Portable Browser: Opera

[Starfury_2260]

I've got Opera running off a USB flash drive (256mb) with no problems at all. Program isn't even slowed down. All I had to do was remove the drive letter and : from the ini files for instance M:\Opera\profile\... would become \Opera\profile\...
Opera can understand it without the drive letter.

Now I can use Opera on my college's library computers. No more junked up IE (they got all kinds of junk on these computers).
Plus I can go home and use filesync to synchronize the flash drive opera and the opera on my desktop.

Just need to figure out how to put Aspell on the flash drive so the spell check still works.

[Starfury_2260]

One very nice thing is that I can start downloading stuff with it to my flash drive and finish it later on any computer.

[noseBleeD]

Isn't portability great!
Mozilla is portable too.
Carry your favorites around with you in your pocket....

Firefox, opera , and a few more good ones = portable, forever free
IE = integrated, forever chained

[Starfury_2260]

From what I see online though Firefox's extensions aren't gonna work on a flash drive (drive letter changes). Can't really compare to Opera's feature set without the extensions.

[noseBleeD]

It seems that you can get both themes and extensions running with relative paths by editting the appropriate files. You need to alter any mention of an absolute path like this:

c:baseURL="jar:file:///X:/firefox/profile/extensions/GUID/chrome/package.jar!/content/package/"

And change it to a relative path like this:

c:baseURL="jar:resource:/profile/extensions/GUID/chrome/package.jar!/content/package/"

After you install an extension, exit firefox, open your profile\extensions\extensions.rdf file and make the changes above. After you install a theme, exit firefox and open your profile\chrome\chrome.rdf file and make the changes above. This will render the newly installed theme or extension portable.


Got there from here

Quote:

Download / Disclaimer

WARNING: This is an unofficial Firefox package. It is an official build, but has been modified by me. No warranty is expressed or implied.

IMPORTANT NOTE: As most USB drives advertise a finite lifespan of anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000 erase cycles, this package has browser history and disk cache disabled to minimize impact to your USB key.

* Download Portable Firefox 0.9.2 (5.8Mb download / 7.8Mb uncompressed)

Future should be/get easier... I hope.