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Portable Firefox 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 (Note: It will not run from read-only media like a CD-R).
To install, just download the ZIP and unzip it to the root directory of your USB drive. It will create a "firefox" directory and all the requisite directories underneath. To use Firefox on your drive, launch it with the PortableFirefox.exe file in the firefox directory. DO NOT launch the firefox.exe file directly, as this will create a profile on your hard drive or use an existing one. Additionally, be sure you've closed any local copies of Firefox and that they've finished shutting down. Otherwise, a new window of your local install will be launched. This is a feature of Firefox itself to prevent multiple copies running at the same time. When finished, exit Firefox and then wait for the activity light on your removable drive to stop flashing, then select the 'Safely remove [device]' option from the icon in the system tray. DO NOT just yank the usb drive out as Firefox may be writing to the disk after you've closed it.
Download(6.16 mb):
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/
To install, just download the ZIP and unzip it to the root directory of your USB drive. It will create a "firefox" directory and all the requisite directories underneath. To use Firefox on your drive, launch it with the PortableFirefox.exe file in the firefox directory. DO NOT launch the firefox.exe file directly, as this will create a profile on your hard drive or use an existing one. Additionally, be sure you've closed any local copies of Firefox and that they've finished shutting down. Otherwise, a new window of your local install will be launched. This is a feature of Firefox itself to prevent multiple copies running at the same time. When finished, exit Firefox and then wait for the activity light on your removable drive to stop flashing, then select the 'Safely remove [device]' option from the icon in the system tray. DO NOT just yank the usb drive out as Firefox may be writing to the disk after you've closed it.
Download(6.16 mb):
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/
