Bob Newman wrote:
> I am looking for a web browser to be installed on and used from my USB
> thumb drive. It will be used on other peoples computers and I do not
> want ANYTHING left on their hard drives. No temp files, no downloads
> etc. Does FF offer a version that will do this? Any other suggestions
> if not?

Have a look here....

http://portableapps.com/

cheers

Kol

Raskolnikoff wrote:
> Bob Newman wrote:
>> I am looking for a web browser to be installed on and used from my USB
>> thumb drive. It will be used on other peoples computers and I do not
>> want ANYTHING left on their hard drives. No temp files, no downloads
>> etc. Does FF offer a version that will do this? Any other
>> suggestions if not?
>
> Have a look here....
>
> http://portableapps.com/
>
> cheers
>
> Kol
I second that recommendation. I am as we speak working on a laptop that
I am NOT an administrator on. Totally locked down, I can't even install
printer drivers, nothing that tries to write anything to the registry.
Firefox and Thunderbird work well on thumb drive. My email is 100% on a
thumb drive (backed up reqularly of course), because I am on several
computers in a given week).

Portableapps has an entire suite that installs on a thubdrive with a
menu (FF, TB, OpenOffice, Antivirus, FTP program, Image editor, and more).


Steve

> Portableapps has an entire suite that installs on a thumbdrive with a
> menu (FF, TB, OpenOffice, Antivirus, FTP program, Image editor, and more).

This is something I've thought of - but I have a concern/question:

* How is performance? Thumbdrives aren't the fastest devices in the world.

* Does this mean I don't have to install anything on each individual
computer? IF so, how does that work - after all, virtually every
program has it's own set of .dll's, etc that get put all over the place.




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Steve wrote:
> Raskolnikoff wrote:
> > Bob Newman wrote:
> >> I am looking for a web browser to be installed on and used from my USB
> >> thumb drive. It will be used on other peoples computers and I do not
> >> want ANYTHING left on their hard drives. No temp files, no downloads
> >> etc. Does FF offer a version that will do this? Any other
> >> suggestions if not?
> >
> > Have a look here....
> >
> > http://portableapps.com/
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Kol
> I second that recommendation. I am as we speak working on a laptop that
> I am NOT an administrator on. Totally locked down, I can't even install
> printer drivers, nothing that tries to write anything to the registry.
> Firefox and Thunderbird work well on thumb drive. My email is 100% on a
> thumb drive (backed up reqularly of course), because I am on several
> computers in a given week).
>
> Portableapps has an entire suite that installs on a thubdrive with a
> menu (FF, TB, OpenOffice, Antivirus, FTP program, Image editor, and more).
>
>
> Steve
>
Just installed Portableapps on my thumb drive. Wow! What a great set of
programs that I can take wherever I go.
I set up a separate folder on the thumb drive where I can save my
emails, documents, etc. When I get home I can copy them back to my home
computer.

Question -- I use both FF and TB. I would like to copy both my bookmarks
and address book to the thumb drive. Where are these located on my
computer so they can be copied to the portable drive?

Also, my home computer uses Comcast as my ISP. If I am using the thumb
drive on a computer which uses a different ISP, will the connection
still work even though the settings on the thumb drive are for Comcast?

Chris Barnes wrote:
>> Portableapps has an entire suite that installs on a thumbdrive with a
>> menu (FF, TB, OpenOffice, Antivirus, FTP program, Image editor, and
>> more).
>
> This is something I've thought of - but I have a concern/question:
>
> * How is performance? Thumbdrives aren't the fastest devices in the world.
>
> * Does this mean I don't have to install anything on each individual
> computer? IF so, how does that work - after all, virtually every
> program has it's own set of .dll's, etc that get put all over the place.
>
>
>
>
No, the performance isn't up to HD standards. Far from it. But it does work
and in a pinch that may make a life or death difference. I have a load (20,
I just counted them) of PortableApps.com programs on a pair of 8gB thumb
drives which also contain daily backups of things like TB profiles,
newly-updated documents, etc. One of them is perpetually in my pocket and
the other is in a secure location elsewhere. If you intend to run any apps
from an thumb drive then it would pay to get the fastest one you can find
just to preserve your sanity.

Oh, in answer to your second question, the applications are recompiled so
that they keep all of their "stuff" locally and don't depend on the system
registry. Since all necessary data and support files are kept on the drive
you can simply pop it into any computer running a compatible operating
system, a menu shows up in your system tray, and clicking on it opens the
PortableApps menu and you can select what you want to do. A great idea --
wish I had thought of it.

John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com