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Portable Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird for Linux

Submitted by stefanx on October 23, 2008 - 4:16pm

I use several Linux computers and therefore require a portable Thunderbird but also portable Firefox for Linux. Thus I wrote two simple scripts to create a portable Thunderbird and a portable Firefox.

Please download the latest version from the following project page https://wiki.privacyfoundation.de/PortableLinuxApps

This is download-thunderbird-portable.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Configure the following variables according to your requirements

version="2.0.0.17" # usually most recent version
language="en-US" # e.g. "de" or "en-US"

Open with . . . no longer allows me to choose any of my portable apps

Submitted by Terry McCollough on October 22, 2008 - 4:01pm

I recently have been unable to open documents using the 'open with ...' in the context menu of Windows (XP) and searching to my portable apps (eg pdf with Sumatra). I have not done anything different. This behavior occurs on both my work machine and my home one (where I have administrator rights). It seems to have coincided with the recent windows patches from Microsoft, but I do not know if there is a connection.

Which download manager is better?

Submitted by ASJ on October 21, 2008 - 6:24pm

Hello all,

First time poster and PortableApps rocks!!!

I noticed that a new portable app was made available today called WinWGet. I have never seen or heard of this program before. I understand that this program is a download manager. Currently I use the Firefox extension called DownThemAll. My question is, which download manager is better? Would WinWGet be worth making the switch to or am I better off sticking with DownThemAll?

Thanks in advance for your input.

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