Firefox again… but portable!
July 5th, 2005 - 11:13am - No Comments »
I know I don’t talk about Firefox often enough, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to do so.
I’ve just spend a little bit of time this morning configuring and installing Portable Firefox onto my USB drive. Firefox wasn’t running especially well over a network drive at work; and since I take my USB drive home every night, and back to work every day, it makes sense.
So now, all my favourite extensions (bar Greasemonkey) are installed and running from the USB drive. Unfortunately it’s Windows only, but since most of the computers I’m likely to use it on will have Windows installed, I don’t consider that a big issue.
There are a few other limitations (such as no cache, no history etc) but this is almost a non-issue. There is even a ‘Live’ version of Portable Firefox (a ‘Live’ version of software or an Operating System means that you can run it directly from a CD-R and write little-to-no files onto a hard disk — Auditor is a good example of a ‘Live’ OS) though it’s still early days for this version.
