Firefox 3.6 portable is a useful web browsing application as it runs completely and portably from your flash drive, saving its usage data and settings along side itself on your flash drive. Perfect for the traveller or internet cafe user, as this allows you to take your own browsing experience, along with you bookmarks and settings anywhere. Firefox Portable is basically the fully featured Firefox 3.6 web browser that has been slightly modified to run itself from a flash drive or any other portable media, and save it’s user data alongside itself, therefore leaving no trace of your activities on the host computer.

Portable applications are a wonderful solution for those who need the freedom of portability without the hassle of lugging around a laptop. Along with Firefox there is a superb collection of portable applications available online, like for instance a portable version Skype and a portable Open Office suite.

Portable Firefox is made available by PortableApps.com, who have taken the initiative to create an entire application suite of portable programs along with a fully featured portable start menu which allows for easy portable application management. Other portable resources include; the Wikipedia list of already portable applications.

Note: Portableapps.com software is available for Windows only, however many Linux and Mac software have portable capabilities.

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