Firefox 'portable' browsers - Mainline and ESR, 32- and 64-bit...

[AQUAR]

Just played with the 64 bit mainline portable and it works a treat.
Was surprised it came with a very recent FF version (V128) which updated fine.

Previously a used a pet of an older update-able firefox and had it updated all the way to V128.03.
But it was causing some navigation issues on a few important to me web sites.
No such issues with the portable.

[wanderer]

hi mikewalsh and fredx181

just put your firefox portable into slax debian12

and it works fine

thank you so much

fantastic work

wanderer

[TC-21-32]

I found the mediafire files (the two browsers I used were too old to get into Mega.nz), tried a small pile of the "portables" with no joy.
Live CD Xenial 7.5 with an ASUS M4A87TD legacy Motherboard.
THEN I checked the Firefox files and tried the 32 bit tarball and it starts faster every time I touch LAUNCH! Holy cow!
Works perfectly! THANK YOU very much sir!

Next I'll plop it into an ntfs or fat32 file and see if it works from there also. Sitting in a new ext3 file right now. Took awhile for this old GUI user to remember how to do that.
This keyboard is for writing technical info elsewhere.
Puppy'ers know to keep trying! We'll find the combination.

p.s. If too bright, can't see the tabs? Click settings, go into extensions and themes, enable dark mode and the tabs pop! Cake.

[vtpup]

Heh, Mike, a new Catch 22..

I wanted to try installing Firefox on my wife's laptop, because I tried to download your LibreOffice portable on her Tahr64 system, and Google blocked Seamonkey (yes, latest) from accessing the site. Google obviously owns MegaNZ and seems to be using alternative browser blocking as it's latest tactic towards web monopolization. Breaking the entire original concept of html, a universal computer language for communication.

So caving in for a workaround to get your LibreOffice portable, I came to this thread for a download of Firefox portable, so that I could then reach MegaNZ without being blocked.

But of course the Firefox portable is hosted on MegaNZ.

What was I thinking.......!

[mikewalsh]

@vtpup :-

Sorry to be a while getting back to you, Steve; didn't see this until today....

TBH, since you're only thinking of Firefox as a "means to an end", why don't you just download LibreOffice-portable direct? I've had a copy of it up at MediaFire since January (I seem to recall somebody else wanted it, and was having "issues" with MediFire, too), so you can snag it from here:-

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/un7het ... ibreOffice

I've checked, and Seamonkey can download this with no complaints from MediaFire. Do be aware that this is NOT the latest all-singing, all-dancing build; it IS a 7-series, albeit a very early 7-series - 7.0.3.1, to be exact. It is, however, rock-solid, and will do everything you want from it.......it's one of the very last builds from before the LO team decided their office suite would henceforth use Java for the database stuff (God knows why!) I've been using this for quite some time; it's never given me any problems.

Let me know if that link works for you. It should. Having shelled out for a basic Google Drive subscription - £1.60 a month for 100GB extra - I shall slowly be migrating everything back there over time.....but I'll be keeping the MediaFire a/c for awkward cases like this, since I've yet to find a browser it won't "play nice" with!

EDIT:- Never noticed it before; in SeaMonkey, the Drive is completely unresponsive, isn't it? Huh... Not everybody has as many browsers to play with as I do, I know, but I believe most folks have at least one or two alternatives. I know every browser should be able to do exactly the same things, but remember; some developers make the conscious choice NOT to support certain parts of the 'standard' web protocols. That's their decision, and we have to respect that, of course...

(*shrug...*)

Mike.

[vtpup]

Thanks Mike, I'll download the Mediafire one. The Catch 22 of course was that in order to comply with Google's idiocy about downloading only with a "Google Approved" browser, Firefox portable was also hosted there. Double block.

Btw Mike, why not host your portable Puppy stuff on Ibiblio.com -- it's free, semi-official for Puppy stuff, and is browser agnostic? Hell you can ftp from there without even a browser at all.

That's where I get most puppy related OSs, sfs. and .pets.

re "...but remember; some developers make the conscious choice NOT to support certain parts of the 'standard' web protocols. That's their decision, and we have to respect that, of course..."

Well, Mike it's one thing to create special non-standard web functions which don't work in every browser, and another to intentionally block browsers wholesale for the simplest of usage cases, such as access to a public file. The clear intent is to defeat competition in the browser wars, and own the web eventually.

Funny, Google seems to not block Seamonkey and other browsers from YouTube access, and that's far more complex data transfer than simple file downloading. Gee, I wonder why. --- oh yeah, advertising dollars.