Tech: Portable Firefox -WOW!

Subject: Tech: Portable Firefox -WOW!
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 05:10 AM

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!

Portable Firefox cam be downloaded FREE from these people, BLICKY - portableapps.com

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.

Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: Tech: Portable Firefox -WOW!
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 05:22 AM

Mudchat seems to work okay using the portable browser - there was only me in it, but all the functions appeared to be doing what they should do.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Tech: Portable Firefox -WOW!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 06:05 AM

There's been quite a bit of buzz about this "technology" recently. It appears to be something that several manufacturers have been working on for some time.

In full-form versions, you might load your entire computer into your memory stick and essentially have a "computer without a processor." When you plug your stick (or mini hard drive) into another computer all your applications run on any available processor, with the same "personality" you had set up on your original machine. (According to the marketing hype.)

I don't think anyone has produced one yet that will take the entire OS along to a machine of a "foreign kind," but it's a "declared goal." It is claimed that existing ones can sense peripherals connected to the machine you plug into and substitute the ones present for ones you had on your source machine. "Seamlessly" is an oft-used word....

One-inch portable hard drives are at 4 GB or more, I believe, so it's becoming fairly easy to take a program or two along. Larger ones have been announced but availability is "variously reported."

John

Subject: RE: Tech: Portable Firefox -WOW!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 11:30 AM

You can run Firefox on a hacked PSP.....

Subject: RE: Tech: Portable Firefox -WOW!
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 03:58 PM

I haven't got a hacked PSP, Clinton. I've got a USB Key stick thingy (excuse me if I get too technical).
I'm still pretty impressed and it's hours since I first installed it on the USB thingy.
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: Tech: Portable Firefox -WOW!
From: open mike
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 01:30 PM

i can see some problems with this technology
for terrorists if they can use a computer
without any trace of their identity..
ah well, something bad always comes
of something good and visa versa.