portable-web-browsersPortable apps are softwares which don’t require any installation and can be used directly from the USB flash drive. It comes handy when you are not using your own computer and want to have your passwords and all other private information in the browser, which you don’t want to share with your friend. Here are 6 portable web browsers for users of Windows PCs. If you surf the Intetnet out of home usually, I think these portable browsers are worthy to be used.

Internet Explorer

I have to say that these browsers are not portable in its real meaning. However, they do provide us good ways to use a beefed-up version of IE with your personalizations wherever you can plug in your USB drive.

1. Maxthon Portable

As a browser most widely used in China, Maxthon browser is a powerful tabbed browser built for all users. Besides basic browsing functionality, Maxthon browser provides a rich set of features to improve your surfing experience. Maxthon won Webware 100 award in 2008 and the download of Maxthon from main site reached 170 million times.

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2. Avant Browser

100% Free! No cost, No limitations. No Adware. No Spyware, this is Avant browser’s slogans. Avant Browser’s user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have steadily improved its reliability. Avant Browser is freeware That’s right.

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Opera

3. Opera@USB

As we all know, Opera is one of the best web browsers in the world. The Opera 10 portable browser also has the same features of the main browser but the only difference, is that its not the installer version, and can be used anywhere from the flash drive.

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Mozilla

4. Portable Firefox

Perhaps most people have had a good konwledge of this browser already. John T. Haller’s Portable Apps project is always right on top of the latest Firefox updates, so it’s the place to go if you need the Fox in your pocket. The most recent unstable branch is provided as well, in case you want to test it without installing.

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5. PocketKMeleon

K-Meleon is a very fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the win32 (Windows) system based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla).

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Webkit

6. Google Chrome Portable

Carsten Knoblauch’s project allows users to surf the Internet with Chrome (currently v. 3.0.195.20) everywhere for providing protable Chrome on your flash drive. He updates frequently and the page’s download link should always hook you up with the latest version.

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That’s all. If don’t see your choice on the list, share it with us in the comments please!

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