I know portable browsers are supposed to be independent of the ones residing on the host computer but I must be doing something wrong. When I launch a browser from my thumb drive it winds up interacting with the browser on the host computer. By this I mean importing favorites, history or something such as this, also the other way around with the host computer's browser interacting with the portable one. Am I doing something wrong? Is there one portable browser better for this than another? I use Firefox on my home computer and would like to use something all together differt for the thumb drive just to decrease the chance of interaction. Any suggestions? Help please.
Thanks in advance... Bob
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If you launch Firefox Portable when your local copy of Firefox is already running, it just opens another window of the local browser. And vice versa. You can't run them at the same time without a special switch in the INI (see the readme.txt in Other\Source, note that we do not recommend this as it is not fully portable).
If you associate Firefox Portable with files or set it as your default browser, you're actually associating the copy of Firefox inside Firefox Portable, not Firefox Portable itself, and it will launch in local mode.
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So if the portable version is the only one running I should have zero interaction, correct?
Bob
Bob
If it's launched via FirefoxPortable.exe, yes. If you somehow launch firefox.exe directly (file association, Windows default browser and clicking links in another app, etc), then it will be the local browser.
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