FireFox 3 Beta 5 Goes Portable

April 9th, 2008

It's good to know the latest FireFox 3 beta 5 has already been packaged by the good folks at PortableApps.com into portable USB edition, which allows you to test all the latest features of the upcoming version without messing around your current perfect FireFox installation. Based on the Gecko 1.9 rendering platform, FireFox beta 5 includes some 750 changes from previous version. Among the new additions are malware protection; anti-virus integration; Vista parental controls; a new download manager; improved Windows icons; and speed improvements to Javascript engine. This release weighing at 8MB will install alongside FireFox 2.0 Portable Edition under PortableApps suite so the two are completely separated from each other.

Filed under USB Apps for Flash Drives

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