I would like to save Mozilla Firefox to a USB Flashdrive but doing it for the first time.What is the minimum USB size that I should use and how easy is it to save to the USB - I have downloaded Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome to my computer but cannot recall being asked where I want it to be saved.
Thanks to anyone being helpful.
petergee
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What you downloaded are the installers that install Firefox, Chrome or any other app from this site to your drive. So no matter where you saved them (I you werent asked, they are most likely on your Downloads folder), you need to run them afterwards and then point them to your drive. So if your drive's driveletter is E, you install them to E:/
The size is a few MB up to some 100 MB depending on what you do with your Firefox. All currently available drives are much larger than that so thats not the issue. More importand is the fact that most apps but especially Firefox need a fast usb drive to work normally. On slower drives, you will experience pauses, hanging and a general slowness.
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I did try firefox at slow 5/10 write/read mb/s and fast 12/20 mb/s usb flash drives. It was way too slow for me. Both flash drives showed nearly same spees. Usual HDD much faster, not saying about SSD.
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when you have it on your usb flash, it is just slow when it starts, when it runs it is not much different, so you can not say that it is faster when on usb hard drive as the limit would be rather the usb connection then anything elese.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
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The Firefox app binaries are only around 50MB.
However many of my profile folders are getting up to about half a GB, and I regularly trim them down, wiping the cache etc.
But as JH pointed out, this isn't a problem with modern flash drives.
The speed issue is indeed critical, see this thread I've started to address that topic:
https://portableapps.com/node/37405
Note that the crypto-drive being flogged here in partnership with PA.com is actually disappointingly slow.
Personally I'd use it for the security features only (which do look excellent), maybe keep my TrueCrypt and GPG keyrings on that, but use a faster drive for my day-to-day normal work that isn't sensitive.
To make up for my panning the drive - which does generate revenue to support John's work - may I take the opportunity to encourage everyone to make a direct donation here: https://portableapps.com/donate
or for industry companies to consider sponsoring here: https://portableapps.com/donate/sponsor
The speed of the encrypted drive works well with all our apps. Even big boy LibreOffice launches relatively snappily from it. Otherwise we wouldn't be selling it. You can get faster encrypted drives like a higher end Iron Key but you pay for it. It's quite a bit faster but is up to triple the price ($599 for the 32GB S250 or $329 for the 32GB D250), doesn't have antivirus (another $42.50), only has a year warranty, etc. And it has the issue of needing to run an app to unlock so it doesn't work with Android, TVs, etc. The goal with Carbide is to make a relatively inexpensive drive (for FIPS, water/dust/shock resistance, plus the insane antivirus extras, etc) that works well with portable apps and works everywhere. It's the fastest drive available with the pin-code authentication feature. Who knows... we may follow it up with an even higher end one later if there's enough interest.
If you're more worried about speed than encryption, then the PA.c Companion fits the bill nicely, starting at only $30. It works with things like TrueCrypt but note that, as always, TrueCrypt will only work on your own PCs as it requires admin rights even in traveller/USB mode. So you likely won't have access to the files in the TrueCrypt partition at work, school, library, net cafe, hotel business center, etc. If you just need it to move to/from your desktop and laptop or have admin rights on your work PC, then it's a solid solution.
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