Theplaceforitall.com has made available for download a two-in-one Mac OS X and Windows PC cross platform version of Firefox version 1.5 Portable edition so you can take your bookmarks, extensions, history, cookies, cache, web search engine favorites, and saved passwords and run this single piece of software on any Mac or Windows PC from a USB drive.
Clicking PortableFirefox.exe on a Windows computer will launch Firefox using the files in your portable profile. On a Mac, clicking “START OS X Firefox” will launch a script that makes your Windows portable Firefox profile folder compatible with Mac, and then it lauches Firefox using that profile.
There’s also a Mac and Windows PC Cross platform version of Mozilla Thunderbird at http://www.theplaceforitall.com/portablethunderbird/
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WADemosthenes
October 9th, 2006 at 2:12 am
1I’ve been using portable firefox, audacity, and openoffice.org. They work well in Windows (slower, as they are load from usb flash device). I don’t have a mac, but I would have liked it to work on Linux. I can’t seem to get it to work in my Ubuntu Linux partition. All in all, a good idea.
There is a firefox extention that uses a similar idea: Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2410/). You can create an account that saves all your bookmarks to their server, and when your on another computer you can download the extention, a sign in and your bookmarks are all there.
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