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| Thread ID: 54678 | 2005-02-19 02:08:00 | Portable "Firefox" feedback... | J ZEP (336) | PC World Chat |
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| 326355 | 2005-02-21 00:39:00 | Thanks for the feedback, i got sidetracked when i was about to install it, so didn't get it done till last night ;). It went smooth as, only took a couple of minutes, very easy installation and no probs so far, i am quite rapt with it :thumbs:. I download and just install the plain firefox on my usb drive.Works perfectly! Thats interesting... I had considered doing that myself, however presumed it would be a recipe for disaster :D, mainly thought probs would occur cause of where/how the profiles etc... are stored in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla. But i guess if you could change the location... However i do notice that there are a lot of things in the default version of "Portable Firefox" that are an changed to save the life of the usb drive, which is excellent i.e Quoted: "Obviously, you can change many of these settings (ex cache, form saving or cookies disabled) by changing the options in Firefox, but you will increase the number of writes to your flash drive, thus decreasing its life." Cheers |
J ZEP (336) | ||
| 326356 | 2005-02-21 04:43:00 | Reckon I could fit it on a floppy or two? I was just thinking about doing something like this to get past the annoying anti download filters at school. | Zygar (29) | ||
| 326357 | 2005-02-21 08:07:00 | Reckon I could fit it on a floppy or two?The portable Firefox is 8.60 MB installed. You might have trouble fitting it on a floppy or two, let alone get it to run. :) | Jen (38) | ||
| 326358 | 2005-02-21 08:23:00 | Yes, I noticed that after searching google a short while ago. I was going to edit my post but somebody had the bright idea of turning off editing after 15 minutes, and I couldn't be stuffed doubleposting. Suppose I'll just have to get a USB key or two. | Zygar (29) | ||
| 326359 | 2005-03-02 00:23:00 | I need help- I downloaded Portable FF to my thumbdrive- but can't get it to work. What are the magic settings? Do I need to do this from my main PC which has all my FF settings, profile, etc and copy THEM to the thumbdrive as well? what and how do I copy the profile & settings from my main PC to the thumbdrive? Since on my thumbdrive, then per one of the posts I leave the Portablefirefox.ini file alone ? By the way- could not get Portable Thunderbird to work either. |
sethm (7370) | ||
| 326360 | 2005-03-02 02:23:00 | You need to run the portablefirefox.exe or portablethunderbird.exe files instead - it takes a while to open on a slow PC. | wintertide (1306) | ||
| 326361 | 2005-03-02 02:56:00 | Just wondering if there was any difference in browsing speed, application load up time etc compared with a properly installed firefox edition on the hard drive? And at 8mbs, that is sweet.... leaves me 120mb left on my usb drive! Will give it a try if it proves to be running quickly. |
mister harbies (5607) | ||
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