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Pale Moon vs Firefox Speed Comparison (Cyberfox, too)... Firefox is faster

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Submitted by John T. Haller on March 23, 2014 - 9:25pm

We've had a few requests over the years to make Pale Moon available. Pale Moon attempts to achieve speed by sacrificing some important bits like accessibility, but fails to achieve this goal by pinning to the outdated ESR branch of Firefox. The result is that Pale Moon is slower than Firefox.

As an example, here is a comparison of the current releases of each, Pale Moon Portable 24.4 vs Firefox Portable 28.0. It's a fresh install of each before each test is run. Here are the results for three popular browser benchmarks:

How to start a program maximized with parameters?

Submitted by Peter8087 on March 23, 2014 - 4:33pm

I want to make a program to start maximized when i launch it and i add this line in AppNamePortable.ini file:
AdditionalParameters=/maximized
But it doesn't work.

On the installed version of the program if i create a shortcut of the .exe file and from Properties set it to run in maximized window it works, but for portable launcher doesn't work.

I hope someone can help me with this!

I want to make this app portable

Submitted by Peter8087 on March 18, 2014 - 3:50pm

I want to make this program portable - http://justgestures.com/download/. If i extract the setup file with 7zip the program can be started from JustGestures.exe and it is working fine, but the problem is that it saves the settings in C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local, i am using Windows 7 x32.

What can i do to change the path for the settings folder? Do i have to edit JustGestures.exe and if yes how to do it?

These are the files from the extracted setup file:

portable apps writing to reg.

Submitted by jaskinner on March 18, 2014 - 2:01pm

I thought it was the idea that being a portable app. on could use on a thumb drive without it writing to the registry on a friends computer but I notice some do, as with PokerTH. I found 29 reg. entries. I can delete the program and shut down and restart and the entries are still there. Where does on file a bug?

Future of ToDoList Portable: Drop It or Mild Fork (Now Discontinued)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on March 14, 2014 - 11:56pm

I wanted to let folks know that, at the publisher's request, ToDoList Portable is temporarily unavailable. The author has indicated a dislike of the PAF package as some users have apparently been turning to him for support despite downloading it from us, seeing our splash screen, and having our help file next to the launcher. He is also upset by the dataloss issue that occurred with a handful of users who saved their data within the App directory and lost it on upgrade. The base app saves to its own directory by default and the PAF package did not take that into account.

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