I'm just trying to get back in the hang of things, so I thought I'd try a quick something like SpeedyFox.
Application: SpeedyFox
Category: Utilities/Web
Description: From the site:
Mozilla Firefox is a fast browser, but with the lapse of time it starts working much slowly. The reason is fragmentation of profile databases. A free tool SpeedyFox is designed specially to resolve that problem. The method used in SpeedyFox is 100% safe for your profile (e.g. bookmarks, passwords, etc), it's well documented and tested on many computers.
Download SpeedyFox Portable 1.4 Development Test 2 [271KB download / 403KB installed]
(MD5:88a9b4f2a3add556cee87a161c4bfb63)
Release Notes:
Development Test 2 (10/27/09): Fixed the downloading problem with a workaround.
Development Test 1 (10/24/09): Initial release
- John: Is there a way to change how the installer complains about not having a launcher executable? I had to make a dummy exe to get around that :(.
- Apparently the installer doesn't download the SpeedyFox executable. Why?
This should be fixed before posted as a release. The installer should do what it's supposed to...install the app.
Also - you should not have "?MB installed". You should have an actual installed size, just as every other app does.
I'm on a library computer, and while it's soooo... much better than the public library's computers, it still doesn't let you right click on explorer windows.
I'll get to fixing it now...
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I'm stumped. Why won't it download?
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It does but you need to fill in DownloadTo in installer.ini
EDIT: OK, scrap that, I see you're downloading it to the main folder. Never tried that before, is that supposed to work?
EDIT2: It's in USER\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files. Doesn't look like downloading to the main folder is supported because if I change DownloadTo to App then it appears (in App).
I just thought of a nice workaround. I can use
App\..\
for theDownloadTo
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on there site and it says its a 0.3mb size download
why do you say it's a 271mb download?
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It says 271KB which is about 0.3 MB.
my bad
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I changed it and didn't say I did }:).
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I fixed the problem with the downloading by using
App\..
as theDownloadTo
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This is cool!
It saved me 14mb which isn't much but its something! I like it.
The next thing I'd do is to pass the firefoxPortable location directly to the app
Or ask the devs to implement a feature that shows you how much space you saved (like AppCompactor has).
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I...Will...Try...
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but maybe make it an ini option because not everyone has firefox in the standard location.
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I haven't tried an AHK tray GUI before (other than modifying AutoMemScan) so I'll start with trying that.
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I would have thought all you'd need would be to pass it as an argument or whatever, and then ExecWait? (You could weight Firefox before and after if really wanted.) I haven't tried the program though.
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Yes it is...
But I want to do overkill and make a unobtusive GUI tray.
Thanks for the idea of weighing Firefox... it'll make people happy :).
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This is my 1st homebrew tray GUI, and it's still in the works. It works, unless if you give it a drive letter that isn't the same one that it is on (dynamic drive compensation is hard).
Written in AHK.
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Here's a compiled version for the truly lazy :P.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1468369/PADump/SpeedyFoxBG.exe
(MD5: 25412b97f89afe5b896a2d5b7a8fe2cd)
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So is that the fixed version now?
It's a compiled version. I don't want to work on it any further until I get some feedback.
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OK. I got it - it asked for the EXE file, then FF profile location and then nothing happened..?
The original speedyfox.exe on the other hand seems pretty portable to me - what traces does it leave behind?
None, supposedly.
As I said, it's a work in progress. I guess the next thing on my list would be to add some debugging features.
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