Run Firefox from USB Drive

[Frank Bohan]

How to Run Firefox from a USB Flash Drive Portable Firefox is a special
version of Firefox that allows it
to run from your flash drive.
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/

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[Frater Mus]

How to Run Firefox from a USB Flash Drive Portable Firefox is a special
version of Firefox that allows it
to run from your flash drive.
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/

I just installed a vanilla copy of FF to USB and it seems to do fine.
Of course, I'm only running it from one machine (not allowed to
install FF at work, so I run it from my keyring).

 

[J44xm]

["Dave"; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:01:41 GMT]

Said it before,Firefox doesn't need any special versions to run from
USB. Neither does Thunderbird. The instructions are in the mozilla help
advanced section... [...]

You're right, all right. I just tried this with Firefox 1.0.6 and found that
once I copied my profile and plugins folder to the new application folder,
it's working perfectly. Thanks very much for pointing this out. Makes me
wonder what the point of Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird is,
really. Is there *any* advantage?

 

[Dave]

["Dave"; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:01:41 GMT]

Said it before,Firefox doesn't need any special versions to run from
USB. Neither does Thunderbird. The instructions are in the mozilla help
advanced section... [...]

You're right, all right. I just tried this with Firefox 1.0.6 and found that
once I copied my profile and plugins folder to the new application folder,
it's working perfectly. Thanks very much for pointing this out. Makes me
wonder what the point of Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird is,
really. Is there *any* advantage?

I've been doin this ever since I found it in the help section.Love it
when I use a pc somewhere else and all they have is IE.(also have all
the bookmarks and mail all the time. a couple of xcopy bat files keeps
the profile folders synced with my desktop.

Dave

 

[Andy Mabbett]

also have all the bookmarks and mail all the time. a couple of xcopy
bat files keeps the profile folders synced with my desktop.

Please elaborate...

 

[Dave]

Please elaborate...

G would be my flash drive in this bat file.

this line puts the profile on the flash drive

xcopy "C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
\ufb97u81.default" g:\ufb97u81.default\ /s/d/y

Just reverse the Bat file to update the desktop after using the flash drive.
Just substitute your particular profile names(its the same for Thunderbird)


Dave

 

[Dave]

G would be my flash drive in this bat file.

this line puts the profile on the flash drive

xcopy "C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
\ufb97u81.default" g:\ufb97u81.default\ /s/d/y

Just reverse the Bat file to update the desktop after using the flash
drive.
Just substitute your particular profile names(its the same for Thunderbird)


Dave

couple of quick notes

might want to clean the cache in Firefox before copying(bunch of useless
temps)
and in Thunderbird if you change your mail folders and newsgroups a lot
you might be better off using XXcopy with the /CLONE switch

Dave