Firefox drive!!!!!

Posted by Arnab Datta on Sat, 08/12/2006 - 05:37SFX.com-related Forum

I wanna have a Firefox Drive. It will be created at installing of FF. In that drive there should be a collection of many Internet software i.e. IM, many other plug in from Google, Mozilla. When we will fire up FF the all programme should running. How about the idea?


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Submitted by LouCypher on Tue, 09/05/2006 - 00:05.

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Make it portable! Should be EASY!
Submitted by zgambino on Mon, 09/04/2006 - 17:51.

You can make one very easily and have it portable.

The new USB drives that are coming with U3, allow you to install Firefox, Thunderbird, Skype and lots of other programs on your USB drive and you can take them wherever you go! I have a SanDisk 2GB Cruzer with my Firefox, Thunderbird, Skype and FileZilla on it.

It works great!

Check out more info here


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Submitted by ALIENDUDE5300 on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 17:14.

Huh? What do You Mean?

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great idea
Submitted by josephsmith on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 15:02.

Hi Arnab,
"Firefox Drive" is a good idea.
I second that.

However, it will probably not be a good idea to put all the plugins and other programs into the first download. People are impressed by smaller downloads more than anything else. Programmers are good at downloading, but not layman users. So I suggest that teh basic download be the same and then it could be followed by a link to "Firefox Pack" or "Firefox Drive" which will be a download of all the programs you are asking for. Also, that should go on another page, at least, on another section of the page. Finally, to get your "Drive" idea working, the basic installer should have a question in the install sequence asking the user whether he wants to create a separate "Firefox Drive". It should check if there is enough disk space and partitioning is possible. Then, it should make a partition and install stuff there.
Practically, most programs install to /Program Files/ on Windows, so that defeats the purpose.

However, one very good idea that comes to mind is to have an option to ask Firefox to store _ALL_ pages viewed while surfing the web, classified by site, in a directory tree (just like offline browsers do) sorted properly into folders and subfolders(for subdomains). Then, THAT makes sense as a "Firefox Drive". It will be a permanent cache, which will then be searchable by your OS text-search and by any of the Desktop Search programs.

Of course, we should *NOT* include offline-browser capabilities into Firefox, lest it become unpopular with webmasters.

The dev team should probably think a little about this "everything cached, nothing lost" storage of viewed pages.

Joseph.

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Huh?
Submitted by N1ghtshade on Sat, 08/12/2006 - 19:08.

Like a drive partition on my disk? minus all the confusingness, sounds like a basically good idea...except I don't want all the programs to start running when I open Ffx. That could get annoying if I'm nit using it that day

 

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i dint understand nything
Submitted by mohammed hassan on Sat, 08/12/2006 - 18:22.

i dint understand nything

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Firefox
Submitted by bodoro on Sat, 08/12/2006 - 17:36.

in google you find many help! :-)

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