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FireFox 3 in Portable USB Edition

  June 20th, 2008



It's good to know the latest FireFox 3 has already been packaged by the good folks at PortableApps.com into portable USB edition, which allows you to carry around the the latest browser on your flash drives and additionally to allow you to test all the latest features of the new browser without messing around your current perfect FireFox installation. Based on the Gecko 1.9 rendering platform, FireFox 3 is reportedly 3 times faster than its predecessor and offers more than 1500 improvements, including the one-click bookmarking, tag system, smart location bar full page-zoom, Vista parental controls, anti-malware protection and platform-native look. This release weighing at 8MB can be installed 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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