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Thread #89494 Message #1688978
Posted By: Geoff the Duck
09-Mar-06 - 05:10 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Portable Firefox -WOW!
Subject: Tech: Portable Firefox -WOW!
Yesterday whilst searching the web - can't recall what I was looking for _- I chanced across a link to a web site which has a bunch of Portable Applications for runing on a Windoze PC. They are designed to load into a USB Stick and you just plug it into a computer, do your work and then unplug and take it with you.
One of the apps is Portable Firefox - a free standing version of the Mozilla browser. I am checking it out as I write.... So far I opened it on one computer and set my Mudcat Cookie. I also listened to Isambarde - see This Thread. Firefox downloaded and installed an add on to play the file. Then, after dropping the twins at school, I opened another computer and used it to set my bookmarks to both my Personal Page (which I didn't need to log into, because the USB Stick now has my Mudcat Cookie saved with Firefox) and the main Forum. I am now back at the first computer where I used my bookmarks (set whilst plugged into the second computer) to get to Mudcat. I am incredibly impressed!
This may be the answer for some of the people who usually have to sign in cookieless if posting from their workplace. As long as you can get it past a firewall and have a USB port, you do not have to leave any trace of your surfing on your workplace computer. Let me know what you all think.