Firefox on a Thumb Drive

15 July 2004 56 Comments

Utilizing the advice from the good people over at Mozillazine, I was successfully able to setup Firefox on a thumb drive so I can use it wherever I go.

Here are the steps.

1. Download a fresh build of Firefox from their FTP site.

2. Extract the contents to a folder on your hard drive.

3. Create a directory called profile in the Firefox directory.

4. create a file called firefox.bat within the same directory that firefox.exe is in. Include the following line.

start firefox.exe -Profile “profile/”

5. Completely close all Firefox sessions and run this batch file.

6. Check the profile directory to ensure that it is populated with files and folders. If it isn’t, you haven’t closed Firefox completely.

7. COPY the contents of this folder to defaults/profile

8. Download and install extensions and if you have an existing set of bookmarks on another Firefox install, copy it into this directory from USER/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/profilename/bookmarks.html

9. copy the entire Firefox folder to your thumb drive. Run it using the Firefox.bat file

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56 Responses to “Firefox on a Thumb Drive”

Slant 2 November 2005 at 9:27 pm #

[Best mindless zombie voice] Must convert Jeff Clark’s mom to Firefox. :p
Slant 2 November 2005 at 9:27 pm #

[Best mindless zombie voice] Must convert Jeff Clark’s mom to Firefox. :p
Slant 2 November 2005 at 8:27 pm #

[Best mindless zombie voice] Must convert Jeff Clark’s mom to Firefox. :p
Slant 2 November 2005 at 9:27 pm #

[Best mindless zombie voice] Must convert Jeff Clark’s mom to Firefox. :p
Slant 2 November 2005 at 9:27 pm #

[Best mindless zombie voice] Must convert Jeff Clark’s mom to Firefox. :p
Slant 2 November 2005 at 9:27 pm #

[Best mindless zombie voice] Must convert Jeff Clark’s mom to Firefox. :p