Portable Firefox.

TjPhysicist · 2008-10-20 05:40:25

Anyone who uses firefox a lot, and has multiple PC's prbly have heard of Portable firefox. Its firefox on a USB stick. But since it was ttaken over by "portable apps", the linux version is gone. I have made a small (altho not very tidy) "wrapper script" with the directories and everything you need. It runs on LInux as well as Windows portably, and it uses only ONE settings. This means that u can take it anywhere and have ur setting even if that machine has (*GASP*) windows...

I was wondering how many ppl wud like this? I can improve the wrapper to get more tidy etc if ppl are interested.

KimTjik · 2008-10-20 08:00:44

I use portable Firefox, but the Windows version. It's unfortunately rare to find a Linux box in some Internet Café, but even if as long as Wine is installed it has, at least until today, worked well.

creslin · 2008-10-20 08:12:32

Personally I just use foxmarks.

filou.linux · 2008-10-20 08:27:28

foxmarks +1

TjPhysicist · 2008-10-20 08:57:44

foxmarks eh...looks interesting. i made this cuz i like my add ons tho. I jst use googlle bookmarks for my bookmarks if i have to !

creslin · 2008-10-20 09:24:31

I'm actually a little more interested in the script itself than physically using it. I don't really expect to change my current setup since I'm very used to it and it fits my needs, but I'm still interested to see what you did just out of curiosity's sake.

TjPhysicist · 2008-10-21 09:57:46

ok first, boot windows (or wine) and download and install Portable Firefox into a folder (say FF). Then copy /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3 (or whatever) from ur linux box (which has FF installed oof course) into that folder as is. So /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3 -> FF/firefox-3.0.3. THEN copy ur profile into the data/profiles directory (this is where Firefox portable for windows keeps the profile, and i can't change that without recompiling). Then put this script as FF/run_firefox.sh

!/bin/bash
#move old profile out and copy new profile over
mkdir ~/.mozilla/firefox.old
mv -v -f -t ~/.mozilla/firefox.old ~/.mozilla/firefox/*
mv -v -t ~/.mozilla/firefox/ ./Data/* 
echo "Running FF"
#run firefox
cd firefox-3.0.3
./run-mozilla.sh firefox
cd ..
#remove new profile and put back old one.
mv -v -f -t ./Data/ ~/.mozilla/firefox/*
cd ~/.mozilla
rm -rf firefox
mkdir firefox 
mv -v -f -t firefox firefox.old/*

ITs not the best, but it does its job

-Tj

creslin · 2008-10-21 10:08:01

Ah I see what you mean now, cool

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Portable Firefox.

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Re: Portable Firefox.

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