Portable App Development

The title says it all. While changing my PFF context menu in firefox\chrome\browser.jar I noticed the JAR wasn't compressed. It dropped from 1.101KB to 337KB after zipping.
So is there a disadvantage to compressing them all?
BTW I store PortableFirefox on a HDD-based MP-3Player. Does this count as "IPod or MP3-Player" or as "Portable Harddrive" in my Account-settings?

New idea It seems I'm going to annoy you more

A program for backing up configuration files (bookmarks, extensions) of Thunderbird, Firefox, etc. will be really great. Plus, update function will be good too.

Good or bad idea???

I have a problem about suites. I only have 2 choices and it's not enough. I need Firefox, Thunderbird, NVU, Sunbird, FileZilla, Gaim and PStart but there isn't any suite contains that files.

So I said "a suit maker would be great!"
I am using PHP for 1 year. There is a gz library which allows to zip and unzip .gz files. By using that library we can create a suite maker page.

Hi,
I would like to present a launcher in the public domain (CC licence) named "AeTrayMenu". It's easy to customise, and the sources are available on the web site of the author (developped in Delphi ).

url :
http://www.xs4all.nl/~broekroo/aetraymenu/

Hi,
i'd like to ask, "How do i submit some patch for Portable Firefox?". i've written some patch to fix the problem of Chinese BIG5 Character, a kind of NON-ASCII Character. i'd like to submit it. How do i do that? Thanks.

I use several Java-executable apps on my USB thumb-drive. These should not require additional development (but this seemed the best forum anyway

PLCash.jar - a personal finance program
JTides.jar - a tides calculator
SatFinder.jar - a satellite finder (for television, hams, etc)

All the above can be found at http://www.arachnoid.com. Be sure to read the developer's statement about what he calls "CareWare".

This may sound rather simple and unimportant, but I have been trying to figure out a way to create a shortcut on the root of the drive, to my portable apps execution files within thier respective folders. I have been able to create batch files that work, but I would like to assign icons to the "shortcuts" so they are more easily distinguished from one another. Any thoughts?

I would suggest using a shorter Friendly Cache name, ie instead of:

"PortableOpenOffice Launcher runs OpenOffice from a removable drive",
only
"PortableOpenOffice"

I modified it manually, but I think it would be better that the default one is shorter.

Best regards,
Mguel