Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5.5 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is the latest Mozilla Firefox browser released as a portable app, so you can take your browser, bookmarks, settings and extensions on the go. Change: Firefox main component has been updated to 3.5.5. This is a great app that lets you use Firefox on a Windows computer without having to actually install it. Run it on your thumbdrive, or on the local drive. IceRocket Tags: mozilla, firefox, portable, windows open source

Pidgin Portable 2.6.3 (Windows, Open Source, 14MB) is a versatile instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's nothing to install on the local PC. Changes: Fix a crash when performing DNS queries on Unixes that use the blocking DNS lookups. Fix a crash when some clients send contacts in a format we don't understand. Fix blocking and other privacy lists. IceRocket Tags: pidgin, portable, windows open source

Google Chrome Portable 3.0.195.27 (Windows, Partial Open Source, 672KB) is the portable package of the minimalist design web browser from Google. Now, you can have Google Chrome in your USB drive, so you can take it anywhere you go. ;) IceRocket Tags: google chrome, portable, windows open source

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5.3 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser in portable app format, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. Changes: Updates Firerox to v3.5.3 expanded the languages available to include Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Russian and Spanish (Spain and International). Great for your thumbdrive! IceRocket Tags: mozilla, firefox, portable, browser, windows open source

Namoroka Portable Edition 3.6 Alpha 1 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is an early developer milestone of the popular Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as portable app that is being built on top of Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 layout engine. This is a preview release of Mozilla Firefox 3.6, in portable form. If you want to see what version 3.6 has to offer, use this. IceRocket Tags: namoroka, mozilla, firefox, portable, windows open source

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5.2 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser in portable app format, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. Change: updated to 3.5.2. IceRocket Tags: mozilla, firefox, portable, windows open source

VLC Media Player Portable 1.01 (Windows, Open Source, 20MB) is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. Changes: updates VLC Media Player to 1.0.1 adds Windows 7 support and has an improved installer. I usually tend to favor portable versions against the original app. That way, my Windows registry is not more screwed up as it is. ;) IceRocket Tags: vlc media player, portable, windows open source

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 Portable (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. Changes: Same with non-portable Firefox. IceRocket Tags: mozilla, firefox, portable, windows open source

Pidgin Portable 2.5.8 (Windows, Open Source, 14MB) is the versatile Pidgin instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's nothing to install on the local PC. Changes: ICQ Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy) MSN Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo! MySpace Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected. Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace IM's web client. Yahoo Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when signing out. Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in 2.5.7. Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older. Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones. The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease the pain of transition to the new login method. XMPP Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients. IceRocket Tags: pidgin, im, portable, windows open source

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Portable Edition (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser in portable app format, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. Changes: Firefox has been updated to 3.5. has an improved installer and launcher. has several enhancements which improve performance on portable devices. IceRocket Tags: mozilla, firefox, portable, windows open source

Miranda IM Portable 0.8.1 (Windows, Open Source, 3MB) is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows, in portable format, which uses very little memory and supports ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, IRC and more. Changes: Improve account renaming inside of the account manager Notification if missing messaging plugin Improved upgrade procedure when using older contact list and messaging plugins Network list in options wasn’t sorted Fixed missing icon/menu issues Fixed crash in options on XP pre SP2 Fixed errors loading dlls on wrong OS Fixed drawing background in options search Fixed account removal handling Fixed hotkey issue with some MS keyboards Fixed possible crash with event data AIM: Fixed issue with multiple connection requests AIM: Fixed issue setting AIM profile ICQ: Fixed AIM away message handling (caused online status to be seen as away in some clients) IRC: Possible crash on specific alias MSN: Fixed renaming nickname from options MSN: Fixed Offline messaging reception from Beejive client Yahoo: Show download progress properly Yahoo: Cancel out in the middle of file receive. Yahoo: Main menu fixes IceRocket Tags: miranda, im, portable, messenger, windows open source

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5 Release Candidate 2 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) allows you to test all the latest features in the upcoming version without disrupting your current Firefox installation. Changes: updates Firefox to 3.5 RC 2 now available in more than 70 languages Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode. Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation. Support for native JSON, and web worker threads. Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering. Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms. IceRocket Tags: mozilla, firefox, portable, 3.5, rc2, windows open source

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5 RC 1 (Windows, Open Source, 9MB) allows you to test all the latest features in the upcoming version without disrupting your current Firefox installation. Changes: updates Firefox to 3.5 RC 1 has an improved installer and launcher with fixes for a registry issue on Vista. has improved Windows 7 support. As with other tests, it will install alongside your current Firefox Portable installation in a FirefoxPortableTest directory by default. IceRocket Tags: mozilla, firefox, portable, 3.5 rc1, windows open source

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.19 Revision 2 (Windows, Open Source, 2MB) is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go. Changes: updates Miranda IM to 0.7.19 has an improved installer and adds Windows 7 support. IceRocket Tags: miranda im portable, messenger, windows open source

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.1 Beta 3 (Windows, Open Source, 8.5MB) you to test all the latest features in the upcoming version without disrupting your current Firefox installation. Changes: Improved the new Private Browsing Mode. Improvements to web worker thread support. Improved performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. New native JSON support. Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering. Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications. IceRocket: mozilla firefox portable 3.1 beta 3, windows open source

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.17 (Windows, Open Source, 2.1MB) is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go. Changes: Windows compatibility improvements. IceRocket: miranda im portable, windows open source

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.15 (Windows, Open Source, 2.1MB) is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go. Changes: Windows compatibility improvements Registry key no longer written on launch of Miranda IM Improved keyboard support in import dialog Improved hotkey support in delete contact dialog Fixed issue with failed searches has an updated installer IceRocket: miranda im portable, windows open source

OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0.1 (Windows, Open Source, 85MB) is a complete office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go. Changes: updates OpenOffice.org to 3.0.1 features an improved installer has a better support for the linguistic components and works better on systems without local installed MSVCRT runtime. Packages in Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish were also added. IceRocket: openoffice.org portable office suite, windows open source

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.14 (Windows, Open Source, 2.1MB) is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go. Changes: updates Miranda IM to 0.7.14 has an updated launcher and installer IceRocket: miranda im portable, windows open source

Double Driver 2.1 (Windows, Freeware, 1.79MB) is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print all chosen drivers simply and reliably. This is a portable app (unzip and run), so it’s easy to use it for backing up a client’s hardware drivers without installing any software. IceRocket: double driver, backup driver, windows freeware