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Thoughts on removing the Firefox enable vs disable session store on first run

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Submitted by John T. Haller on August 4, 2009 - 12:09pm

I'm debating removing the current prompt to enable or disable session store on first run of Firefox Portable. 3.5 has improved performance of the storage on flash drives due to some bug fixes just for Firefox Portable over 3.0. I'm wondering if folks out there are still running it with session store disabled or not. And, if those who have a slower drive and are running it off could try enabling it and see what the performance difference is.

Thanks!

need help (Setting Environmental Variables Temporarily )

Submitted by habenyamin on August 4, 2009 - 3:24am

Hi
I searched about it and also I found A lot of using script for Setting Environmental Variables Temporarily at site ( redirect folder)but I don't know why didn't work with Nsis launcher
also here
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Setting_Environment_Variables

StrCpy "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY" "$EXEDIR\Data\${DEFAULTSETTINGSDIR}"
System::Call 'Kernel32::SetEnvironmentVariableA(t, t) i("APPDATA", "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY")
when run Nsis Launcher with this code Portable APP made setting in AppData
folder again (why didn't make Directly in the $SETTINGSDIRECTORY?)

Installer not open source?

Submitted by jamcomm on August 1, 2009 - 10:20pm

PortableApps.com Installer says the installer licence is:

"License: Free / Open Source (GPL) with exceptions for freeware and free open source. Commercial use by contacting PortableApps.com."

I've noticed comments in other posts suggesting you can't use the installer unless you confirm to the "paf" standard?

This doesn't sound like opensource software to me - let alone GPL'd software!

Free as in FREEDOM, not price!

[Poll] How would you like to see freeware and commercial software appear in the PortableApps.com Applications Directory?

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 31, 2009 - 7:36am

As many of you know, we're starting to allow 3rd party open source and freeware publishers to package in PortableApps.com Format and will soon allow commercial publishers to do the same. The goal being to make as wide an array of software available on our open source / free / open platform as possible so that we'll never have to worry about a vendor-locked portable platform again. This does raise the question, though, of how to list this new software and distinguish it in the applications directory. So, I've created a poll:

Is that allowed ?

Submitted by Sakura on July 31, 2009 - 6:24am

Hello everyone ,

I want to ask the PA team which kind of applications are allowed to included to portable apps. At the moment I develop on an advance wars dual strike rebuild.

http://mini-wars.over-blog.com/

The program itself is written in Java and I saw in the last months the portable Java has grown a lot in portability.
I want to publish the full playable beta soon and this program is fully portable.
Furthermore I'm a big fan of portable apps ( all my programs are from portable apps ).

JKDefrag doesn't run with minimum permissions

Submitted by nottRobin on July 29, 2009 - 11:36am

Hi everyone.

Congrats on prizes at Sourceforge, totally deserve it.

I'm trying to run JKDefrag on a computer in my university library and it continually pops up a box asking me to login as administrator. And of course I don't have the password.

Does anyone know if it's possible to get JKDefrag to run with minimum permissions? (isn't it a requirement of PortableApps...)

If not it doesn't mean I don't want PortableApps to support it, 'cause it's still an awesome app.

BTW isn't there a JKDefrag Portable support forum? Couldn't find one.

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