Other Apps Support (Deprecated)

I just found out about UPX on this site and it seems like a very clever thing to use on portable programs. What I now wonder is three things.
1. Is it always good? Or can it cause unwanted problems in the programs?
2. What is the "downside" of it? Does it take more memory? Does it make the programs run slower from for example USB sticks?(USB 1.1? USB 2.0?)
3. What parameters should be used?
I have seen
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--best --compress-icons=0 --nrv2d --crp-ms=999999 -k
--best --compress-icons=0 --nrv2d --crp-ms=999999
on this boards... which to use?

Why not list portable Opera at this site? I used to use Opera before Firefox came out and am considering using it again. They also have a smaller footprint or application file size, making it more portable in terms of storage.

Pre-built portable Opera:
http://www.opera-usb.com/operausben.htm

Customize Opera yourself to be portable
http://www.chooseopera.com/CDProject/portable.html

Ok so I read a few post on this and tried a bat file https://portableapps.com/node/151
but i still can not get this app to run from my thumb drive. Did i miss the answer or does anyone have one yet?

Hi,

I test IrFanView for U3 but I can't install languages nor plugins ... ?
Do you know how to do ?
Regards,
Will

I'd like to know how to translate portable applications to french and, by extension, other langages. I tried to translate some langage files, but the applications don't work anymore. Do you have a solution ?

Most Linux users are familar with Damn Small Linux. Their goal is to provide thin, yet full featured Linux Live Business Card CD. It offers a full suite of applications, sound and networking support and even extending it with add-ons without re-mastering the LiveCD. In fact, yesterday they released ver 2.1.

For a while now, they've offered an "embedded" version aimed at x86 machines and utilizes QEMU as its x86 virtual machine. It's different only in that you can launch it from a Windows Batch script or Linux x86 shell script.

The embedded version also has a 60 meg virtual harddrive to save your changes.

This program is cool, but it sucks if your drive name changes letters. Any one know if i can fix this somehow?

Whenever I use PStart, it usually takes 2 clicks or so to open it. Why is this so? And even after I close down PStart, it still shows on Task Manager. This isn't really a trouble, but I am curious as to why this happens.

I thought I would share this with everyone as I didn't see the application listed on this site.

Portable Firefox + Portable RoboForm

Portable Firefox can be used from any portable drive without installing it on a computer.

http://www.roboform.com/browsers.html#browser_mozilla

The Mozilla Adapter executable didn't work for me so I just went ahead and installed the roboform-firefox-1.5.xpi extension and it works a treat.

Pass2Go (Portable RoboForm) was the first application I had that was truly portable and got me interested in trying to run everything I need from standalone installations on my portable drive. Then I discovered John T. Haller and his portable applications such as FireFox and Thunderbird which was great and then became an obsession ;). I am glad that this community has grown and will hopefully drive the development of more of these types of applications. Keep up the good work.

Hello all,