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DESCRIPTION
Portable Firefox is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 57 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your bookmarks, extensions, history, cookies, and saved passwords with you.

  • Drag the "Portable Firefox OS X" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 57 MB of free space.
  • Clicking "Portable Firefox" will open Thunderbird from your portable device, wait a while before Thunderbird start.

Using your data: You can copy your local Profile folder to Portable Firefox when "Copy local Profile" window ask you. So, if you wish to use your bookmarks, add-ons, history, personal data and preferences you already have on your system, just click "Copy" when prompt, and select the folder "/Users//Library/Applications Support/Firefox/Profiles/********.default/".

Other languages: Download Firefox in your language from http://www.mozilla.org and copy it to: "Portable Firefox.app/Contents/Resources/" folder.

Support Forum: Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our Portable Apps OS X support forum

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.5r4.0:
  • Firefox updated to 3.5
  • Released under GPLv3
  • Firefox icon updated
  • English, French, German, Italian, Chinese and Japanese languages available.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Developer:Carlo Gandolfi
Downloads:23,256
  - Version d/l:2,707
Internet:Browsers
License:Free
Date:30 Jun 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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Portable Firefox User Reviews (3 posts)Write A Review
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Feb 2 2006

SJJ_PUBLIC  This is based on the similar Hybrid portable firefox that supports both Mac and Windows. There is good reason to make the Mac part better, but why remove the Windows support? It is very useful to be able to use Firefox on someone elses Windows PC if that is all that's available to you. Just not sure I understand why this is a separate, Mac Firefox-only version. Perhaps the author should just contribute their Mac-specific improvements to the original?  
(Version 1.5.0.1r3.0)

praisebury
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Jan 30 2006

JPS  To the developer: I've been trying to fix a strange behavior in Firefox on my Mac since I downloaded your app. Here's the link to the discussion on the Firefox forum:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=374494&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=0&sid=a2c2b33127b61636664e91c3e53e7cb5

If you can't open the link, you can email me at jps200@gmail.com

It's possible there may be a bug in your program.

Thanks,

jp  
(Version 1.5r2.0)

praisebury
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Jun 26 2008

RONIN_1  I installed Portable Firefox 3 rc4 on a USB hard drive that had been formatted on a Mac (OS 10.5.3) which had previously run Portable Firefox 2.x. When I went to launch it there was a white circle/slash over the Firefox icon and when double clicked it says something to the effect that it does not support this architecture (the Mac is a G4). Bummer, it does not work.  
(Version 3.0r4.0)

praisebury
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