It's very nifty. I just wish there was a firefox plugin to synch your USB drive bookmarks with the ones on the computer, so updating them as they drift would be simpler.

Also, I'd love to see a version of putty / winSCP that doesn't use the registry (or some secret file), since they're also on my USB drive, but the settings stay with the computers instead of me.

On 4/14/05, Brian Kelsay [email protected] wrote:

Oren was talking last week at the meeting about putting Thunderbird on a flash drive and so this seemed appropriate.

Windows-only for now.

PUTTING FIREFOX AND THUNDERBIRD ON A FLASH DRIVE I had a caller on the radio show last week who wanted to put Firefox and Thunderbird on a USB flash drive. I said it could be done, but that it would take some work that I just could not explain on the air. (Note: If you don't know what a flash drive is, I cover that below in the Rookie Rundown below.)

The way that I did it was to create a profile on the drive, copy some files and do a bit more tweaking. Well, Brad, in Spring Hill, TN, wrote me to say that much of the work has been done already. You just have to download the portable versions. You can find all of the details on these sites. Thank you, Brad! You rock! http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/ http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_thunderbird/

Brian Kelsay

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