Ever want to take your FireFox with you, along with your favourites and saved passwords?
The first thing you need to get a portable application on a computer is a flash drive, or some other way of getting to your executable file while you are at the public computer.
Ever need or want an application on a computer but you do not have local admin rights to the computer?
Ever wanted to browse the Internet from a public computer, on a browser you consider to be your own, and don't have to worry about tracking cookies registering on that public computer with your information?
There are a few ways to accomplish these sorts of things. But the most easy and most accepted way to do it is with portable apps.
I want to start off by saying, if you do not have local administrative access to a computer, you probably should not be running applications that are not installed on that device, abide by all rules and laws regulating the device you are using.
The first thing you need to get a portable application on a computer is a flash drive, or some other way of getting to your executable file while you are at the public computer.
To install the portable application on the flash drive (jump drive), is to download the portable application. I like to use the website titled "Portable Apps" for getting my portable applications.
Once the portable application is downloaded locally to your computer, than install the application to your flash drive (jump drive). In windows this means while you are installing the software rather than selecting "c:" to install the portable application software you will want to install it to whatever the drive letter is for your flash drive (jump drive).
One your portable application is installed on your flash drive you are ready to take your application with you, to run the application simply open up the file explorer (my computer) and navigate to your flash drive and run the .exe file for your portable app.
This means that while you are at the public computer you will need to be able to get to the usb drive.
Here is a list of my fave portable applications...
Check it out if you are on the go between the library and school and home and wherever else with no laptop. These applications used in conjunction with a flash drive can make you feel like you have your laptop with you even if you don't have one.
Post Script:
If you really want to go anonymous with these applications.
Try setting up a squid server at your home, you could then essentially configure your portable FireFox browser to use encrypted proxy through your squid server and the people running the network where you are using your portable apps on the go will have no real idea what you are doing.
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