![]() ![]() Firefox used to be a unique browser, but now it’s as bad as Opera – not even as good as Internet Explorer in performance. But these days, Safari (15.97%) and Firefox (4.33%) account for at most 20% of the entire web browser market, all the rest belongs to Chrome. In 2013, Firefox accounted for 78% of the world’s web browser market. It has a 42-week upgrade cycle, compared with about 6 weeks for other editions. Thereinto, the ESR ( Extended Support Release) edition is specially built for organizations, companies that are unable or unwilling to upgrade frequently. Firefox has been released as multiple editions in order to meet the needs of different users. It uses the Gecko layout engine, supports multiple operating systems, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS. If you want to remove all private data or activity from the past few hours, Clear Recent History, another Firefox-only feature, gives you full control over what stays and what goes.Mozilla Firefox (originally called Phoenix, then Firebird) is a free and open-source web browser developed in 2002. Unique to Firefox 3.5, the new Forget this Site feature can remove every trace of a site from your browser. ![]() While using the new Private Browsing mode in Firefox 3.5, nothing you encounter on the Web will be stored from that moment on during your browsing session. Firefox 3.5 includes features designed to protect your privacy online and provide greater control over your personal data. It showed certain files were in use.Īfter opening a few files in the "\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" subfolders, I found (after clearing private data in Firefox AND using CCleaner) a lot of references in files like COOKIES.SQLITE and PLACES.SQLITE of the website forums, and links to games I had downloaded. I was downloading portable classic PSX/N64 games, and opened the OpenFilesView app that comes with HiRen's boot CD v10. It says that Firefox doesn't keep logs of websites you visit. There are some memory management add-ons too. next open them up manually using FF, and from then on, FF will know where they are automatically and you'll have them to use. But then, that wouldn't exactly be portable, though, would put the add-ons into the same app folder after you download them manually (save as.). But you could experiment with re-routing data to a RAM drive. That makes it possible to use many more add-ons that still have worth and functionality (at your own risk, of Carney: Internet use and anonymity/privacy are nearly mutually exclusive in this modern age. Browse the web for instructions on how to do that. MHT files for webpage archiving.īy the way, add-ons can be manually edited to not expire, just set their internal xml version expiration date to something ridiculously high. No need for another PDF reader if you transition to. The MHT files can be written or read on Mac OS too. Internet Explorer comes able to read MHT files "out of the box", so support for MHT reading is ubiquitous as long as the otherwise annoying IE keeps being installed with the Windows OS. This is a good way cross-platform way to archive web pages. FF displays them just fine, and the HTML links remain working too. MHT files look just like web pages, but without some unneeded MetaData and all the info is squished into a single file-no subfolders needed. MHT files seem to be slightly more sophisticated and simpler to use than PDF files which are quite bloated with metaData. Update it with the UnMHT add-on and it becomes a nice. I don't use FF portable for online browsing. ![]() Remember, lots of different users of differing technical abilities use portable software, and most of them won't manually code a batch file to clean things up. Additionally, crash logs contain personal data, so while you may not care, I think most users would be uncomfortable with some of their personal data left behind on some random PC. Just because the handful of extensions you use don't break doesn't mean that lots of others do, particularly when a new version of Firefox is released and extension X isn't listed as compatible in its manifest but is actually compatible so lets your install of Firefox know. And Mozilla sends folks our way when they want a portable version of Firefox to distribute on USB drives. ![]() We negotiated a license to use the Firefox trademarks. If you request a portable version of Firefox, ours is as official as it gets. They don't document or support it as a 'portable' implementation as it is not designed to be used as such. Well, if that's not enough for you, Mozilla calls the -profile switch a way to point to a specific profile. ![]()
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