becomes unstable. I agree with Silentmaster101 that it would creates a security holes, but isn't that what you were paid to fix?

qrst reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on May 11, 2006

Silentmaster101: I hope you now write a bad review for ALL portable apps just because you're a bad admin. Anyway, I'd rather recommend the stable versions for common use.

AlanS2001 reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on May 2, 2006

Silentmaster101: If you don't want people to be able to run binaries off thumb-drives, don't let their computers be able to mount thumb-drives. You not doing your job properly is not a reason to give this program a low rating.

Silentmaster101 reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Apr 21, 2006

great just what we need another way for users to get around our web filtering and creating security holes without being able to be blocked by not allowing installation. wonderful thank you ff crew....

Don Juan reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Apr 21, 2006

Hmmm... Looks exactly like 1.5.x accept it's much faster. Still uses a good bit of memory.

I'm lovin these portable apps. Was nice to test this out without the risk of hosing my 1.5 installation. Seems very stable as well. Guess I'd have to install some extensions to see for sure though.

I'm also lovin the portable Gimp, no more fussing with getting it to work simultaneously with Gaim, since they both rely on different versions of GTK.

anomoly reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Apr 20, 2006

Sweet. Thanks especially for the upx tip

Kramy reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Apr 20, 2006

Blaxima: Please quit trolling.

Leaving a pluginreg.dat file is a firefox problem, not a PortableFirefox problem. What you're doing here is equivalent to rating Maxthon a 0 because the IE engine sucks ass. Everyone knows IE is at the bottom of the pile, and everyone knows Maxthon is up there with Opera and other high quality browsers.

Portable Firefox is stable, fast, and bloat free - really impressive compared to how the standard installed versions are setup by default.

...you post more exaggerations about the start time. Perhaps if you didn't run it off a 11mbit USB1.1 port, and instead ran it off standard harddrive(600mbit?), you'd get better start speeds.

Blaxima reviewed v2.0 Alpha 1 on Apr 20, 2006

Portable? Ha, don't make me laugh.

Not only is this firefox, which uses way too much memory, loads slower than my Photoshop and still can only view 80% of webpages correctly. This is not a true portable. When I take my usb drive and use it on someone elses computer I'm sure they don't want me leaving files on it. Well just like big brother this does just that. It is unacceptable for a "portable" app to create folders and files on the hard drive that remain long after me and my usb are gone.

Your better off getting the Maxthon zip ansi version. Oh whats that, Maxthon is built on IE's engine and therefor isn't as safe? HAHAHAHA, maybe you FF supporters should do some reading instead of gum flapping.

The Good
http://secunia.com/product/4110/

The Bad
http://secunia.com/product/4227/

and The Ugly
http://secunia.com/product/11/

and Maxthon can use FF's geko engine too (althoug there is no need to do such a silly thing)

2stars for some nice skins and plugins made by FF users

teranova52 reviewed v1.5.0.1 on Apr 7, 2006

I just love that software ..
Yes its a bit slow at start up, but after this, its a life saver.

azimov reviewed v1.5.0.1 on Apr 7, 2006

there are two things you can do.
1: You can easily get you installtion on your PC and copy over the contents of the firefox folder over. Ok, it will not be compressed.
2: You can get UPX.com file compression and compress the executables. http://upx.sourceforge.net/

the most important part of portable firefox is the portablefirefox.exe file, that allows you to have your profile on your usb memory device.

mjm01010101 reviewed v1.5.0.1 on Apr 6, 2006

Seems like this takes a while to come out, negating the point?

Am I gonna wait for portable FF, or just use regular FF and keep it updated?

Oh well.

zee7 reviewed v1.5 on Apr 6, 2006

An absolutely necessary piece of software. Compact, reliable, and oh so fast!

womfalcs7 reviewed v1.5 on Mar 7, 2006

I love this, installed it on my USB drive fairly recently. I use it at school all the time and I take all the extensions and bookmarks I have at home with it. It's starts up smoothly and the functionality is unmatched. I would DEFINITELY recommend it.

xdeimox reviewed v1.5 on Dec 15, 2005

I'll second Kramy's comment, I find FF to be fairly unusable (constant stability issues, cpu usage spikes on largish webpages, and weird glitches like extensions magically disapearing).

I decided to give this a try since I was bored one day at work and had my pen drive. I was sick of using IE there and the FF install was fairly outdated and annoyed me just as much as IE.

I installed this set it up with all my extensions and the skin I like and haven't had a single problem in this last week.

I'm now running this on all my computers at home and haven't had a problem on any of them.

