Would it be possible for you to make portable versions of Mozilla Firefox Campus Edition? I know that students who visit and use this site may find that useful because it comes preloaded with the addons FoxyTunes, StumbleUpon and Zotero. A little less work for them since then they wouldn't have to go find and download those addons. Just an idea.
If possible, you should create a Custom Firefox that you designed. For example, it would come with pre-installed addons of your choosing. Addons like SafeCache, SafeHistory, Secure Login, AdBlock, etc. We could have a vote and pick a few of the best addons, whether they be for Security, Convenience or Just For Fun. You could call it "Mozilla Firefox - PortableApps Edition"
You can view the Campus Edition at:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/add-ons/campus/?utm_source=mozilla&utm_medi...
I don't know, it was just an idea that popped into my head as I was looking at the Firefox homepage. Let me know what you think, and please don't be too harsh with your comments. Thank you.
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we (John) can't do this as the agreement John negotioated with Mozilla only allows him to do the official versions. I might be wrong though.
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Does that agreement state that the PortableApps version of Mozilla Firefox must be the standard version, and cannot be redistributed with addons included?
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
If campus edition is official mozilla, John could try to get approval for a portable version for that one too I guess...
All Campus Edition is is Firefox with some plug-ins pre-installed. It would most likely be easier for you to install the plugins yourself, than for John to try and make another package (possible legal issues, plug-ins may not be portable, etc.). The idea of this site is to keep things simple, and if users have 5 different variants of Firefox to choose from, that's gonna make things more complicated. I'd say it's best to just keep the standard version, and users can add their own plugins/addons/themes.
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Sorry about that then. By the way, I've tried many, many addons with my Mozilla Firefox and they all worked fine in a portable state, all except ones that are meant for regular Firefox, not Portable Firefox. Ones like FEBE
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
FEBE works fine for me in Portable Firefox, It's not really needed since we are able to just clone the PFF folder for backup, but it does count the number of and tell you which extensions/themes so I can make sure that all my copies have the same stuff. That comes in handy when you have 45 extensions and 16 themes.
I guess that, if you have all 45 extensions installed and enabled at FFP, you can't be having the fastest experience of your browsing life, hehehe.
I have 22 extensions installed and last week I disabled 5 of them and noticed that the FFP is a lot faster them before.
Anyway, to be portable, an extension should do more than work with FFP. you have to be shure it doesn't leave anything behind after you close FFP.
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Wow, and I though my 10 extensions were alot. They are mostly security-related addons plus a few others like Download Statusbar, Clean & Close and Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer.
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
I would imagine those 45 would play hell onto a flash drive, but all of my PFF's are either local HD, portable HD, or Network Drives and they run great!!