| DJDK |
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| Sun Jan 09 2005 09:35 PM |
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Run Firefox from removable media, eg usb pen drive
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This advanced tip makes it possible to run Firefox from removable media, such as a USB memory stick. This will allow you to run Firefox with your personal settings from any computer, even those that don't have Firefox installed. It has only been tested on Windows XP/2000. The basic instructions are as follows:
1. Copy the Firefox application folder and your profile folder to the removable medium. In this example we will use R:\Firefox for the application folder and R:\FFProfile as the profile folder, assuming the drive letter for the removable media is R:.
2. Create a simple batch file called R:\Firefox.bat with the following line:
start \Firefox\firefox.exe -profile \FFProfile
3. Optionally, disable the disk cache to reduce the amounts of file writes to the removable storage by entering about:config in the address field of Firefox and set browser.cache.disk.enable to false.
The reason why a batch file is needed instead of a simple shortcut is that a shortcut uses absolute paths, and since the actual drive letter for the removable media may change depending on which computer it is plugged into, the relative path used in the batch file is guaranteed to work anywhere.
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| Neill |
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| Sat Jan 15 2005 08:41 PM |
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Re: Run Firefox from removable media, eg usb pen d
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How do you create a batch file?
| DJDK |
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| Sat Jan 15 2005 09:42 PM |
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Re: Run Firefox from removable media, eg usb pen d
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in note pad. on saving type .bat
in this case the file should be called Firefox.bat
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| Neill |
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| Mon Jan 17 2005 09:47 AM |
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Re: Run Firefox from removable media, eg usb pen d
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Did it, seems to work ok, thanks.
| DJDK |
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| Mon Jan 17 2005 10:09 AM |
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Re: Run Firefox from removable media, eg usb pen d
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your welcome
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| Pureferret |
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| Sat Feb 19 2005 06:50 PM |
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Re: Run Firefox from removable media, eg usb pen d
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I've gotten firefox to run but I can't get it to use my profile(with all of my extensions etc.)
Can you think of any reason why that would be?
p.s I have FFProfiles and in that I have the 4k7b2ejy.default folder, should all the files just be in the FFProfiles folder.