ibe98765 Posted November 9, 2004 Posted November 9, 2004 Portable Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate 2 (USB Drive-Friendly)- with extensions support!30,000 downloads and counting...Firefox supports running from removable drives with minimal reconfiguration. To make life even easier, I've repackaged Firefox as a complete, removable drive-friendly browser. This grew out of a mozillaZine forum topic back in June of 2004. Any comments or questions can be directed there. If you don't get an answer there, you can also contact me. (Note: Portable Thunderbird is also available.)http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/ Quote
zlim Posted November 9, 2004 Posted November 9, 2004 Let's see if this one works. I played around with this months ago and couldn't get it to work. I thought it would be handy if I go to someone's house to do a repair. I feel safer running FF than IE.Progress report:1. I downloaded the zip program (6.15 Mb) to my desktop2. Cleared off one of my 64 meg thumb drives3. Dragged the zipped file to the USB drive and selected extract here4. It unzipped into 1 large directory called firefox with all the subdirectories and folders5. I explored firefox and found the file "PortableFirefox.exe" and clicked on it6. It worked. The browser launched. Quote
Peachy Posted November 10, 2004 Posted November 10, 2004 Sweet! Browsing from PortableFirefox running from my SanDisk Cruzer Titanium, Quote
Cluttermagnet Posted November 11, 2004 Posted November 11, 2004 Portable Firefox is pretty darned neat! I successfully set it up on my 128M PNY USB 2.0 flash drive. The only glitch so far- when I first tried to post to this thread, I got a BSOD. After rebooting, all appears to work OK. I have also downloaded and installed one extension so far, Adblock. Haven't verified if it got installed right yet. I will play with this thing a bit on some of my different machines and see how it holds up. BTW it was trivially easy to replace the bookmarks.htm that comes with the install with a current copy from my 'real' Firefox browser. So far, so good. I like the idea. Let's see how it holds up as I travel around with it and try it on various friends' machines. :thumbsup:P.S. No, I'm not doing anything with encryption yet. This flash drive has everything out in plain sight. Quote
Grasshopper Posted November 12, 2004 Posted November 12, 2004 SWEET!! I love it. I just tested it briefly before I started on my HUGE honeydoo list today. This'll come in handy!!Is there one for Thunderbird??? Quote
zlim Posted November 12, 2004 Posted November 12, 2004 Is there one for Thunderbird? Sure is. I have a question. Someone asked me if you can put it on a flash memory card and run it from a cardreader. Any brave souls with the time to waste to see if it works? Quote
teacher Posted November 12, 2004 Posted November 12, 2004 It works the same way so it should work. I use the disks all the time as backup devices. Quote
Grasshopper Posted November 12, 2004 Posted November 12, 2004 I'm using both Portable Firefox and Thunderbird right now at work. I LOVE IT!!!I can have all my junk here on the Cruzer. My only mistake was not going big enough on the Cruzer. I got a 256 MB and I could probably fit all my email on it with about 30-40 MB to spare. But come to think of it, that might really cause the Cruzer to run slow on that program. Hmmm... Quote
GolfProRM Posted November 12, 2004 Posted November 12, 2004 This will rock when I get my 1Gb Jumpdrive in the mail soon. I usually use Remote desktop to access my email, but just carrying it around with me sounds much better! Quote
zlim Posted November 12, 2004 Posted November 12, 2004 tbird, you need two drives if you're getting squeezed out: one for the browser and the other for the mail.GolfProRM, I'm extremely green with envy! A 1 gig jump drive. I wonder if I am really, really, really good will Santa put one of those in my stocking? :"> Quote
Grasshopper Posted November 12, 2004 Posted November 12, 2004 ...but just carrying it around with me sounds much better! It is...trust me! Two drives??? Yeah, lemme try to talk "the boss" into that one. :"> Quote
GolfProRM Posted November 12, 2004 Posted November 12, 2004 GolfProRM, I'm extremely green with envy! A 1 gig jump drive. I wonder if I am really, really, really good will Santa put one of those in my stocking? :">Dell had one on sale the other day for $60 with a $20 rebate, so I couldn't pass it up... It's not a "secure" one, but I can't see why I'd bother to even use the security software. I'm excited as well... now I can turn off my ftp server from the outside world and secure my network a bit more... Quote
zlim Posted November 12, 2004 Posted November 12, 2004 If I get the browser set up the way I want on a jumpdrive, I may use that on all my computers. It sure beats trying to figure out on which partion of which computer I added a bookmark that I want. :'( Quote
Grasshopper Posted November 23, 2004 Posted November 23, 2004 Does anyone use any other programs run off a flash drive?? I'm really enjoying using FF and Tbird on my Cruzer Mini. It works great!What about an IM program? I'm looking for usefulness. Quote
Neil P Posted November 23, 2004 Posted November 23, 2004 This is great, I ran it off of my friends thumb drive in the lab here (they don't have firefox...just Navigator 4.x YIKES!)Portablefirefox.exe (I think that's the name of it...) didn't work, but I was able to get it working just using firefox.exeOtherwise, it ran great!:w00tx100:Neil Quote
comphelper Posted November 23, 2004 Posted November 23, 2004 Works great! I am leaving IE behind for good. Firefox is the only way to go right now. These USB tokens are great for so many things. Quote
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