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Tor Browser enables secure, anonymous web access to help bypass various forms of censorship, region-blocking, and tracking. The program uses a modified version of the Firefox ESR browser with additional privacy and security features, including always-on access to an anonymous network and no usage history.
Components include the Vidalia Tor client and the NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere add-ons to enhance privacy. The program is the official browser bundle from the makers of Tor.
Functional in 64-bit. Cross-platform with clients available for Mac and Linux.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
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Similar/alternative apps: | Advanced Onion Router |
What's new? | See: https://blog.torproject.org/category/releases/ |
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smaragdus
on 2015-09-05 03:36
I needed to connect to an onion site and downloaded the latest version (5.0.2) but Australis makes Tor Browser absolutely terrible and unusable- I do not want to install heaps of add-ons just to restore features the Mozilla idiots removed. I had an earlier version of Tor Browser (3.6.0- before the advent of the abominable Australis) but the perpetual blinking of the Tor button urging for update is unbearable and cannot be disabled. It can be removed from the tool-bar but this way one cannot acquire new identities.
rbon
on 2018-09-22 16:46
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Starting from version 8.0 Tor project builds both version of TorBrowser: 32 bit and 64 bit. |
Google Chrome is a web browser designed for simplicity and speed. Its minimalistic appearance and capabilities can be extended with themes and extensions. The program integrates with Google's tools and services and that can sync across other signed-in devices.
Cross-platform with clients available for Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
Google Chrome Portable is the PortableApps version of the program. It includes automatic support for jPortable to enable web-based Java apps. For users interested in the cutting edge, Beta and Development are also available. For Windows versions from XP to 8, see past versions.
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Runs on: | Win10 / Win11 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. Uses Windows' certificate manager, some Settings/Extensions Locked Per PC (see "App Notes" on website). |
Unicode support: | Partial |
Path portability: | Automatic compensation for dynamic drive letter in removable storage devices |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Download the portable installer and install to a folder of your choice. Launch GoogleChromePortable.exe. NOTE:
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Similar/alternative apps: | X-Chromium, Slimjet |
What's new? | See: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/search/label/Stable updates |
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Ennovy
on 2016-04-08 13:42
@JohnTHaller: Thank you for the new release. Regarding the registry entries that are left behind I will post in the forum.
Stephen Leibowitz
on 2023-07-31 09:28
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“Over the years [Chrome] has gained a reputation for being something of a resource hog, gobbling up your PC’s memory like it’s going out of style.” Starting with version 108, the Chrome desktop browser has a feature called Memory Saver that deactivates tabs that aren’t currently being used. When a user accesses a deactivated tab, it automatically reloads. A user can turn Memory Saver on or off. A user can also exclude specific sites from Memory Saver, keeping tabs for those sites active. See: |
Firefox Browser is a fast, powerful and secure web browser that supports open standards and many of the latest web technologies. The program includes smart search, bookmark management, web development tools and built-in download manager. Smart content blocking for ads and trackers is available in both standard and private browsing modes.
Versions available for Mac, Android, iOS and Linux with synchronisation of passwords and browser state across devices. Additional features and customisations are available via the add-on system, which allows for thousands of specialized functions.
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is a special build licensed by Mozilla and includes both the 32-bit and 64-bit builds and selects the appropriate one for each PC. Beta, Developer, Extended Release, and Win 7/8/8.1 and XP/Vista versions are also available.
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Runs on: | Win10 / Win11 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Launcher: GPL, Program: MPL v. 2.0 |
How to extract: | Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FirefoxPortable.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Pale Moon Portable, SeaMonkey Portable |
What's new? | See: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releasenotes/ |
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Emka
on 2019-07-16 07:43
Hm, now I can't reproduce it... I'll post in the forums if I encounter it again. I already did so for Thunderbird Portable.
PAFuser
on 2020-06-11 12:24
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64 bit system: save 181 MB by deleting firefox folder, and renaming firefox64 to firefox. Beta, standard, and ESR work fine. |
BrowserDownloadsView displays information on both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers downloads. Displayed elements include filename, download/web page URL, start and end time, duration, size, specific browser and more. You can also calculate the MD5/SHA1/SHA256/SHA512 hash of the downloaded files.
The program will show a list of downloads from your user profile or all visible user profiles, as well as from from networked computers or an external hard drive. Details can be exported to to many formats including CSV, HTML, XML and JSON.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch BrowserDownloadsView.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | FirefoxDownloadsView |
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ImageCacheViewer scans the cache of your Web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Pale Moon, SeaMonkey, Google Chrome, Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi and Yandex) and lists the images displayed in the recently visited Web sites. For every cached image file, program displays the URL of the image, browser used, image type, image and browsing date/time and file size. Selecting an image from this list shows the image in the lowe rpane and you can copy the image to the clipboard (Ctrl+M) for pasting elsewhere.
The program is useful for getting around some image protection schemes, web development testing and tracking down a specific image when you're not sure of its associated website.
