Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition

your browser, your way… in your pocket™

Mozilla Firefox_®, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

Download 3.0.8 for Windows, English
8MB download / 27-77MB* installed Languages | Other Versions | Details

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Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is an integral part of the PortableApps.com Suite™.

Like Firefox Portable? You’ll love having Firefox on your PC:

Features

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that’s easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, thanks to the PortableApps.com launcher bundled in the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go. Learn more about Mozilla Firefox…

Support

For help getting Firefox Portable up and running, visit Firefox Portable Support:

• Installing Firefox Portable
• Using Firefox Portable
• Upgrading Firefox Portable
• Copying your local Firefox settings to Firefox Portable
• Improving Firefox Portable’s Performance
• Installing Plugins (Flash, Shockwave, etc.)
• Running From a CD (Firefox Portable Live)
• Configuring Helper Apps (PDF reader, document viewers, etc)
  Note: Using helper apps and closing them after closing Firefox Portable may have privacy implications, read for more details.
• Known Issues
• Modifications
• Version History

There’s also a list of Frequently Asked Questions and a Support Forum.

Download Details

• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and Mozilla
• Date updated: 2009-03-28
• System Requirements: 2000/XP/Vista, Wine on Linux/UNIX*
  * when running under Wine, the system default font will be used
  ** users of Windows 95/98/Me can still download Firefox 2.0
• License: Free / Open Source (Launcher: GPL, Firefox: MPL/GPL/LPGL under Mozilla EULA)
• Source Code: Launcher source (included), Firefox source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 1208ee5238969ececd74136a40ab3cdf
• Downloads: 8,794,000

Legacy Versions

Older versions of Firefox Portable are available for use in testing website compatibility and other situations. You can download Firefox Portable 2.0.0.20, Firefox Portable 1.5.0.10 or Firefox Portable 1.0.8. Other versions are also available.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Gerard Balagué (mai9) for the original code handling extension path rewriting in his FreeTheFox launcher and tracon for some of the original ideas with his fflaunch launcher. Thanks as well to FlashBanG and all the folks participating in the mozillaZine forum thread for their ideas, suggestions and support.

Mozilla®, Firefox® and the Firefox logo are registered trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation and are used under license.