Firefox 3 beta goes portable
Mozilla released Firefox Portable Edition packed with Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1. This package allows you to test all the latest features in the upcoming version without disrupting your current Firefox installation. 
Firefox Portable is self-contained, so it will not write any data
to your hard drive or registry. That means you can test out Firefox 3's
new features like Places, and improved location bar without messing up
your current settings. You don't have to install Firefox 3 Portable to
a flash drive, you can just as easily install it to a folder on your
hard drive.
If you want to run Firefox 3 beta while you have a Firefox 2 window open, do the following steps:
If you want to run Firefox 3 beta while you have a Firefox 2 window open, do the following steps:
- Find the
FirefoxPortable.ini file in \Other\Sources\ and copy it to the
directory that has FirefoxPortable.exe.
- Edit FirefoxPortable.ini with
Notepad, Wordpad, or whatever text editor you prefer, and change
AllowMultipleInstances=false so that it says true.
- Save the file and
you can now run Firefox 2 and 3 at the same time.
Thanks to The Portable Apps developers, from now on new versions of Firefox can be run from a
flash drive within a few days of every major Firefox release.
You can download the portable version, Portable Edition 3 Beta 1 from here.
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