Comments on: FirefoxPortable – Your Mobile Office Without a Laptop

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:08:00 +0000

I use PortableApps sometimes if I can’t be bothered to take one of my laptops with me. Gives me a known clean app to use on a “foreign” PC. Keep meaning to get around to a full OS install on USB key so that I know I’ve got a clean secure environment to work from.

By: Aedus

Aedus — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:25:43 +0000

The same PortableApps site referenced above has MirandaPortable, which has a Skype plugin that can give you a better portable experience then trying to run Skype on a USB.

By: PlayStone

PlayStone — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:17:56 +0000

Has anyone been able to run Skype on a portable environment?

By: jont17

jont17 — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:42:03 +0000

I thought that most internet cafes had their machines pretty tightly locked down and I’m surprised that you can run this kind of thing, have any of you had problems with this?

Another problem I had recently in a cyber cafe was a French keyboard which switched character sets depending on the web page you were looking at, swapping around Qs and Ms, which made typing passwords quite tricky!

By: AlexW

AlexW — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:09:24 +0000

I actually use it on a shared home computer. Means I can browse with own bookmarks, extensions, bookmarklets and cache immediately without needing to logout and back in from the default user account.

The only issue is it isn’t upgraded inline with the main Firefox branch, but it still reports back to Mozilla that it’s older — consequently Mozilla keeps advising you to upgrade — even though the installed version may well be the latest release.

By: Jozian (Jeff Jockisch)

Jozian (Jeff Jockisch) — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:39:47 +0000

Sounds pretty nice, if you just can’t function without your own web browser.

But for me? I’ll stick with RoboForm2Go on a USB. For all my links, usernames, and passwords. I havent lugged a laptop since I bought it about a year ago.

Add remote and shared apps like Google Notebook, Google Docs, Google Calendar, iGoogle (for rss feeds) and Mail through Yahoo, Goggle or my SideKick, I’m hardware independent.

By: charmedlover

charmedlover — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:58:00 +0000

Yeah, I did not see Opera listed on that website, although it is very easy to install portably. Then you only need one application to read your email too.

By: Tyssen

Tyssen — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:26:24 +0000

I did a similar thing last time I was on holiday except that I use portable Opera as my mail client instead.