Yes, Google pays hefty royalties to Mozilla/Firefox for making them the default search engine in Firefox. Does Firefox use Google as a search engine? By default, Firefox blocks known third party trackers, social media trackers, cryptomining scripts and fingerprinters from collecting your data. Is Firefox a trustworthy browser?įirefox is considered a secure and private browser. We think the browser should be a piece of software you can rely on to have your back, pleasant to look at and working seamlessly with the web. We've always had your back on privacy, and still do. It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more.įirefox's has been reimagined in 2023 to be fast, modern and inviting the first time you run it and every day after. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.

If you already have installed plugin IcedTea for your non-portable Mozilla Firefox the script will recognize it, adding it to the portable instance.Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. if you haev chosen the ESR release you get the new directory /tmp/firefox-esr-portable.

if you have chosen the standard release you get the new directory /tmp/firefox-portable.

The script will download the software and will generate a new directory containing your portable instance:

bash build-firefox-portable.sh esr (to get Mozilla Firefox ESR).

bash build-firefox-portable.sh (to get Mozilla Firefox standard).

go into the chosen directory (see second step).

unzip the file where you want (i suggest /tmp).

Mozilla Firefox standard (lastest release).

Supported Firefox versions, at the moment, are: Installing an instance of Mozilla Firefox portable on Linux is pretty simple but this action could reserve you some trouble if you have to do it manually every time.īecause of this i created a very simple script which does the dirty job and can create a portable installation of this the browser.

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