Congrats to the Portable Developers and keep up the good work. This is honestly the first browser since Opera 6 that doesn't piss me off in some way.

Kramy reviewed v1.5 on Dec 9, 2005

Incredibly fast startup speed, works from USB memory drives, and it renders pages ultra fast!

This makes up for a lot of annoyances people typically have with Firefox!

To anyone interested, these are the registry keys I believe have to be pointed to PortableFirefox.exe to use it in a *not portable* way.(taken from my Win2k install)
-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----
KeyA = E:\Internet Software\Portable Firefox\PortableFirefox.exe "%1"
KeyB = E:\Internet Software\Portable Firefox\PortableFirefox.exe
KeyC = E:\Internet Software\Portable Firefox\PortableFirefox.exe -preferences

KeyA:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\
CHROME\shell\open\command]
FirefoxHTML\shell\open\command]
ftp\shell\open\command]
gopher\shell\open\command]
http\shell\open\command]
https\shell\open\command]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\
CHROME\shell\open\command]
FirefoxHTML\shell\open\command]
ftp\shell\open\command]
gopher\shell\open\command]
http\shell\open\command]
https\shell\open\command]

KeyB:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\
StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\open\command]

KeyC:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\
StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\properties\command]

merklijm reviewed v1.5 on Dec 9, 2005

For the viper :
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/defaultbrowser.htm
allows you to define your default browser.

Kramy reviewed v1.5 RC3 on Nov 29, 2005

UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS LISTED ON HOMEPAGE

I must say that this rocks! Firefox was slow before, but now that I lost everything to a HD crash I might as well start again the more efficient way. FF starts up in ~2 seconds, as does thunderbird!

Also, I have about 35 sites open and it's only using about 100mb of memory...really - all the text labels are gone and all I have is icons! :P

I don't use tabs though.

-Viper- reviewed v1.5 RC3 on Nov 22, 2005

I used this program for awhile and loved it but the thing that I hated was when I click on a link and it 'opens default browser' it goes to the firefox link not the portable firefox link (dont know why there's two in the first place) and all my settings are for the portable firefox.

bobad reviewed v1.5 RC3 on Nov 20, 2005

Pretty nice. I downloaded this product a while back, then grabbed a few plugins (A chore I hate) to make it as easy to use as Maxthon or Avant, and there is little dropoff in quality and features. I installed this version, and to my dismay, all my settings were overwritten. That wasn't very nice. All that configuring to do over again! Nearly ruined my morning! Sorry, this program can't be considered top notch until the it is more mature about such things. No big loss, because I have already ran across 3 pages this morning alone that wouldn't render correctly. (Not blaming the Portable developers!) It's a work in progress. Keep up the good work!

JonathanDoe reviewed v1.5 RC3 on Nov 19, 2005

Works nice as always.

Josh P. reviewed v1.0.6 Beta on Aug 21, 2005

Firefox rocks, and portable firefox rocks just as hard. This is awesome for library use, when the morons wont let you install anything :)

They'll never know..

Josh

TIMxIRISH reviewed v1.0.6 Beta on Aug 12, 2005

Great program to keep on my flash drive for when I'm at a buddy's house or at work (where FireFox is only a dream!). Great program, hands down.

teranova52 reviewed v1.0.6 Beta on Jul 28, 2005

YES thats a fantastic idea , i give a 1000 points as rating .

But i have a problem with the pdf files , i do not know how to update the browser to show them right .
I have problem to even download a PDF .
A bit confused , but this Proggy is just a life savor :-)

My bookmarks AND Passwords always with me :-)
Fantastic !!!

gchenry reviewed v1.0.5 Beta on Jul 17, 2005

1.0.5 Beta - July 13, 2005
Updated to Firefox 1.0.5
Updated launcher:
Added Mozilla Calendar support
Added support for split Data and Apps directories (detailed in readme)
1.0.4 Release Candidate 2 - May 17, 2005
Fixed compression of the Firefox directory
Released to general public
1.0.4 Release Candidate 1 - May 12, 2005
Updated to Firefox 1.0.4
Updated to PFF Launcher 1.0.8 (adds suppport for renaming firefox.exe)
Removed INI from main directory
Limited release to 1.0.3 users

bugmenot reviewed v1.0.4 RC2 on May 22, 2005

This is a great program. I currently use Portable Firefox at school and the difference it makes is great. Everything I love about Firefox but made for portability on a usb key or other media.

