Portable Apps

I’ve often found myself discomfited browsing the Net at a public computer or even with a friend’s PC – where’s my favourite browser? where are all my bookmarks? What is my mail password and so on.

Portable Apps are a good solution for this. I had some time yesterday to actually configure 2 portable apps on my thumb drive ((Portable Apps can eat up disk space. I’ve lost about 50 MB of my 256 MB drive to these apps, but I consider worth the space and I’m not going to be transferring gigantic files using my thumb drive anyway.

1. Pass2Go – Roboform’s portable password manager. Intergrates beautifully with an existing standard installation of Roboform as well. Never forget a password again!

2. Portable Firefox – Probably the app that started the Portable application craze. It doesn’t pay to copy your standard Firefox profile blindly over though. I wound up hanging my Portable Firefox install when I copied all the extensions I use over.

I ruthlessly went through my extensions folder, copying over only what I absolutely needed as extensions. My final portable firefox extension list is below:

  1. Flashblock
  2. Connection Manager
  3. Tabbrowser Preferences
  4. SiteAdvisor
  5. Google Toolbar
  6. Adblock
  7. SessionSaver (I can’t quite make up my mind on this one)
  8. Roboform (Pass2Go works with Portable Firefox thanks to this :) )
  9. CoComment
  10. Greasemonkey
  11. Luna Theme
  12. Filterset.G Updater
  13. ImgLikeOpera

I was astonished at the final result – When I started up Portable Firefox, I actually wondered “Did I start the portable app or regular firefox”? It felt that similar.

I totally recommend Portable apps now – in fact I’m looking for an excuse to whip out my thumb drive now :)

PS: A good result of that exercise was that I’ve got a better idea of the plugins I really really need. Time to clean up the Firefox extension list :)

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