Test Firefox 4 with Firefox Portable Edition 4.0 Beta 2

Firefox Portable Edition 4.0 Beta 2 (Windows, Open Source) are test versions of the Firefox 4 web browser. The portable edition lets you try the version 4 beta safely, without changing anything on your installed version 3 of Firefox.


What’s new in Firefox 4:

• Tabs are now on top by default on Windows only - OSX and Linux will be changing when the theme has been modified to support the change.
• On Windows Vista and Windows 7 the menu bar has been replaced with the Firefox button.
• You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar
• New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release)
• Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions.
• The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac and Linux.
• The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you'd like).
• Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.
• CSS Transitions are partially supported.
• Full WebGL support is included but disabled by default at this time.
• Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently.
• Native support for the HD HTML5 WebM video format.
• An experimental Direct2D rendering backend is available on Windows, turned off by default.
• Web developers can use Websockets for a low complexity, low latency, bidirectional communications API.
• Web developers can update the URL field without reloading the page using HTML History APIs.
• More responsive page rendering using lazy frame construction.
• Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload.
• CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user's browsing history.
• New HTML5 parser.
• Support for more HTML5 form controls.

I just love portable editions of apps, whether beta or final versions.
Firefox Portable Edition 4.0 Beta 2

Firefox Portable Edition updated to 3.6

Firefox Portable Edition 3.6 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser in portable app form, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

Changes:

• Support for a new type of theme called Personas, which allow users to change Firefox's appearance with a single click.
• Protection from out-of-date plugins to keep users safer as they browse.
• Open, native video can now be displayed full screen and supports poster frames.
• Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time.
• The ability for web developers to indicate that scripts should run asynchronously to speed up page load times.
• Continued support for downloadable web fonts using the new WOFF font format.
• Support for new CSS attributes such as gradients, background sizing, and pointer events.
• Support for new DOM and HTML5 specifications including the Drag & Drop API and the File API, which allow for more interactive web pages.
• Changes to how third-party software can integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.

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Toucan 2.2.1 – Open Source Tool to Sync, Backup, and Secure Your Files

Toucan 2.2.1 (Windows, Open Source, 2MB) is a tool for advanced users that allows you to sync, backup and secure files on your portable device.

Changes:

• bug fix release for Toucan
• updates a number of in built translations
• and a Catalan translation is included for the first time
• Please note that there was a bug in the Backup password protection option in version 2.2.0 and your files may not be encrypted, please reencrypt them with version 2.2.1 to fix the issue.

I’ve been playing around with this app, and it’s a very nice portable solution for making backups of your data.

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Pidgin Portable 2.6.4 – Open Source Multi-Network IM Client

Pidgin Portable 2.6.4 (Windows, Open Source, 14MB) is a versatile instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's nothing to install on the local PC.

Changes:

• updates Pidgin to 2.6.4 (change log)
• has an improved installer which preserves plugins like the Pidgin Facebook and Skype plugins.

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Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5.5

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5.5 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is the latest Mozilla Firefox browser released as a portable app, so you can take your browser, bookmarks, settings and extensions on the go.

Change: Firefox main component has been updated to 3.5.5.

This is a great app that lets you use Firefox on a Windows computer without having to actually install it. Run it on your thumbdrive, or on the local drive.

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Pidgin Portable 2.6.3 – Open Source Multi-Network IM Messenger Client

Pidgin Portable 2.6.3 (Windows, Open Source, 14MB) is a versatile instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's nothing to install on the local PC.

Changes:

• Fix a crash when performing DNS queries on Unixes that use the blocking DNS lookups.
• Fix a crash when some clients send contacts in a format we don't understand.
• Fix blocking and other privacy lists.

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Google Chrome Portable 3.0.195.27

Google Chrome Portable 3.0.195.27 (Windows, Partial Open Source, 672KB) is the portable package of the minimalist design web browser from Google.

Now, you can have Google Chrome in your USB drive, so you can take it anywhere you go. ;)

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Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5.3

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5.3 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser in portable app format, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

Changes:

• Updates Firerox to v3.5.3
• expanded the languages available to include Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Russian and Spanish (Spain and International).

Great for your thumbdrive!

