making firefox portable
Forenoon Filings has recently mentioned a few of the helpful plugins and extensions that are available for Firefox, but as with most advanced users - it will be the case that you will be using Firefox in more than one location and likely on more than one machine. So the problem arises of how to keep multiple copies of your browser in sync.
Doing this manually is possible, but hardly an efficient use of time - especially if you are trigger happy with installing extensions. However, a new script has been made available which is designed to be cross platform (Mac and PC currently).
What this does is it allows you to store your settings and even extension information, so this can be mounted on a portable storage device (like a USB key or even iPod). As long it is plugged into the host machine of machine of choice - you can configure Firefox to read in all your saved settings - so wherever you are, you have a customised portable version of Firefox running.
This script works with a modified version of this browser - Portable Firefox which is currently at version 1.0.6 (the lastest stable release at the moment).
Doing this manually is possible, but hardly an efficient use of time - especially if you are trigger happy with installing extensions. However, a new script has been made available which is designed to be cross platform (Mac and PC currently).
What this does is it allows you to store your settings and even extension information, so this can be mounted on a portable storage device (like a USB key or even iPod). As long it is plugged into the host machine of machine of choice - you can configure Firefox to read in all your saved settings - so wherever you are, you have a customised portable version of Firefox running.
This script works with a modified version of this browser - Portable Firefox which is currently at version 1.0.6 (the lastest stable release at the moment).
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on Monday, September 12, 2005 at 9:26 pm.
