Portable Google Chrome for Puppy

[shinobar]

cf. mikewalsh distributing Google-Chrome 'portable' 64-bit browser - (with updater!) in anopther thred.

Now auto-download capability thanks to mikewalsh and fredx181!
LATEST: google-chrome-portable v0.9.6 (2024-09-04)
http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/opt ... 9.6.tar.gz

The Portable Google Chrome for Puppy holds the Google Chrome as a sfs, its settings in a ext3 image file, google-chrome-config.3fs, so that the file system free. It loads the the Google Chrome sfs and the google-chrome-config.3fs to launch the Google Chrome as if launching a miniature Puppy.

The Portable Google Chrome also holds the cache and downloads in the same 'google-chrome-portable' folder, so that they are free from the 'Puppy space' and not limited by the pupsave size.
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Change Log:
#2013-12-16 shinobar
#2013-12-21 v0.2: chrome in sfs, Cache and Downloads here, config in $HOME
#2013-12-28 v0.3: run chrome with HOME=$APPDIR, ROX app
#2013-12-30 v0.4: make portable with user-data-dir here
#2014-01-28 v0.5: import bookmarks, Downloads folder, Cache folder, help file NLS
#2014-03-12 v0.6: fix was failed to show missings, import old portable bookmarks, allow over network
#2014-06-27 v0.7: chrome.default, cleaning up cache dir, local lib
#2021-05-27 v0.8: user data size 300MB. no sandbox option, disk cache, media cache
#2024-08-09 v0.9: keep SFS mounted, cache on ramdisk
#2024-08-23 v0.9.5: unmount sfs, 300MB for data_file, data_file folder for linux partitions, auto download(mikewalsh, fredx181)
#2024-09-04 v0.9.6: IME on bionicpup, no start page, Downloads link, old datafile detection, gtk2dialog
Download: http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/opt/pup64/
Old forum https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=91689

[shinobar]

New! google-chrome-portable v0.9
Chache on RAM disk (if available).

http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/opt ... 0.9.tar.gz

[mikewalsh]

@shinobar :-

Hm. Interesting concept. I guess this is borrowing some of the ideas from the original portable WINE, yes?

Does this keep itself up-to-date.......and if so, how do you get around the problem that SFSs are read-only, and have to be un-packed/modified/re-built to end up with a newer version?

Just curious!

Mike.

[shinobar]

I guess this is borrowing some of the ideas from the original portable WINE, yes?

Thank you Mike!
As for the idea, my answer is yes and no. The portable wine(Jan. 2014) borrows the idea of this Portable Google Chrome(Dec. 2013).

Updating Chrome version, the Portable Google Chrome makes new version of SFS converting from .deb, and then replace the SFS from the older.
As for updating Chrome, maybe next version of this Portable Google Chrome borrows your technology .

[mikewalsh]

@shinobar :-

I guess this is borrowing some of the ideas from the original portable WINE, yes?

Thank you Mike!
As for the idea, answer is yes and no. The portable wine(Jan. 2014) borrows the idae of this Portable Google Chrome(Dec. 2013).

Uh-huh. Was that the one HoerMirAuf put together?

Updating Chrome version, the Portable Google Chrome makes new version of SFS converting from .deb, and then replace the SFS from the older.
As for updating Chrome, maybe next version of this Portable Google Chrome borrows your technology .

Well of course, you're very welcome to 'borrow' anything you like, mate. I've never had any fault to find with anything you've published; it's always been carefully thought-out and exquisitely executed. Frankly, I've always been a bit envious of your scripting skills; my own 'take' on your 'portable-WINE', using the WINE AppImages, is but a pale imitation....

Mike.

[shinobar]

UPDATE: google-chrome-portable v0.9.5
DOWNLOAD: http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/opt ... 9.5.tar.gz
#2024-08-23 v0.9.5: unmount sfs, 300MB for data_file, data_file folder for linux partitions, auto download(mikewalsh, fredx181)

[shinobar]

UPDATE: google-chrome-portable v0.9.6
DOWNLOAD: http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/opt ... 9.6.tar.gz
#2024-08-23 v0.9.5: unmount sfs, 300MB for data_file, data_file folder for linux partitions, auto download(mikewalsh, fredx181)
#2024-09-04 v0.9.6: IME on bionicpup, no start page, Downloads link, old datafile detection, gtk2dialog