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[Antony]

The Mozilla Corporation has released the second Release Candidate for Firefox 2. Firefox 2 RC 2 is a preview release of Mozilla Corporation's next generation Firefox browser. It is made to public for users who want to get a aneak peek and to report bugs.



From Firefox 2.0 RC 2 Release Notes:
The release notes does not indicate any thing new fixed in 2.0 RC2 (over 2.0 RC1)
There is a lot in Firefox 2 RC 2 that we invite you to play around with and give us feedback on:
* Visual Refresh
* Built in Phishing Protection
* Enhanced search capabilities
* Improvements to tabbed browsing
* Resuming your browsing session
* Previewing and subscribing to Web feeds
* Inline spell checking
* Live Titles
* Improved Add-ons manager
* JavaScript 1.7
* Extended search plugin format
* Updates to the extension system
* Client-side session and persistent storage
* SVG text
* New Windows installer

Firefox 2 RC 2 ( Mac OS X )
Firefox 2 RC 2 ( Windows)
Firefox 2 RC 2 ( Linux)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061003 Firefox/2.0

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[geffr]

Once again, Portable apps has their version out at
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test
Your choice of .exe install or a zip file.
As I mentioned in the RC1 thread, the advantage to this version is it completely leaves your current FF profile alone so you can switch back & forth with no consequences. The concept is actually designed so you can bring all your setting to any pc on a cdr or usb key, but it's also been great for testing.

Geff

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061003 Firefox/2.0

[Antony]

Exactly, what is the "Portable" thing?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

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[Don_HH2K]

Portable Firefox is just a smaller Firefox distribution that's better suited for flash media. If I'm not mistaken, the only differences are that the chrome is actually in compressed JAR files, and that PF's profile data is stored in the same directory as Firefox itself, rather than in your Application Data folder, which means that your Firefox profile also gets transported along with Firefox.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2 x64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060917 Firefox/1.5.0.7 (mmoy CE K8M-X19)

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[geffr]

Again, to me the benefit on a beta or RC is that the portable version is completely self contained & doesn't impact my FF 1.5.0.7 install in any way. The portable maintains it's own profile in it's main folder & doesn't touch any installed Mozilla folder. No need for complicated profile management when trying a beta, just pop the puppy in it's own folder (mine's on my desktop), import bookmarks & cookies; dl any themes & extensions & it's ready to go. No need to worry about doing something wrong & having to restore my FF profile. If it's buggy, I can just shut it off & start up 1.5. The link in my previous post has a more involved explanation.

And yes, it's original purpose is so a user can take their personal setting with them to a work, friend's or other pc on a USB key or burned on a cdr without leaving a trace. They also offer a portable of FF 1.5 if anyone needs it. P.A. has a few other programs in addition to FF, I haven't tried any of them.

One other thing I forgot to mention above, this is from my similar post in the RC 1 thread,

BTW, for those like me using the portable app version, they've disabled the browser cache to extend USB key life. To enable the cache, go into about:config & change cache size from 0 to 50000.
Geff

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

[casey1992]

RC 3 came out today.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0