Note: The author recommends closing all windows of your Web browser before using to ensure that all files are saved to the disk. Additionally, the program won't work if the browser is configured to clear its cache on closing (for privacy or space reasons).
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ImageCacheViewer.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | FBCacheView |
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tomcat
on 2021-05-12 08:07
It doesn't seem to work in my case. It only shows some images from Internet Explorer that I don't even use, and nothing from Opera and Edge that I do use.
__philippe
on 2023-03-15 09:39
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ImageCacheViewer v1.30 (webp image support) |
Vivaldi is a customizable, tabbed web browser based on the same engine as Google Chrome. Its appearance and capabilities can be extended with themes and extensions. It features a bookmark manager, speed dial, notes, custom search engines, sessions, tab stacks, web panels, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, user interface scaling, adaptive interface color and much more.
Cross-platform with clients available for Mac and Linux.
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Runs on: | Win10 / Win11 |
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In the User Data folder, which is created in the same root as "Application" folder. Note that the program resets some settings, including the list of installed extensions, when you move between PCs. |
Stealth: ? | No. HKCU\Software\Vivaldi |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
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Similar/alternative apps: | Otter Browser, Opera, Google Chrome, Slimjet, SRWare Iron |
What's new? |
See: https://vivaldi.com/nl/changelog-vivaldi-browser-6-6/ Blog: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-6/ |
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Midas
on 2020-06-15 15:49
@zorro: do you mean 'update_notifier.exe'? I haven't erased it but never found it in memory in my brief testing of Vivaldi... and I couldn't make the previous instructions work in a straightforward way, hence my last comment.
Midas
on 2020-06-16 07:51
Zorro is absolutely right, even Vivaldi Standalone version registers 'update_notifier.exe' to auto-start with Windows -- something that somehow slipped by me in the previous test.
zorro
on 2020-06-18 14:46
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...well, there's more - I launch Vivaldi with my own batch file: |
DataProtectionDecryptor allows you to decrypt passwords and other information encrypted by the DPAPI (Data Protection API) system of Windows operating system, such as passwords of Microsoft Outlook accounts, credentials files of Windows, wireless network keys, passwords in some versions of Internet Explorer, passwords and cookies of Chrome Web browser.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DataProtectionDecryptor.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | EncryptedRegView |
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SideSlide is a desktop extension that docks to any screen edge. It allows you to store your favorite RSS feeds, shortcuts to files/folders/URLs, notes, reminders etc. in "containers" that you can arrange, shrink and fold in the workspace. You can also drag-and-drop text/images from your web browser to the workspace to create web snippets.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | To display RSS feeds on the systems earlier then Windows XP SP3, you must have Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 installed. |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Path portability: | Automatic compensation for dynamic drive letter in removable storage devices |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SideSlide.exe. |
What's new? | See: https://northglide.com/sideslide_changelog.html |
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hamasaki
on 2021-12-21 06:21
The latest update has killed it. At least on Win 11. It just crashes on start.
pkl9kpl
on 2022-02-24 09:23
the same -it crashes on W7
normeus
on 2022-03-28 00:47
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New version fixes problem of crashing on startup when you have an odd text zoom; I had 110% and now it does not crash. |
BrowsingHistoryView reads the history data of popular Web browsers and then displays the browsing history in one table. The program includes visited URL, title, visit time, count, browser and user profile. It supports Internet Explorer, Firefox-based and Chromium-based Web browsers.
The program allows you see the browsing history of all user profiles in a running system, as well as backed-up profiles and is useful for usability testing, administrators and parents.
Data can be exported into a spreadsheet, html, or xml file from the user interface. Includes command-line options.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch BrowsingHistoryView.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | MZHistoryView, IEHistoryView, ChromeHistoryView |
What's new? |
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pacofdez
on 2019-01-20 08:26
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Is it possible to see the history of applications that use the IWebBrowser2 interface of IE/Edge? |
Chromium is a fast, open source browser with a minimalist interface. The program is similar to Google Chrome and uses the same code base, but takes up less space and resources usage, has fewer tie-ins with Google, and generally better privacy. Unlike Google Chrome, it is missing proprietary audio and video codecs and there's no automatic update system.
Chromium is cross-platform with clients available for Mac, Linux, and ChromiumOS. X-Chromium is a wrapper program. Earlier versions are available for Win XP to 8.1, and 32-bit Win 10.
Note: X-Chromium's update cycle has in the past been many months apart. Using out-of-date web browsers is not recommended because they may be missing important vulnerability patches.
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Runs on: | Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch X-Chromium.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Firefox, Google Chrome Portable |
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webfork
on 2020-03-19 12:19
@DzejPy: I just tested the link and it seems to work okay now. Hopefully it was fixed soon after your post.
freakazoid
on 2021-11-22 03:37
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@tomcat - Even v93 is out of date by three versions... I would recommend using chrlauncher instead. |