Load Your Internet Software on a USB Drive
October 9, 2005 – 15:35 pmWhen you travel, it can be a pain getting your email, even if you have access to an internet connected computer other than your own. You have to remember all of your bookmarked pages, usernames and passwords. Well, John Haller has made things a lot easier by developing portable internet applications that you can load on a usb flash memory drive.
Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of the Mozilla Firefox web browser optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.
It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more (Note: It will not run from read-only media like a CD-R, but Portable Firefox Live will).
You may also be interested in Portable Thunderbird, an e-mail client; Portable Sunbird, a calendar program; Portable NVU, a html editor for editing web pages, and Portable OpenOffice, an office suite.
I easily fit a copy of Thunderbird, with all of my e-mail accounts loaded, Firefox, including my bookmarks, and Portable NUV, with all of my websites pre-loaded, on a 128 mb usb drive. Neat stuff.
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