Firefox
The full-featured PortableApps.com Suite that runs from a USB pen drive on any Windows system is now at version 2.0 Beta 1. The newly upgraded platform comes with tons of features like theme switching; seven different theme colors available and the possibility to customize or load other themes in the PATheme format.
In PortableApp Suite 2.0, automatic starting of applications -- Autorun becomes a major feature. Apps can now automatically run when the menu loads.
Besides that, PortableApp Suite 2.0’s has a richer Right-Click Menu.
You can Refresh, Hide, Display items on the menu list or completely uninstall apps via the right-click menu.
PortableApp Suite 2.0’s entire menu will now properly display all of your Apps icon on Vista and Windows 7 system as it now support the 120dpi icon resolutions used in both systems.
Support for Wine too has been re-visited, PortableApp Platform 2.0 tries to avoid the ugly pink edges that appear when the menu loads.
Ready to pack-up your already vulnerable Firefox 3.5.1, KeePass etc, hold-on.
Other worth nothing improvements:
The Suite menu dropped-out early used bold fonts and now uses Font Switching: For Windows XP and earlier Windows systems, it uses the Tahoma font, whilst on Vista and Windows 7 it uses the Microsoft Licensed Segoe UI.
A new hot key has been adopted. WIN-ALT-SPACE hides and displays the PortableApps.com Platform.
The PortableApps.com suite, is open source and a free download.
So what killer apps make-up your PortableApp suite. Share it with us in the comments.
PortableApps.com Suite 2.0 beta 1
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Windows only: Time to move-on and upgrade your portable version of Mozilla Firefox browser from version 3.5 to Firefox 3.5.1 Portable. This quick upgrade that fixes the critical JavaScript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 is brought to you by the PortableApps team, naturally.
Portable Firefox by PortableApps is a carbon copy of the original Firefox. It’s a free download and will run off a USB drive on all Windows systems and on WineHq
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1, Portable Edition
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Mozilla’s Personas now has a Film Category that is lead by the exciting art from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Personas, the Firefox extension that adds on-the-fly custom artwork to your browser, has been downloaded more than 6 million times over the pasts three months says the Mozilla Blog and its community gallery has accepted 17,000 different art designs including pop-art brands from Greenpeace, BCBG, All American Rejects, No Doubt, and the White Sox.
To dress-up your Firefox browser with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince artwork, click here: Personas by Warner Bros. Pictures
Personas works wherever there is Firefox.
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Mozilla strongly recommends all Firefox 3.5 users to upgrade Firefox 3.5.1 to fix the critical JavaScript vulnerability that was nagging Firefox 3.5.
Other security fixes include;
-> Vulnerability can be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, requiring no more than normal browsing actions.
-> Vulnerabilities that would otherwise be High or Critical except they only work in uncommon non-default configurations or require the user to perform complicated and/or unlikely steps.
-> Minor security vulnerabilities such as Denial of Service attacks, minor data leaks, or spoofs. (Undetectable spoofs of SSL indicia would have “High” impact because those are generally used to steal sensitive data intended for other sites.)
Firefox 3.5.1 also fixes stability issues, and an issue that made Firefox 3.5 take a long time to load on some Windows systems.
To get Firefox 3.5.1, first download and install Firefox 3.5, then you can manually update by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.
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Ubiquity Firefox extension version 0.5 is a major upgrade of the Mozilla Lab’s experimental add-on that requires the recently released Firefox 3.5. Ubiquity 0.5 comes with many more languages and tries to make Ubiquity instructions more natural and human.
New features in Ubiquity 0.5
* The first internationalized Ubiquity, where even non-coders can help bring Ubiquity to their language
* A more natural, human, and robust way to give Ubiquity instructions.
* A new, game-inspired interactive tutorial.
* Experimental smart suggestions: type “pasta” and Ubiquity recommends Yelp. (This feature needs to be enabled on the Ubiquity settings settings page).
Announcing Ubiquity 0.5
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