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Namoroka Portable Edition 3.6 Alpha 1 – Preview of Firefox 3.6

Namoroka Portable Edition 3.6 Alpha 1 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is an early developer milestone of the popular Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as portable app that is being built on top of Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 layout engine.

This is a preview release of Mozilla Firefox 3.6, in portable form. If you want to see what version 3.6 has to offer, use this.

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Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5.2

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5.2 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser in portable app format, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

Change: updated to 3.5.2.

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VLC Media Player Portable 1.01

VLC Media Player Portable 1.01 (Windows, Open Source, 20MB) is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go.

Changes:

• updates VLC Media Player to 1.0.1
• adds Windows 7 support
• and has an improved installer.

I usually tend to favor portable versions against the original app. That way, my Windows registry is not more *screwed up* as it is. ;)

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Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 Portable

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 Portable (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) 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.

Changes: Same with non-portable Firefox.

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Pidgin Portable 2.5.8

Pidgin Portable 2.5.8 (Windows, Open Source, 14MB) is the versatile Pidgin instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's nothing to install on the local PC.

Changes:

• ICQ
  • Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy)

• MSN
  • Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!

• MySpace
  • Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.
  • Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace IM's web client.

• Yahoo
  • Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when signing out.
  • Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in 2.5.7.
  • Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.
  • Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.
  • The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease the pain of transition to the new login method.

• XMPP
  • Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients.

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Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Portable Edition

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Portable Edition (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser in portable app format, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

Changes:

• Firefox has been updated to 3.5.
• has an improved installer and launcher.
• has several enhancements which improve performance on portable devices.

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Miranda IM Portable 0.8.1 – Minimalist Multi-Protocol IM Client

Miranda IM Portable 0.8.1 (Windows, Open Source, 3MB) is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows, in portable format, which uses very little memory and supports ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, IRC and more.

Changes:

• Improve account renaming inside of the account manager
• Notification if missing messaging plugin
• Improved upgrade procedure when using older contact list and messaging plugins
• Network list in options wasn’t sorted
• Fixed missing icon/menu issues
• Fixed crash in options on XP pre SP2
• Fixed errors loading dlls on wrong OS
• Fixed drawing background in options search
• Fixed account removal handling
• Fixed hotkey issue with some MS keyboards
• Fixed possible crash with event data
• AIM: Fixed issue with multiple connection requests
• AIM: Fixed issue setting AIM profile
• ICQ: Fixed AIM away message handling (caused online status to be seen as away in some clients)
• IRC: Possible crash on specific alias
• MSN: Fixed renaming nickname from options
• MSN: Fixed Offline messaging reception from Beejive client
• Yahoo: Show download progress properly
• Yahoo: Cancel out in the middle of file receive.
• Yahoo: Main menu fixes

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Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5 Release Candidate 2

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5 Release Candidate 2 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) allows you to test all the latest features in the upcoming version without disrupting your current Firefox installation.

Changes:

• updates Firefox to 3.5 RC 2
• now available in more than 70 languages
• Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
• Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
• The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
• Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
• Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

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Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5 Release Candidate 1

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5 RC 1 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) allows you to test all the latest features in the upcoming version without disrupting your current Firefox installation.

Changes:

• updates Firefox to 3.5 RC 1
• has an improved installer and launcher with fixes for a registry issue on Vista.
• has improved Windows 7 support.
• As with other tests, it will install alongside your current Firefox Portable installation in a FirefoxPortableTest directory by default.

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Miranda IM Portable 0.7.19 Revision 2 – Multi Protocol IM Client

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.19 Revision 2 (Windows, Open Source, 2MB) is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go.

Changes:

• updates Miranda IM to 0.7.19
• has an improved installer
• and adds Windows 7 support.

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Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.1 Beta 3

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.1 Beta 3 (Windows, Open Source, 8.5MB) you to test all the latest features in the upcoming version without disrupting your current Firefox installation.

Changes:

• Improved the new Private Browsing Mode.
• Improvements to web worker thread support.
• Improved performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
• New native JSON support.
• Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.

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Miranda IM Portable 0.7.17 – Open Source Minimalist Style Multi-Protocol IM Client

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.17 (Windows, Open Source, 2.1MB) is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go.

Changes: Windows compatibility improvements.

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