(To better continue from here: https://portableapps.com/node/39306)
Link to article:
http://liliputing.com/2014/05/unhappy-chrome-firefox-alternate-web-brows...
Mission: I'd really like to have the option to run quite a few browsers or profiles at the same time.
I keep Chrome only as a secondary browser because it comes with Flash. I uninstalled the universal Flash plugin from my system and what it to keep it that way.
Question: what might be some interesting browsers for you from the above article (or in general) or for me to do the trick?
Pale Moon? Check
https://portableapps.com/node/23295
Opera? Check
https://portableapps.com/node/38809
Sleipnir Web Browser? Meh
https://portableapps.com/node/31245
Just to have the numbers. Maybe.
Comodo Dragon is still controversial; John says it's not safe; others are OK with it:
https://portableapps.com/node/39422
Not to mention the Iron controversy:
https://portableapps.com/node/34465
trustu - May 6, 2014 - 6:10pm
Bottom line: what is some reasonably number of alternative profiles or separate browser installations (hopefully fully featured browsers with plugins and all) I can get to work together seamlessly in portable mode?
Separate profiles or separate installations? That is the question. But I'd really like to run quite a few together for various purposes.
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Pale Moon's big thing was supposed to be speed (compile directives to drop support for older CPUs) but it's slower than Firefox.
Opera is in testing but not released yet as it needs custom code to portablize the passwords (aka, its own portable version isn't actually portable).
Sleipnir I can't speak to.
Both of Comodo's browsers are demonstrably insecure as they lag behind the base browsers they are built on. At any given time, their Chrome and Firefox-based browsers are a point version or 3 behind the base browsers, meaning they lack patches for exploitable security issues that have been patched and publicized.
There really isn't a controversy over Iron. It's Chrome with a handful of Google bits removed. That's it. Not really a big deal. Some people hate the fact that that's all it is and it comes with a homepage and search change so the publisher gets money from it. Other people don't care much. Chromium Portable does the same thing, incidentally.
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I've used Chromium portable and using Xchromium portable right now.
I also have QTweb which is a ultra low requirements browser.
Using any browser on a USB drive sucks, as its runs slow, flakey and freezes a lot due to slow write speeds of this drive. I got round this by making a temp RAM disk to make the browser operate on, this gives an almost-Chrome like experience. A RAM disk runs 20x faster than an SSD
To be honest, other less know browsers are likely to suck due to less HTML5 support which is going to be needed for modern cloud based applications. I certainly would like to see the end of Flash which is often buggy and has to be updated to often too.
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I just run as many instances of Firefox Portable as I want to. Since I'm running them on my own system(s), I don't really care about any "remnants" left behind because the launcher terminates at startup. I could run a dozen--or more--if I wanted to, though I typically only run 3 or 4. That's what AllowMultipleInstances, aka -no-remote, is for.
Of course, you can still run other browsers, too, depending on how much memory you have available.