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General discussions of portable apps and news.

PortableApps' HTTPS

Submitted by portport on October 9, 2014 - 4:49pm

"HTTPS" search result have too many false results, not sure if this has ever been discussed yet.

Why doesn't PortableApps support HTTPS yet? Will it add it at some foreseeable point in the future?

Is it consider unnecessary? Or perhaps it the difficulties of adding them.

Searching within the Platform for new apps

Submitted by PortableGood on October 9, 2014 - 1:19pm

Searching for portable apps within the PortableApps website is super simple: you just use the search field.

It would be great if the PortableApps Platform contained a similar search field to search for available apps. Perhaps it could even search for terms within the description of the apps and a list of tags.

PortableApps.com Carbide Drive and Donations

Submitted by caffeine on October 3, 2014 - 5:19pm

Sorry for the possibly off-topic post, but I'm not sure who this question would go to.

Just purchased the 32GB PortableApps.com Carbide Drive. A little pricey, but looks terrific. I'll be in Mexico for a month, so it's pretty much what I needed.

I read that they can be personalized with a laser etching, but I didn't see anywhere that asked me for what I wanted it to be personalized with (I wanted my name).

Anyone order one of these?

How do I let the order taker know what I want the etching to be?

How to verify an app file using the provided MD5 Hash key?

Submitted by LaurentZG on October 1, 2014 - 3:45pm

Hello,

I have for some time been wondering how I could verify the downloaded apps using the MD5 Hash keys, but have been unsuccessful in doing so.

I have downloaded and installed the Rapid CRC Unicode Portable app, but I am not able to figure it out. For example, and if Rapid CRC Unicode is the right app for doing this, if it's the install file of a downloaded app I should check or if it is all the files after installation....

Apps That Drop Windows XP Support: List, App Homepage Indications

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Submitted by John T. Haller on September 29, 2014 - 1:31pm

We're now starting to see more apps which are dropping support for Windows XP. I'm wondering how the community would like to handle this. We'd like to maintain a list of last-working versions for users to be able to obtain. We'll include a caveat about bugs, security issues, and it being unsupported, of course.

Foxit another instance of Foxit is running

Submitted by vhugo2 on September 24, 2014 - 12:41pm

I am using Foxit portable as my default PDF program. Though I have set it to open pdf's in the browser (IE) it will not. Also, if I open a pdf stored on my computer, and I then go to a website and try to view a pdf in the browser (say a form 1040) I get the message that another instance of Foxit is running and to please shut it down.

Can anyone help?

Desktop Chrome interfering with Portable Chrome?

Submitted by mindstormer on September 23, 2014 - 11:56pm

Have a very frustrating problem that seems to be a conflict between running both Desktop Chrome and Portable Chrome at the same time. I get the message "Chrome detected that some of your browser settings were corrupted by another program and reset them to their original defaults" and had to resync everything. This wouldn't be that big of a problem if it weren't for:

1. I have a bunch of open tabs on Chrome Portable that I keep losing (Xmarks doesn't backup because Xmarks is signed out and even though the extension is synced back after Portable Chrome is wiped, its settings are lost).

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