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Donating Zero $USD

Submitted by hfs on September 30, 2023 - 11:16am

When I click donate I eventually wind up at the Select Currency section of the Donate page. Clicking USD (top entry) immediately takes me to paypal with a donation value of zero. I never get a chance to select the amount. Same result in Fedora-38/Gnome/Wayland/Firefox, Win10/firefox-portable, and Win10/Edge. At that point I just click cancel. Maybe I'll check back in a month or two and see if the behavior is more normal.

About menu positioning within RDP session

Submitted by rs232 on September 26, 2023 - 3:46am

I have noticed that the portableapp menu doesn't open in the bottom right (like when I use it on my local laptop) over RDP.
In this latter case the menu is positioned in the top-left corner. Would it be possible for the app to work out what the current resolution is (since RDP can really be anything) and so that the menu can always open at the bottom-right (relative to the resolution in use)?

Thanks

Widows DPI scaling issue

Submitted by rs232 on September 21, 2023 - 11:04am

I am running portableapps on my 17 inch laptop which comes with 4K display, Windows 11 provides the "Suggested DPI zoom" of 250% which I accepted to make things look big enough to be usable.

The portableapps seems to react decently to the DPI zoom settings (although it could be a bit bigger to be fair. However the install new app part is very small and doesn't seem to follow the Windows DPI scaling

Is there any way to fix this and/or can the app be thought with the above setup in mind?

Thank you so much.

Any commercial apps on portableapps.com?

Submitted by OryxDigital on September 20, 2023 - 9:56am

We have 3 commercial applications (prices in the range $30 to $99 per user for a perpetual license). They are all portable, in that they can optional store their preferences in a .ini file and are available to install as a zip file (as well as a Windows installer). We were considering making them available through portableapps.com. It doesn't look too difficult from https://portableapps.com/development/portableapps.com_format, mostly just a specific folder arrangement and a .ini file.

GoogleChromePortable won't update itself

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Submitted by Wisewiz on September 17, 2023 - 5:12pm

My GoogleChromePortable won't update through the internal updater, through Settings> Help > About Chrome. It keeps posting an error that says updater failed to launch. All my other portables from PortableApps.com update perfectly, and I'm assuming this problem is Chrome's fault. BUT, I'm a happy camper, because John keeps updating the portable releases right on time. I no sooner saw the notice online that a new version of Chrome was available than I found an updated version on PortableApps.com that updated my GoogleChromePortable perfectly. Thank you (again), John T. Haller.

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