Official Portable Version of Browsers

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#1

Which Browsers have Official Portable Versions?

Thanxx
Naren

#2

Comodo Dragon (www.comodo.com)
Opera Software - Opera (www.opera.com)

Thats all i know so far

Hope this helps
Jake

#3

Hi naren,

all “Official Portable Version of Browsers” can be found here

Firefox, Chrome, Iron, Opera, Maxthon

Hi Jacob,

??? since when?
I was asking for that from day 1 this browser was born. The thread died, but as far as I remember - the latest sad “news” was - No - there is no such thing as real portable version of CD

Can you please point to precise link where real portable CD can be downloaded?
That is the main reason I’ve never tested it … & I’m not interested whatsoever … until real portable release

Cheers!

#4

Hi SiberLynx,
Using the standard installer you have the option to choose portable mode during install.
See here.

#5

the portable version was added when v12.1 was released

#6

Hi Siber.

Unfortunately, the applications repackaged under the portableapps banner aren’t necessarily ‘official’. For the most part, they’re produced by third-parties, either with or without the blessing of the developer.

Edit: As a side note, depending on what you want from a ‘portable’ version, a lot of the main browsers are simply compressed archives, which can be opened with any compression utility such as 7-zip. Once unachieved, you can usually run the application directly. This is true for firefox, chromium and all it’s re-badged siblings and opera. The ‘problem’ with this approach is that these applications write to %appdata% as opposed to keeping profile data in the same folder as the main application. They also generate registry keys. There again, some ‘official’ portable versions suffer from this as well.

#7

:slight_smile: Thanks Radaghast,
I do like any input of yours here in the forum

Well, l I am using portables from the said site referred for ages
I haven’t seen any complaints yet from the developer(s) “who were not blessed” heheh ;), but seriously

  • I mean: no arguments from any developer (you can correct me if I’ wrong) and those Apps are really portable

I do appreciate the link and comments posted by other participants here captainsticks & wasgij6

…and I tried … and I can see a lot … at least more than 22 entries in the registry after just quick installation into USB Flash Stick & very brief analysis of Dragon ( in a hurry at the moment - gotta run)

will try to get more sense out of it , but nothing like that happened yet after installing all “official” portables :slight_smile: mentioned by me above

Cheers to all of you, Guys!

#8

lol thanks :-[

Well, l I am using portables from the said site referred for ages I haven't seen any complaints yet from the developer(s) "who were not blessed" heheh ;), but seriously - I mean: no arguments from any developer (you can correct me if I' wrong) and those Apps are really portable

Indeed they are truly portable and as far as I know use true stealth when in use.

...and I tried ... and I can see a lot .... at least more than 22 entries in the registry after just quick installation into USB Flash Stick & very brief analysis of Dragon ( in a hurry at the moment - gotta run)

will try to get more sense out of it , but nothing like that happened yet after installing all “official” portables :slight_smile: mentioned by me above

Cheers to all of you, Guys!

Looking at the portable (those from the developer, not portableapps) installations of Dragon and Opera, Dragon appears to use complete stealth - nothing written to the disk or registry - where as Opera creates a single registry key:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Opera Software]
"Last CommandLine v2"="C:\\Users\\GCB\\Desktop\\Opera\\Opera.exe "