consolejockey

I was wondering how long it would take before a portable version of Firefox 3 would show up on PortableApps. The answer is about 24 hours. If you’ve never heard of PortableApps, you should check out their site. They host a multitude of useful standalone applications that can be run off a USB drive or the like. It’s a handy way for web coders like me to have both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 installed on the same machine and not have them interfere with one another.

L337 h4×0rz have produced stand alone versions of Internet Explorer, also for web coders to test their sites on, but Microsoft doesn’t support them, instead recommending coders test their sites using Virtual PC disk images with different browsers installed on them. The disk images have an expiration date, so you have to re-download them every few months. Not exactly the most efficient solution.