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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

U3 FireFox

Submitted by InvisoSniper on December 21, 2005 - 9:36am

I have been following U3 for a while, and noticed 2 Firefox Items on the u3 download page. 1 by you, and one by yourbrainz.com.

The one by you says coming soon...
Is This True? Are you developing your version for U3?

The one Yourbrainz put out is not as friendly as yours because they made all sorts of changes to support Annon Browsing, as well as no mater what your Home Page is they will always be the First Tab (no way to disable it)Its really annoying with session saver.

Back to the topic
I Hope you are making a U3 version, If not I will still continue to use the Current version of PFF.

Idea: Generic Portablizer / make any app portable

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 20, 2005 - 4:49pm

I had an idea a while back and have been surprised not to find anyone else having the same. The quick summary:

Run a program in a "sandbox", similar to the Linux fakeroot tool, intercepting all accesses and changes to files, registry, etc., redirecting them to a different location.

It should be clear how this approach could make almost any application portable: simply run its installer in the sandbox, redirecting to your USB key.

There are bunches of other uses for this too, though: keep an easy archive of a clean, already set-up copy of an app; prevent two apps from possibly conflicting with each other; quickly sharing complex setups (e.g. to show the existance of a certain bug); easily moving infrequently-used apps off of the main disk... and finally, if locked down enough... run a questionable app (or web browser) in a sandbox where it couldn't mess with anything else. (chroot for Windows.)

PortableFirefox : Folder bookmarked in firefox

Submitted by yep on December 20, 2005 - 6:56am

Hello everyone,

For some reasons, I have to bookmark a folder (from my usb key where portable firefox is). I have thought that these case was managed by the launcher but apparently not.
Is it possible that the launcher could manage these case (every local url in the bookmark that point to the same disk where portable firefox is) ?

Thanks for your great job !

ASuite

Submitted by El Salvador on December 14, 2005 - 11:33am

I would like to present my launcher: ASuite 1.0. ASuite 1.0 is a simple and light launcher with 15 software (total size 8MB approximately) included.

However new version of ASuite is in work in progress.

Softpedia Link
Home Page (italian)

Launcher??

Submitted by Shaman on December 13, 2005 - 2:59pm

Can you make a launcher detects all portable programs (from PortableApps.com) and lists it? That would be easier and would be used in future projects?

And can you tell me what kind of programming language and tools do you use. I know some PHP but making programs will be cool too Smile
Maybe I make the launcher :cool:

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