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Using Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition on your USB thumb drive

Firefox has come out with a new edition called Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition.

It allows you to bring all your saved history, bookmarks, cookies, & passwords with you where ever you go. It also has the side benefit of storing everything you did on your own USB thumb drive instead of on the other machine you are working on for those of you that are a lil paranoid about snoopers or your boss checking up in you.

You can download Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition here:

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Click on the download link on that page & save the file to your USB Drive. Then open up the file on your thumb drive & click on the executable file to install Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition to your thumb drive. Now any time you want to launch Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition just click on the FirefoxPortable.exe file name to open up Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition .

If you want to use all the same history, bookmarks, cookies, & passwords from the Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition on your pc from home, you can just copy the profile from your home machine to your thumbdrive.

You can usually find the files to copy from your home computer in this location on your hard drive:

C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.???\

Just copy the contents of that folder (except the cache directories) to the FirefoxPortable\Data\profile directory. Then, and this is important, delete the file FirefoxPortableSettings.ini within the FirefoxPortable\Data\settings directory, if there is one. When you start Firefox Portable for the first time, it’s recommended that you turn off disk cache, password saving and history if you’re using a flash-based portable device.

Installing Plugins (Flash, Shockwave, etc.)

With Firefox Portable, plugins work a bit differently than they do in regular Firefox. Here’s how to do some of the most common plugins:

• Flash Plugin - To install Flash, follow these steps:
  1. Flash is available as an extension. Just click the link.
  2. You’ll probably see a yellow bar across the top of the browser (if not, skip to Step 5), on that bar, click Edit Options
  3. In the popup window, click Allow to add PortableApps.com to your whitelist and then click close
  4. Now try the link again
  5. You’ll see a popup asking if you would like to install, click OK after the countdown and follow along the prompts
• Shockwave Plugin - To install Shockwave, follow these steps:
  1. Download the free Shockwave Player from the Macromedia website
  2. Run the installation routine and, instead of letting it install to a local browser, select to choose your browser
  3. Browse to X:\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox (where X is your device’s driver letter) and continue with the installation
  4. You may need to restart Firefox Portable for the changes to take effect
• Other Plugins - Other plugin directions are coming soon…

No Portable Java - Sun’s Java VM needs to be installed on the computer you are working on as it makes a slew of registry entries, etc. There is no way to make it portable at present, so you will only be able to use Java-enabled sites on machines that have the Sun Java VM installed on the computer you are working on.

Enjoy!

Tags: Computer Help, firefox, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition, usb thumb drive, Web Design

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