Take your web browser with you with a USB thumb drive
I thought it would be really cool if I could install FireFox on my USB keychain and take my browser with me. All my bookmarks on the go and I could run Firefox even when it’s not installed on the PC I am using. Well I found that other people had this same idea. After some tweaking I got Firefox to run from my USB drive and store all my settings there.
1. After installing FireFox 0.8 on my PC, I copied all the files (except the uninstall directory) from the c:\program files\Mozilla Firefox directory to the bin folder on my USB drive.
2. The next step is to create the folder “Application Data” on the root of the USB drive. This will give you the bin folder and Application data folder on the root.
3. I then created the following batch file to run the FireFox application. This is important as it will ensure your settings on stored on the the thumb drive as opposed to the local drive.
================== FireFox.bat ============================
set USERPROFILE=%cd%
set APPDATA=%cd%Application Data
if exist “\bin\firefox.exe” start %USERPROFILE%bin\firefox.exe %1 %2 %3
The next steps are optional, but recommended. Open FireFox. Click tools - options - privacy. Set cache to 0 (default is 50MB). This will save space on the drive. Now go and customize Firefox with some of the script found here. My personal favorites are Ad Blocking, Disable blinking elements, and Disable marquee tags.