[Outdated] Google Chrome Portable 3.0 (Stable/Beta) 4.0.206.1 (Dev)

4.0 works on vista home premium 64bit
found bug the themes don't get saved when u close the boarder goes 2 the blue default boarder

Works great! About time you updated too, I've wanted to update my Chrome Portable to a current version for ages, but once your installer became PAF compliant I could no longer use it to copy my local install.

Oh well, good things come to those who wait. Chrome 3.0 is really nice. Speedwise Chrome kicks Firefox's butt (even 3.5) any day.

After trying many versions of chrome, portable and not portable, I have yet to find one that limits the cache (the one I'm using right now has 400MB of cache). I don't like to empty the cache manually as it is tiresome after n times, so is there a way to just set a limit (like 32MB) to the cache folder?

Thanks Mazzter

1. I installed the 3.0 launcher and everything and let it get set up.
2. I then deleted GoogleChromePortable\App\Chrome-bin and added GoogleChromePortable\App\Iron.
3. I copied GoogleChromePortable.ini from GoogleChromePortable\Other\Source to GoogleChromePortable
4. I edited the ini it is pasted below.
5. When I try to run GoogleChromePortable.exe I get an error which says: "Google Chrome, Portable Edition cannot be started. You may wish to re-install to fix this issue. (ERROR: chrome.exe could not be found)"

I looks like the launcher is not reading the ini or the path is hard coded into the launcher.

EDIT: I did some more testing with a fresh install. If I rename the Chrome-bin folder to Iron and update the ini, Chrome loads properly. But if I rename chrome.exe to iron.exe and update the ini, the launcher returns the error above. It seems like your launcher is not reading the ProgramExecutable properly.

EDIT 2: This is confirmed. I downloaded Iron from SR Ware and copied it to the GoogleChromePortable\App\ folder. If I use the ini below it does not work. If I rename iron.exe to chrome.exe and use the exact ini below it works. For some reason chrome.exe is hardcoded into the launcher.

EDIT 3: Line 161 of the launcher is looking for something that doesn't exist. It is looking for "Google ChromeExecutable=" and the ini has "PROGRAMEXECUTABLE=". So either you need to update the launcher or update the ini and re-release.

; This file contains the Google Chrome Portable default settings.
; You can copy this file to GoogleChromePortable\ and change settings in it.
; Any settings missing from that file will have their defaults (listed here) used.

[GoogleChromePortable]
Google ChromeDirectory=App\Iron
; The main app directory
ProfileDirectory=Data\profile
; The profile directory
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
; The directory containing settings (unused)
AdditionalParameters=
; More parameters to pass to chrome.exe, use to enable experimental features.
ProgramExecutable=iron.exe
; The EXE name
WaitForProgram=true
; Waits for the program to run.  Don't set to false or else cleanup won't happen for
; RunLocally/CacheInTemp or running from CD.
DisableSplashScreen=false
; Disables the splash screen.
DisableIntelligentStart=false
; Umm... this doesn't seem to do anything. >_>;
RunLocally=false
; Forces the profile to be copied to the local computer, as the portable app is run from a CD.
; The profile will be copied back to the portable device afterwards (minus cache files).
CacheInTemp=true
; If this is true, the disk Cache will be set to use the local computer, and will be deleted on exit.

; Note that using either of the previous two options can represent a risk of other users of the same computer
; discovering your internet surfing activities on that computer.  Although Google Chrome Portable deletes the
; locally saved data when it is finished, it is possible this may not happen (Google Chrome Portable or the computer
; crashes) and even if it does, some of the data may be recoverable using disk recovery tools.  For this reason it is
; recommended you use Incognito mode for any browsing you don't want others to know about.  HTTPS browsing is never
; written to cache and thus not an issue.

ImportJava=false
; If true, it will import the Java plugin from a copy of Java Portable if you have it installed, and if
; you do not already have a Java plugin installed in Google Chrome Portable.

Is there any chance that a portable
stand alone version of Google Chrome
could get packaged?

thanks

Hi,

I am testing the dev version and would like to know if the launcher permits the creation of a directory of User Scripts and where in the directory structure must that directory be.

Thanks in advance.

José Pinto

i upgraded to 3.0 went to use it and had all my bookmarks gone any reason why

Is it possible to develop a Flash plugin isntaller like John did for Firefox Portable?

Is it possible to use scripts portable with this? If so where to put them?

Thanks for your great work,it works fine for me.I've updated it to 4.0.220.1.

I tried GoogleChromePortable 3.0.197, and every time I close the program, the entries in the Registry that are related to the JavaRuntime disappear!!

I manage to solve it temporarily, reinstalling again Java, opening application "regedit" and exporting the tree of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft, so eveery time I close Chrome, I import again the exported entries.

Not sure why but Chrome doesn't always seem to retain bookmarks. All other settings seem to be maintained (I think) but bookmarks have dropped a few times Can't isolate any specific cause. Has this happened to anyone else?