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Since Chrome is becoming less portable when does it stop being portable?

Submitted by Wm ... on March 9, 2015 - 7:06pm

I no longer regard Chrome as a PA, I use it quite happily in more than one work situation where I am performing a role. If someone wants to gather the mixed data from many people using a work system then they can feel free to do so. I think some people look for on-line stuff just because they are bored or want to play with google / chrome. That is none of our business.

What we should be wondering about is at what point, given the continuum, does Chrome stop being a PA ?

I think if someone said,

"Hey, there's this new browser, Chrome, can u guys make it portable?"

today

Bug in Chrome Version 40.0.2214.115 for Windows, Multilingual Portable

Submitted by islogged on March 5, 2015 - 11:19am

Hi,

I use many portable App from https://portableapps.com/ and i don't have so much problem !

Since i used Chrome Version 40.0.2214.115 for Windows, Multilingual Portable, 2 times i already lost my settings with this result : http://cdn.techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Chrome-automatic-sett...

The 1st time i think it was a mistake of me, then i set again manualy chrome, and extentions and i saved each step of the config in a solid zip file to prevent again this problem :

00-ChromeBase.zip
01-ChromeConfig.zip
02-ChromeConfig-Extentions.zip

installing on a USB that is used for multi-boot

Submitted by Steven Avery on March 3, 2015 - 10:09pm

Hi,

New to portable apps. Have a question, and it may be a bit of a beginners question.

I also am in the process of making a USB that is a toolkit, e.g. using YUMI from pendrivelinux (which are not portable apps.)

Is there any disadvantage in installing PortableApps on such a USB stick rather than a simple off-the-shelf USB? Will everything run ok from the point of view of the Windows puter that navigates to the portable apps folder?

Migrating ‘ Importing Settings ‘ Profiles of Apps to Portable Apps

Submitted by 333bb on March 1, 2015 - 12:20pm

With most likely wanting to migrate as many of their apps to portable apps as possible, it kind of amazes me that there is no main forum or sticky thread or main help page dedicated to just that subject.

Having a hard time importing utorrent settings for example.

A couple examples to start things off:
For Mozilla Firefox === this was working fine until l made FF my default browser - #(*()*)(*#@.
Copy the profile from within:
C:\Users\ZZZ\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
Paste it in within:
Q:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Data
Rename existing Profile folder to ProfileBU

sync s/w DirSync Pro

Submitted by Wm ... on February 27, 2015 - 5:18pm

background: I've been using FreeFileSync portable (the author's version not the PA one) for a few years now. Before that I used DirSync Pro. I've a grumble with FFS about it not writing logs at the moment so I took another look at DirSync Pro latest.

I like it. It is natively portable (though not in PA form).

Possible negs are that it is java so appears slower than FFS and munches quite a lot of memory on my XP era system, but that shouldn't bother people with shinier kit.

Portable Notepad++ loses settings on hibernation

Submitted by jonashilmersson on February 25, 2015 - 3:14am

Hi,

I'm using the Portable Notepad++ and am having some trouble after hibernation if the program was opened. Right after the hibernation on the first use of the opened program, it crashes. When I start it again, I get a message that it needs to clean up some files from the crash and does so and ends. When I start it again, my settings under the menu Settings/Style Configurator is lost, but changes made to Settings/Preferences are still in place.

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