General Discussion

Just wondering if anyone knows what windows theme or skin is used to get the grey/black looking windows that they use in their pictures for examples?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v691/alexxone/portable_firefox.png

Any info would be greatly appreciated. ^_^.

nice plug
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1846805,00.asp

Well, I read many threads, but I didn't find anything with 7-z's portability.
Just want to know if it's portable, and where I can get a portable one if there is.

By the way, can anyone tell me how to create a zip with 7-z?
The official site said it supports to pack a zip, but I still don't know how to do it after checking the whole program.

How can I know if an app is portable？
Sorry, I don't know what to search for this question. /_\

Is portable app the same as green software?
Can somebody explain to me, please? orz

@John T. Haller
I tried to use an AIM link in my signature, but the forums can't handle it. The following link:

<a href="/aim:goim?screenname=fatcerberus">

...ends up linking to https://portableapps.com/goim?screenname=fatcerberus instead of aim:goim?screenname=fatcerberus.

Can you fix this? I'd like to put a clickable IM link in my signature, but this bug prevents me from doing so.

Hello all... I'm back! Didja miss me?

Sorry I've been away -- I (unexpectedly) had to leave for about a week... Long story.

Did I miss anything?

~nm35

John-Would putting a search forums box/link right next to the main forum page, be helpfull?

Also maybe putting that link as a sticky on every individual forum topic?

It seems that people can't find the search box in the upper right corner of the site.

Maybe they think that is not for the forum section.

Seems like it needs to be more prominent for people.

Hi all,
Pretty new here, but PAs are totally changing my life for the better! I've got a DiskGo 256MB USB watch and a OCZ Rally 1GB. At first I thought the watch (10mb/sec) read might be too slow. However, all applications I need basically run the same spead (once tweaked). Sorry to digress, just thought I'd let people know before they buy expensive USB drives.

What I would like to do is the following: have a launcher come up automatically everytime I plug in. I would also, like to have the drive either encypted (does doing this on the fly slow performance?) or at least password protected?

When I was investigating how well PAs would work for me I macro'd trials to test the speed of PFirefox.

Under the same conditions, switching every few seconds to make up for network fluctuations, PFirefox outperformed an identical regular Firefox. This happened after several thousand trials on 3 different computers with 3 different ISPs, for 6 different websites! I don't know how or why, but I love it!

Portable Firefox loaded identical pages faster than a regular Firefox install in all of 18 scenarios.. by between 3 and 21 percent faster!