Just wondering, is it possible? If it is, then we should do it like portable Java.
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Not unless Adobe is willing to give us permission to modify flash player, which will probably never happen.
the only workaround I know is to simply copy the files of the flash player from your local install to the plugin folder of your firefox on the portable drive. (the plugin folder under data)
Then you can use it on computers where flash is not installed.
You can find the files under system32\macromed\flash
There used to be kind of on line installer in the form of an extension, but this does not work any more, as adobe does pack the download file somehow strange and it can be apparently unpacked only by their installer which will then install it to their default on the local system.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
it will still leave cookies behind each time you run flash.
it will, it will also leave those supper cookies. OK, somepeople use this 'better privacy' for that, so they are removed on closing the browser.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
any other cookies that existed before the user used Flash. So if the guy before was playing a flash game that saves progress via Flash cookies, all that progress would be lost, and he'd have to start over again. Not to mention that cookies you create won't be carried with you as you move from PC to PC.
Hence the big push to HTML5 by Mozilla and others. Google's on board, and YouTube is transitioning, but there are still a bunch of videos that require Flash. Flash is a mess and Apple was 100% right to leave it out. Yeah, Adobe threw a fit, but I don't see them working to remedy Apple's concerns. On a computer, Flash is no big deal, but it requires a pretty fancy phone to use. Even a few Android phones from last year aren't getting Flash (ever). 2010. Can't do Flash. Ouch. Mine's one of them, which is why I don't mess with YouTube. Even with the app, some videos (that are Flash only) just won't play. HTML5, they will.
If YouTube isn't the OP's concern, and games are, I've played a couple decent HTML5 games. It's viable enough. Flash is a dinosaur that needs to be extinct already. Until then, the plugin copy hack is great. Works for me, and so does using CCleaner to remove all the cookies when I'm done.
NathanJ79 wrote Until then, the plugin copy hack is great. Works for me, and so does using CCleaner to remove all the cookies when I'm done.
Please let me know how you get the FFP to work with Flash. Can't watch youtube with my portable edition. Tried copying folders to extension folder with no luck.
If Youtube is the only reason you want flash, I suggest trying Google Chrome Portable, which will let you watch Youtube without flash player. It uses HTML5, which, to some, is the killer of flash.
@impeesa
link? try here: https://portableapps.com/node/29601
>Tried copying folders to extension folder with no luck.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Pyromaniac's suggestion that you try Chrome is probably closer to what you want that he realized; as such, you might find it interesting to know that Google Chrome includes it's own Flash bundle since June 2010 (in the stable release), and it works just fine (in my experience anyway) in Google Chrome Portable … stock (no manual copying of files necessary).
Also there shouldn't be any problems copying it into Iron [or Iron Portable] and/or Chromium, and I know it works to add it to Chromium Portable (kAlug [Developer of Chromium Portable] even wrote a short tutorial for doing so (which you should be able to follow for Iron too), though it's easier for most people to download & install Google Chrome Portable, and copy the files from …\GoogleChromePortable\App\Chrome-bin\
VERSIONrather than downloading Google Chrome's full installer and extracting them for themselves.And on a side note, I've heard tell that you can use
GCSwF32.dllfrom Google Chrome in Firefox (and Firefox Portable) by copying it to FF's Plugin Directory (…\Data\pluginsin FFP), and renaming it toNPSWF32.dll(though I have yet to test this)~3D1T0R
I have been looking for something like this so I can use DISH Online through a USB Flash Drive. Thanks for the information.