Flash Drive capabilities?

[HabaneroBuck]

Does anyone know of any way that you can place a web browser program (Firefox) on a USB Flash Drive and use it to run on a computer that does not have the program installed on its hard drive? Some way to format the Flash Drive so you go up to a computer that already has an internet connection, run Firefox through the USB rather than IE, then take the thing out and leave no Mozilla stuff on that particular computer?

 

[iambrutus]

i dont think that can be done.

if it could, i would image that you try doing this:

download the firefox setup file and run it, during the install, try pointing it to the usb key. if that works, then take the key to a new comptuer and look for the firefox executable on the usb key, not sure if that will work or not, but i'm betting on the not side of things.

 

[HabaneroBuck]

i dont think that can be done.

if it could, i would image that you try doing this:

download the firefox setup file and run it, during the install, try pointing it to the usb key. if that works, then take the key to a new comptuer and look for the firefox executable on the usb key, not sure if that will work or not, but i'm betting on the not side of things.

Your vote for not would be correct...thanks for the help though.

 

[BrutusMaximus]

Yeah when you install firefox, it has to tie in with some of the windows system stuff for it to work correctly on that machine.

 

[rocketman]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820191862

I think that guy has an internet browser and email built into it and stores all the cache and whatnot to the flash drive.

 

[buck1973]

I've never tried it, but here's a link:

http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/

Links to more portable apps:

http://www.techtastic.ca/articles/portable.html