Portable Firefox for Mac

Publisher's Description

From FreeSoftware Mac User Group:

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.

  1. 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.
  2. Clicking "Portable Firefox" will open Firefox from your portable device, wait a while before Firefox 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/username/Library/Applications Support/Firefox/Profiles/********.default/" or any other profile you have on your local disk.

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

What's new in this version:

  • Firefox updated to 3.5
  • English, French, German, Italian, Chinese and Japanese languages available.
  • Released under GPLv3
  • Firefox icon updated

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