Canuckistani reviewed v1.0.4 RC2 on May 19, 2005

Firefox portable is a pretty nifty thing. I just want to respond to irdepesca572 point there is no "they". It's just John doing it in his spare time.

fourte3n reviewed v1.0.4 RC2 on May 18, 2005

Good work..! 1.04RC :D

irdepesca572 reviewed v1.0.3 Beta on May 14, 2005

Also, Firefox 1.0.4 was released just a little while ago and they should update this to that.

eL MaesTro reviewed v1.0.3 Beta on May 14, 2005

eeehrrrmm , am I missing something? This was released the 27th of April....

today is the 14th of May 0_o

AlanS2001 reviewed v1.0.3 Beta on May 14, 2005

@funcheung: Read the homepage of the program.

funcheung reviewed v1.0.3 Beta on May 14, 2005

Where's P-ffx 1.0.4? Is it a little bit "outdated" when Firefox is already 1.0.4, with major fixes of security threats. Your saying it's just 1.0.3 BETA!!!

Come on, catch up the time!

Aaroniekins reviewed v1.0.2 Beta on Apr 7, 2005

Great for when you need your bookmarks/passwords etc on the run..also good if you dont want history of your doingd on the public computers/work
Everyone i know uses this
given a 5

jurgenvdpol reviewed v1.0.2 Beta on Apr 7, 2005

This doesn't even work from a local drive!
I just get a 'document contains no data' error
Recyclebin material....
Oops mcafee firewall... exellent programming! :-)

kid.tekila.pl reviewed v1.0.2 Beta on Apr 7, 2005

absolutely amazing!

utomo reviewed v1.0.2 Beta on Apr 7, 2005

What I think is
http://johnhaller.com/jh...la/portable_thunderbird/
Portable thunderbid is more usefull compared to portable firefox.
as we need to be able to access email on the way.
I hope they will update the portable thunderbird soon. and reduce the problems which still exist. such as Junk Mail Filter.

And on website they must add :
e-mail client makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with new features like intelligent spam filters, saved search folders, RSS support, privacy protection and much more.

fuqfascism reviewed v1.0 on Jan 17, 2005

the best thing to happen to web browsing since firefox itself!

bluhound reviewed v1.0 on Nov 24, 2004

This program is a real livesaver......

Mark Gillespie reviewed v1.0 on Nov 19, 2004

Helped me out recently, as whilst in India, I needed to check my GMail account. The net cafe I was at only had IE5 on Win98, and GMail needs IE5.5 oe NS6 or better.

A quick download of portable firefox to my flash drive, I was reading my Gmail without problem!

sfo reviewed v1.0 on Nov 19, 2004

This is really a product that is useful. It solves a real problem (not being able to use Firefox on certain locked-down computers. Excellent!

Boogs reviewed v1.0 on Nov 18, 2004

This is an awesome use of a jumpdrive!

Great product!

Canuckistani reviewed v1.0 on Nov 18, 2004

This is pretty great for those of us who travel a lot though I try to use slax as much as possible as I can use an entire portable OS including Firefox. This is definately going on my jump drive for those instances when I have to use the Windows computer at hand. It wasn't posted here for some reason, but there is also a portable Thunderbird mail client avialable, as well, at the authors website:
http://johnhaller.com/jh...la/portable_thunderbird/

I was going to give this 4 stars as a complete OS such as Knoppix, SLAX or even Damn Small Linux is probably a better chouce overall. But, Portable Thunderbird clinched the 5. Outstanding work.

eviljolly reviewed v1.0 on Nov 18, 2004

Can't say I have a key drive to try this program, but the idea is genius!

p0rt1s reviewed v1.0 on Nov 18, 2004

Wonderful! This program needs to win an award!

randal2k reviewed v1.0 on Nov 18, 2004

This is an awsome product. I can run firefox on any workstation that i have to use here at work, perfect.
As well, as showing the IS guys that there code needs work lol.

all in all great job, extensions work great too. good work!

Aires reviewed v1.0 on Nov 18, 2004

@veeoh: Yes I used to use Firefox and would again now this has been released. Basically a very good idea for a USB drive.

war593122 reviewed v1.0 on Nov 18, 2004

Dont u hate when people give bad reviews when they have not even tried it. Just makes u look liek a dumb ass!!!

This rocks. Working perfectly. No bugs found yet.

Besides the known ones that is. ;)

SFAMonkey reviewed v1.0 on Nov 18, 2004

It great. What it does is takes the firefox files and make them smaller and make very use to run firefox with you settings from jumpdrive flashdrive, mp3 player, zip disk, and so on.

veeoh reviewed v1.0 on Nov 18, 2004

ill give it three because it uses Firefox, but im not really sure of the use of this? Any one actually use this?