Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.6.11

Rated 50/50 by poisonu at Apr 4, 2008

It's a Very Good browser.... ..& on track to be a Great browser when it becomes final release....

Rated 40/50 by bigspud at Apr 4, 2008

almost the perfect browser. portable for easy back-up, usb use. very fast page rendering. 3700+ extensions to modify it. some webpages dont render properly, mostly due to ignorant webpage creators. i wish all appz were portable.

Rated 10/50 by L4zy1 at Apr 8, 2008

firefox is crap that takes multiple plugins just to start to become useful

Rated 50/50 by improvelence at Apr 11, 2008

Again, L4zy1 must troll around the boards to mask his stubbornness to admit that Opera sucks.

Rated 50/50 by Sven123456789 at Apr 26, 2008

You gave the same review L4zy1 to regular firefox. Now i know your not actually testing this software. You wouldn't know how to use a portable version of software if it was given to you for free. I use portable Firefox all the time. Its one of the best software products to come out in years. Keep up the good work.

Rated 50/50 by mytake4this at May 19, 2008

FF3 is very good, as is FF2 and Opera. The previous post which indicated that plugins are needed to make this software work, is kinda humorous. I assume he means that you need add-ons, which to that I would say, a few add-ons does help with the experience, though without them, it works just fine -- much better than ie7, in fact. Being able to choose those add-ons you wish to use, is a good thing. Perhaps some could be standard. As for comments on Opera, I find that one very good for the business I do on the Net, as it will not crash as easy as FF on a particular site I must use, and the address bar opening a new tab each time is also useful during work sessions. For browsing and most of the day, I would say the FF experience is somewhat better. There are some sites which FF works better and some where Opera works better, and I rarely need to use ie7, or use ie7 tab on FF2. I do like search with FF3. I noted no memory use improvements while using FF3 however. It is a good browser, and I will upgrade to FF3. Currently used FF3 only as portable app.

Rated 50/50 by cricri_pingouin at May 21, 2008

Very good, my browser of choice. It replaced IE and Maxthon on all my computer. And instead of having to bother backing up settings, I can now just copy my whole Firefox portable folder to have Firefox running the way I like, with add-ons and bookmarks.

Rated 50/50 by anomoly at Jun 5, 2008

LAME quotes "It still loads and renders slow" "less features out of the box" Mozilla (sorry this is just FF-damn!) is a better browser than Opera ever will hope to be. run it, copy over, & open it. RC or not, why does it never say this (??? v3.0rc2 ???) anywhere? Built-in updater never works. If an update is available then the builtin updater should damn well say so & not give me some lame aus error. 'Til a new internet is invented FF will stay the #1 browser for any OS on any pc anywhere.

Rated 50/50 by improvelence at Jun 5, 2008

Blaxima, you have a point...all these years, I just...I didn't realize what I was doing....I guess it's not Opera that I hate....it's....myself. :( No...wait, I still hate Opera. Good point nonetheless.

Rated 30/50 by Blaxima at Jun 5, 2008

@improvelence-what a f'n hypocrite you are, you do the exact same thing to Opera I wonder if people playing high and mighty talking about actually testing software do it themselves. FF3 STILL uses far too much memory, up to 5x that of Opera and this portable version has 2 processes running to add to that problem. The fact that it requires more memory yet has less features out of the box to rivals is unexceptable. Add to that the breaking of the plugins with most releases, not all are broken but the few that I use are and the great plugins are thanks to the community and not a credit to the browser. It still loads and renders slow http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/ @anomoly - Yes I see now how test results can't compare to your lame rebuttals

Rated 30/50 by TGB72 at Jun 13, 2008

Fast than v2. While 3.0 betas crashed very often this is a very stable build. Don't like to much the silly additions on bookmark's sidebar (recent bookmarked. recent tags, get...). Still using to much memory (60MB with one plain html page loaded), unacceptable. Curious, while the RC1 executable say "version 1.9" this build says "version 1.5.11" o_O

