Portable Firefox hits 1.0 too
Thursday, November 18th, 2004Honestly, I never knew that it existed until today. But here it is – Portable Firefox 1.0.
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/
So, what makes this product “portable?”
By portable, the creator claims it is USB drive friendly. But how so?
By today’s standard, USB 1.1 data transfer rate is not fast. Firefox isn’t exactly a small piece of application if you want to run it off of USB1.1 drives. So the jar files (the zip files that contains all of the user interface configuration files) are compressed more. Less data transfer equals faster launch time. Very clever. (This also means this version of firefox won’t speed up the application on normal hard drive.)
Also, it was modified so history data, cache, cookie, etc are not stored on the drive.
Well, pooh. I thought this was going to be a version of Firefox for portable devices like cell phones. Opera still has a lead on this area – they even have a version of opera that runs on Simbian OS. I admit, Firefox still isn’t the best browser for everyone yet.