 Does Anyone Like Portable Firefox? |
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 Mar 26 2007, 01:11 AM
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Newbie [Level 1]  Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 25-March 07 Member No.: 40,607  |
I love Firefox, but we have IE 6 at my school. I tried using Portable Firefox, but it runs unbearably s l o w and takes up almost half of my network drive space. Does anyone know how to make it faster or smaller? (or of any other super tiny browsers?)
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Mar 26 2007, 01:34 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 628 Joined: 20-May 06 Member No.: 23,968 |
You might want to try Opera Firefox isn't the best browser out there if you want to beat bloat. Lynx and Links are probably as light as you can go, though.
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Oct 15 2007, 04:43 AM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 284 Joined: 1-October 07 From: India Member No.: 50,968 |
Did you try the portable firefox from portableapps.com. I am using it...but thats not very slow. works pretty fast...
You might also want to try a smaller version of opera. was using it sometime back... i forgot the link... will post it here and let you know if i get that again... Also if you are very comfortable with portableapps.com...you might query them for more... and also there are more portable applications that you can use. Here is something that may interest you.... http://www.pendrivelinux.com/. This i recently stumbled upon and its just awesome. |
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Oct 15 2007, 05:29 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 102 Joined: 13-October 07 Member No.: 51,530 |
Firefox can be on USB stick, and take only 23 Megabytes. It best browser, but some people like opera. I don't like opera couse it is like IE and i have many problems with opera and javascript when ajax on some pages.
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Oct 22 2007, 06:36 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 22-October 07 Member No.: 51,899 |
The portable version of Firefox is rather interesting, considering you can save bookmarks and all of this other stuff while browsing the internet. It's perfect if you're on someone else's computer and do not wish to use what they have installed on their computer, or you want to keep your bookmarks on you. Unfortunately right now, I am currently running Internet Explorer on this computer because I accidentally left my USB stick at home, but I normally put that it and log into the computer network with Firefox.
The only problem is that the portable version I have is an older version of firefox, I am not sure if 2.0 will work portable or not. |
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Oct 22 2007, 10:06 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: 1-October 07 Member No.: 50,972 |
Thanks a lot, It's slightly annoying when I am used to Firefox and I go to someones house and I am on IE with none of my bookmarks or tabs...
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Oct 24 2007, 08:55 AM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: 23-October 07 Member No.: 51,922 |
As I know IE 7 has tabs. But I prefer Firefox
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Oct 24 2007, 10:04 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 21-October 07 Member No.: 51,849 |
i think a portable firefox is not needed these days... because almost every computer has one on it already. though some still likes IE better. oh well you cannot really please everyone with just a single browser.
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Oct 24 2007, 01:42 PM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 284 Joined: 1-October 07 From: India Member No.: 50,968 |
Ya...dualstriker.
You are right. Nowadays people want everything thats out there for free... They experiment a lot and finish it with the best. Firefox is very goo ...there is no denying that. I am using that.. But i find a small problem in Firefox...the memory that is occupied by firefox s very very high when compared to IE or any other browser. When my firefox is running, this is the application that consumes so much of memory. Something better could be done on this.... |
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Oct 24 2007, 03:20 PM
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