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Curious about the first pre-release version of Firefox 3.7, but don’t want to actually install it on your computer and risk messing up your Firefox profile? The folks at PortableAppz have put together aportable package. What that means is you can run Firefox 3.7a1pre as an executable file without installing it first.

Instead of an installer, what you get when you download the portable version is an application that you click in order to extract the contents to any folder on your hard drive or a USB flash drive. Then all you have to do is open that folder and click the FirefoxPortable.exe file to launch the browser.

Keep in mind, this is pre-release software. It hasn’t even reached the Alpha stage yet, which means there may be some major bugs lurking beneath the hood, so don’t expect miracles. But that’s all the more reason for using a portable version.

Eventually Firefox 3.7 may introduce a tweaked theme with redesigned toolbars. For now, the biggest difference between Firefox 3.7 and Firefox 3.5.2 (the latest stable edition) and Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 (the latest Alpha version) is that Firefox 3.7a1pre features an even newer version of the Gecko rendering engine

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