Rated 30/50 by Blaxima at Jun 17, 2008

This is my review of the regular version but I will add that the portable version has 2 processes running which makes this STILL memory hungry software use even more Its getting better but its far from the best as many who really don't know what they are talking about spout of with. It only loads and renders fast, it only uses less memory when compared to previous versions not when compared to other browsers. How something so barebones still uses the amount of memory it does and can load so slow is beyond me. Plugins are great but not needed to achieve the same thing in other browsers. For example, Paste and Go, Speed Dial or compact menu are standard or one line of code in a ini (which is done for you with custom buttons) in Opera just to name a few. Foxy Proxy is the only reason I have this browser still otherwise it has no place on my system. Don't beleive the hype and cheap tricks like setting records that don't exist EDIT @dpcdpc11. Thats funny you should say that because I use Opera USB to compare the 2 so....

Rated 50/50 by dpcdpc11 at Jun 18, 2008

just gives me a headache ready dumb review from all the freakin noobs who don't even know what they're talking about... these are the people that ruin the reputation of a good software... for example this guys says: "Installer not working integrity check error".. what the...!??!? integrity check my a** bro... either u got some virus over there that corrupts your installer or either you dld didn't go all the way... so stop say dumb s*** like that... and again the heavy memory usage of ram issue... so.. to be clear.. this is a PORTABLE version... all the cache is stored into RAM... duuhh... so it's normal to have a heavy ram load... so lets compare it to Opera 9.5 for example.. also portable version with 0 disk cache.. try opening 25 tabs in each browser... then close them and then open them back again... what's the point you say?? simple... at 25 tabs(with rich content.. not google.com type of page) firefox 'eats' about 180ram... Opera 'eats' over 200ram... and after you close all your tabs.. guess what? firefox empties the memory.. getting to something like 70-80ram... but opera keeps it at around 200... and if you open the same tabs again opera deosnt even know that the cache is already in the ram so what does it do? loads the content of the tabs again getting at over 250 ram... btw ff doesnt do that, it just loads the tabs again getting at 180ram... and u dont have to take my word for it... i'm not a FF fanboy or something... my main browser is K-Meleon... but when it comes to all... FF is the best solution out there... try the crap outta it and you'll see what i mean... also do the same with Opera 9.5 and IE7.. with IE pro installed of course... and don't get me that crap that Opera is faster... it is faster, at opening bad rendered pages... try the browse menu on deviantart.com for example... well that's enough headache for today. have a good day ya'll!!

Rated 10/50 by analphatester at Jun 18, 2008

Installer not working integrity check error

Rated 10/50 by TGB72 at Jun 18, 2008

Nice browser but the memory hog is intolerable, 60MB with no tabs loaded, they've had to many months to fix this and it's still there. A shame.

Rated 40/50 by rburly at Jun 18, 2008

I have to give the portable version 4 Stars. The download and installation went seamlessly. It's running "smooth as silk" after a few tweaks, for me. If you use a flash drive, I highly recommend this version.

Rated 30/50 by McAleck at Jun 18, 2008

only 3 tabs open and memory usage is already at 130+ megs!!! better memory usage, my ass!

Rated 50/50 by shtraue at Jul 21, 2008

Firefox 3 is the most memory efficient browser: http://dotnetperls.com/Content/Browser-Memory.aspx

Rated 30/50 by petiot at Jul 22, 2008

very good browser, having a portable version is priceless. Tones of useful add on obviously. People complaining about memory are certainly the same who don't raise an eyebrow when their windows installation sucks up 600 meg on boot up (no mentioning Vista with its 900meg+ memory usage at boot up) However, since version 3, Firefox crashes when viewing VRML models using the Cortona plug in (the most used VRML plug on the market). Bug has been mentioned by some since beta version and still nothing is done.

Rated 40/50 by Sven123456789 at Sep 1, 2008

I gave the regular version of firefox 3 a pretty negative review because of a ton a reasons raging from annoying address bar to many add ons not working. This portable version which i used for awhile, i dont use as many add ons and the negatives aren't as high for one good reason. I noticed a big speed difference for the better from this version vs. portable firefox 2.0.0.16. So thats why i give this a 4. For some reason, i saw no speed increase in regular firefox 3 vs. regular 2.0.0.16