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The portable builds are fully portable, the profile directory is inside the browser folder. It does not touch appdata at all.
Requirements to use the browser on a given OS:
Vista: Service Pack 2 + KB971644 Platform Update
7 RTM/SP0 and later: Should just work.
Notable bugs:
SessionStore may be broken in some manner? I'd recommend setting r3dfox to Use custom settings for history, close and reopen browser, then if you wish, set the browser back to Remember history. This process looks to fix the issue.
The 32 bit build is built with --disable-sandbox. With the sandbox enabled under Vista, the browser fails to open multiple processes which breaks the browser. The 64 bit build is fine. Considering Mypal68 globally disables the sandbox, I don't think it's that bad. If this really is a big issue then please pr a fix.
Cairo/GDI backend ignores system cleartype settings and causes crashes on older versions of Windows and crashes without e10s.
r3dfox specific changes on top of the previous v139.0.4 build:
Fixed broken menu spacing in Bookmarks Menu (and likely some other menus as well)
r3dfox specific changes on top of the previous v139.0.4 build:
Actually fixed accent colors.
VC++ DLLs are now included again
Browser omni.ja files are now packaged using Brotli compression. ~5MB bigger download size, but ~56MB smaller than last release when extracted/installed
Fixed private mode color flickering when opening tabs with Eclipse Purple theme
Reverted sizing of r3dfox logo on new tab page to 128 ESR sizing
Added option in r3dfox settings to enable/disable tab groups
Haven't tested on XP (OCAPI) nor have I extensively stability tested.
Please let me know what bugs or issues you encounter with it.