Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird are two apps that I can done with finding earlier. The university computers don’t have Firefox or Thunderbird installed (although the Linux clusters do have Mozilla 1.7.3) and so I’ve had Fx and TB installed to my user space. Alas, upgrading to the latest versions has caused them to go a bit odd, so having proper portable versions is very welcome. I gave Portable Firefox a spin today and it seems to work as advertised and I’ll get Portable Thunderbird installed at the next opportunity.
I don’t yet own a USB keychain but if I do get one I’ll be installing them to one. This is what I like about open source – it allows innovative uses of the product like this which proprietary software couldn’t do. Take Knoppix for example – you can’t (easily) do that with Windows, can you?
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October 12, 2004 at 04:58
Portable Firefox and Thunderbird
Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird are packages made specifically for running from a removable storage device. The packages even have extension support. I haven’t actually tried these packages, but they seem perfect for students whose universit…
October 12, 2004 at 11:36
Ooh nice! And it works beautifully with the IE5 theme. Looks like I need to learn how to UPX pack Firexplorer though now.
October 13, 2004 at 13:52
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October 13, 2004 at 21:50
Try Morgan Computers for the USB flash device. Belkin ones seem to be great value for money !
October 17, 2004 at 14:04
Portable Firefox & Thunderbird
Portable Firefox & Portable Thunderbird
Just extract to your USB pen drive (or similar) and use Firefox or Thunderbird wherever you go!
I tried this on my USB pen drive and my University network drive – it worked perfectly on both!
Hat Tip…