Running firefox from a flash drive

[chintz]

Sorry mods please this delete thread,found the answer. :rolleyes:

[Pingu]

you could always share the answer so anyone else thinking about doing it would know

[chintz]

you could always share the answer so anyone else thinking about doing it would know


good point, truth is I was asking on behalf of a mate and he just texted me to tell me he was sorted.
I will find out from him and post it up

[easy g]

cool...I'd like to know :)

[Xanadu]

I saw this the other day on the mozilla website. Lemme see if I can find it again.

edit:
http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/
http://portablethunderbird.mozdev.org/

[chintz]

ah thats the link my mate mentioned

he has it running on his flash drive and says it is very good, worth doing

[stdPikachu]

Pretty easy really; just hunt down the latest installer-less build (theer aren't official ones any more, but you can get all sorts of unofficial stuff from here (http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/)), unzip to somewhere on a flash drive and run firefox.exe. There's prolly a command line switch to use a different profile dir than the default ~/home one as well.

[easy g]

excellent...cheers Xanadu
the firefox seems to work :)

[Xanadu]

Pretty easy really; just hunt down the latest installer-less build (theer aren't official ones any more, but you can get all sorts of unofficial stuff from here (http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/)), unzip to somewhere on a flash drive and run firefox.exe. There's prolly a command line switch to use a different profile dir than the default ~/home one as well.

The portable firefox version writes to the flash disk as little as possible so the flash disk can last as long as possible AFAIK

[easy g]

what's the life span of a flash disk then?

[Xanadu]

Dunno, have a read of the specifications that came with it.

[stdPikachu]

The portable firefox version writes to the flash disk as little as possible so the flash disk can last as long as possible AFAIK

You're right, it's a better idea than using the nightlies, but I'd only just heard about it here.

Depending on who you listen to, flash memory has a lifetime of about 100,000 writes before it dies. This can be mitigated somewhat by using a filesystem which spreads writes across the whole disc rather than overwriting the same sectors over and over again (although this isn't an optino with windows).