[Outdated] Google Chrome Portable "OK Let's Try This One More Time" Edition

As Google describes it (some webcast I watched once), the Safe Browsing files contain the first 32-bits of hashes of bad urls. If a match is found, the full hash is sent to Google's servers to verify it's not a false positive. Google returns the URLs that hash to a hash starting with those 32-bits. This method nicely ensures the user's privacy IMO while still keeping the hash list small.

Not sure what happens if the safe browsing filter is gone, I imagine it forces Chrome to redownload it, maybe protection isn't available while this is happening in the background... anyways. Still it is a good 50mb, but if it's redownloaded every time it's deleted...

I may tweak RunLocally so the Safe Browsing files (and perhaps the rest too) are only copied back if they have changed. I'll have to see if NSIS has something for that, if not, I'll have to find a plugin or code a quick and dirty console app in C++ to do it.

I actually know a good tool... Microsoft's robocopy, a "robust copy" tool that lives up to it's name (only it's a bit dumb when you ask it to move files on the same drive, it physically reads and writes instead of just updating the directory pointers) but it's only included with Vista. For XP it's an optional add-on you have to download.

I won't fix the little glitch with the launcher name. Seems a bit too much work (even just two API calls) to fix a problem no one will likely experience. Unless you can give me a good reason someone might change the filename.

Thanks for the recommendation, but IMO the best "official" PortableApps.com release would be a custom Chromium build tuned for portability, and maybe with a PortableApps.com theme, too. It would also allow for it to be packaged with a more light-weight launcher and a simpler installer (instead of the current "download-and-optimize" installer).

I suppose it's a project I could consider tackling in the future, but last I tried Chromium doesn't compile in VS C++ 2008 Express... which is sorta a prerequisite for me to consider making any changes to it. And besides John Haller might still do it some day and save me the trouble.

I was thinking of making an "official" release on my blog and finally putting a link to it in my downloads section. But that's not quite the same.

The actual online Flash installer probably won't work since it's a generic, downloadable installer and it will install Flash for local browser only. So here's what you do, we have to do it manually.

First you need to make sure you've got Flash installed locally... the non-IE version (cause it's different from the IE version). If you can view flash stuff in Firefox or Chrome you're good to go.

Now here's what you do:

1) Go to Start > Run and type %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\Macromed\Flash

Hit OK and you should get a window with the Flash files.

2) Open another explorer window to your GoogleChromePortable folder. Go to App\Chrome. Make a directory called Plugins (you should have a numbered directory, maybe a Dictionaries directory, chrome.exe, maybe one or two other files, and the new Plugins directory). Go into thie directory.

3) Copy the following files from the Flash window into the Plugins window: NPSWF32.dll, NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe, flashplayer.xpt. Make sure you COPY and don't move or else you'll break Flash on the local system.

That should do it. IIRC that's what I did for Firefox Portable.

Parameters passed to GoogleChromePortable.exe will also be passed to chrome.exe

Unfortunately there is no way to add parameters to the PortableApps Menu... I may add an INI setting in a future release or something to work around this. However most other launchers have that functionality.