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why firefox portbale is so slow on my USB Flash Drive

Submitted by aron on September 16, 2008 - 8:17am

my usb flash drive's reading speed is about 10m/s, the writing speed is about 4m/s
when i'm running firefox portbale on my usb, each operation is slow, not fast as the firefox on hard disk of pc.
I can see the flicker of light on my usb drive when i'm using firefox portbable.
Is that my usb slow, or something wrong else?

Sync apps between usb and c:

Submitted by schwooba on September 15, 2008 - 1:35pm

Is there a performance hit by running portableapps off the c drive rather then installing them. I was thinking about syncing my usb apps with my c:\apps so I could run them off the hard drive for better performance. That way, if I forget my usb drive, I'll also have a copy on my computer.

I was going to sync...
apps usb c:
data usb c: (encrypted)

and use Toucan to sync during plug-in of usb or unplugging.

Anyone have a better way of doing this?

PortableApps in the Context Menu?

Submitted by Jacob Mastel on September 13, 2008 - 12:08pm

I've noticed that when I'm using Portable software I'm often a little annoyed at not having the context menu buttons (the right click options). So I was thinking (yes I know scary) wouldn't it be nice if we had an app that could be configured to add in context menu items for portable software. My thought would be a setup simmilar to how 7-zip is configured (7-zip > options). The app could be configured to any app on the flash drive. I don't mean something like eXpresso that monitors by .blahs. The context menu would work on any file.

Poratable Quake 3 demo

Submitted by crush on September 12, 2008 - 11:22am

I downloaded the free demo from ID Software's website for Quake 3, and tried to install it to my thumb drive. It seems to have worked and I've used it on a computer that has never used Portable Apps before. I was just wondering if anyone else had an issue with this or has there been any known issues with using Quake 3 (demo) from a USB drive?

PortableApps.com CD - Worldwide Delivery...

Submitted by w2net on September 12, 2008 - 2:49am

Hi everyone,

We, The Rozaleenda Group, Inc., global provider of Web, Media, Software, E-Business, TV and Telecom solutions, want to distribute PortableApps.com products (specially full PortableApps.com Suite) in high-quality retail-ready CD-ROM around the world, and in INDIA (since we are based in India). We can market worldwide via internet and ship to many major countries with a very low shipping cost. And, we can market PortableApps.com in India regionally, by providing CDs to various retail stores etc.

Screenshot issues.

Submitted by statement on September 11, 2008 - 4:47pm

There's a certain inconsistency with the screen shots for a lot of apps listed here.

For example:

https://portableapps.com/news/2008-09-11_-_xenon_file_manager_portable_1.5

The screen shot in this page doesn't link to a bigger image.

https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/xenon_portable

but on this page the screen shot does link to a bigger image.

Another thing, if you have javascript disabled you can not view the screen shot.

It just goes to the page where the image was supposed to be and displays this

Page Not Found (404 Error)

Licenses

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Submitted by LOGAN-Portable on September 11, 2008 - 8:30am

I often encounter that all Portable projects must be GPL because otherwise they cannot be hosted on Sourceforge. But on further examination Sourceforge has a list of many licenses. The main ones are:

GNU General Public License (GPL)
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
BSD License
Public Domain
MIT License Apache License V2.0
Artistic License
Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1)
Academic Free License (AFL)

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