From my experience...FlightGear is an excellent program...but doesn't seem to work portably (and requires admin privs to install). I'd like to see a portable version of it made. (And I'm sure many others would also)
Program: FlightGear
License: GPL
Description: An open source advanced flight simulator (and more!)
Website: http://www.flightgear.org
Why: FlightGear is a HUGE program. I don't want to install it on every computer I want to use it at nor do I want to wait for the 225MB installer to download. And of course, I can't install it at all on limited accounts.
If I'm suppose to provide anything else, please ask. Thanks.
EDIT: I've noticed that there are other similar requests but none with a suitable response. If you are going to say something about its size...please don't. Most modern drives can store the program with ease.
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I think that because its so large, even with compression, it will run REALLY slow on the average flash drive. I think that if you wanted to run that app, you would have to get a REALLY fast flash drive or external harddrive to run the app. Why don't you give it a shot yourself?
I can run Deus Ex, a shooter based on Unreal Tournament '99, off my flash drive and the game runs fine, and portably it's about 600MB. The only problem is saving - it takes a few minutes.
It worked fast when I first tried it out and now the folder is nearly 150MB and growing (I like to save my History) and it seems noticably slower then when i first got it.
addons and such. Plus the fact that 3 is noticeably slower then 2.
Oh, if you use tab mix plus, it slows it down a bit. I know because I noticed the lag. I decided I liked having the extension was worth waiting on the lag.
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I have 3 addons and no themes on my FFP. I have no tab mix plus. I think firefox 3 is slower than when i first got it and it worked faster than my firefox 2. So I disagree.