Recently purchased an imation ironkey and have already got the portable firefox browser + adium on it.

The only thing that is missing are portable OpenVPN and proxifier clients…Have been looking for these things for ages now, would be so happy if there was a portable version that I could put on my USB stick.

Anybody know something or willing to create a portable version?

To secure your GPG-keys, you should put the whole newly created Portable Thunderbird Application (with enigmail and GPG inside) in a Truecrypt-Container and afterwards on an usb drive.

Create on the USB drive a file .gnupg/gpg.conf by opening the application Terminal and using the editor vi:

 mkdir /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg vi /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg/gpg.conf verbose # debug-all # uncomment to debug # logger-file /Volumes/USB drive/gnupg.log # uncomment to debug no-default-keyring keyring /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg/pubring.gpg primary-keyring /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg/pubring.gpg secret-keyring /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg/secring.gpg trustdb-name /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg # lock-never # uncomment if you have problems writing on a FAT32 partition, read http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manpage.en.html 

Install on your Mac MacGPG1 https://www.gpgtools.org/macgpg1/index.html
and copy /usr/local/MacGPG1 to your USB drive:

 cp -r /usr/local/MacGPG1 /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/ 

Install the enigmail add-on for your Thunderbird from http://www.enigmail.net and verify that OpenGPG uses the GnuPG from your USB drive. This can be done via the OpenGPG-Gui in Thunderbird with Show Expert Settings enabled or checking the corresponding profile/prefs.js entries:

 user_pref("extensions.enigmail.agentPath", "/Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/MacGPG1/bin/gpg"); 

 user_pref("extensions.enigmail.agentAdditionalParam", "--homedir \"/Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg\""); 

The "Portable Thunderbird.app" package content now looks as follows:
/Portable Thunderbird.app
|-/Contents
|-/Contents/Resources/Thunderbird.app
|-/Contents/Resources/MacGPG1
|-/Contents/Resources/profile

Tips to tune your Thunderbird performance are found at http://portableapps.com/support/thunderbird_portable#performance

@ Zacko There isn't a profiles.ini to edit on OSX but you can open Thunderbird using this terminal command to set a custom profile foder path:

open /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin -profile "custom/profile/path"

Look at the scripts at the end of this page:
http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps:code:thunderbird

you have to open the dmg-file by double-clicking it and then

• Copying "Portable Thunderbird OS X" folder to your portable device.

• Clicking "Portable Thunderbird"will open Thunderbird from your portable device, wait a while before Thunderbird starts.

• You can copy your local Profile folder to Portable Thunderbird when the Copy local Profile window asks you. So, if you wish to use your address, mail, preferences you already have on your system, just click Copy when prompted, and select the folder /Users/<username>/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/xxxyyxx.default/.

• Thunderbird application and profile folder are inside the bundle: Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/. You can open the bundle "Portable Thunderbird.app" by right-clicking it and choose Show Package Contents.

• You can even update Thunderbird to the newest version, either by using the inbuilt update mechanism (not tested) or downloading the current Thunderbird in your language from Mozilla Thunderbird's homepage, mounting the .dmg file and copying Thunderbird.app to Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/Thunderbird.app, thus replacing it.

Situation: I am migrating from windows to OSX. I have a external media (usb) from which I run Windows portable Thunderbird accessing my profile on a truecrypt volume on the same USB. Now I want to do the same in OSX; Portable Thunderbird on USB configured to access Profile from my truecrypt volume on the same USB. With this setup I could access Thunderbird in any windows or OSX machine I plug the USB into.

I am looking for a USB driver for Mac OSX 10.8 for a Hauppauge USB-Live/2 video capture card. Has anyone heard of one or has written one?

Thanks,

Tom Kerrigan

As a suggestion, I think it would be really useful to make a note of it on the Portable Firefox download page.

Thanks, done.

As a suggestion, I think it would be really useful to make a note of it on the Portable Firefox download page.

I'm on OS X 10.6.8.

Where should I copy the com.apple.mail.plist file to?

Maybe FreeSMUG can look into the sparkle update process?

Besides that Chromium 19.0.1084.54 stable is out.

@FreeSMUG Thanks for all your work. The chromium build is very much appreciated! :)

Everything seems to work fine.

However, after launching the app for the second time, and clicking yes to the sparkle update process,
the browser crashed a few times.

How can i check if Sparkle (and the app) is working fine? should i reinstall it?

(ps : My skills are limited)

So Firefox will still remain fully portable even if I update it?

Yes, it will. Just exit and relaunch it (as Portable) at the end of the update.

function run_app {
"$p_userbase/$appid.app/Contents/MacOS/$appid" -user-data-dir="$p_userpref"
}

Just edit the script file inside Portable Chromium.app bundle

 open "/Volumes/NDCS/chrome/chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Portable Chromium" --args --allow-file-access-from-files 

I can't get this switch or others to work at all, although Chrome does launch just fine from this command. I'm on os x 10.7.3 and using portable chromium version 13.0.782.218.

I am urgently needing help on this!! Thanks in advance for any advice.

Or you can use terminal and on each/multiple shell window do:

 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -profile /your/profile/folder/path 

Otherwise you'd need a full license of Fluid.app.

I cannot find a way of replicating this valuable feature in this otherwise perfect solution to our need - has anyone achieved this already and willing to share how please?

LibreOffice doesn't even work at all. It simply syas 'libre office opened sucessfuly' followed by 'libreoffice quit successfuly'. It seems like even with the Lion patch most of the apps are so outdated they either dont work well or run a a crawling pace in Lion.

Immediately on startup it wants to connect to ssl.gstatic.com, www.l.google.com, and others. I've also noticed a bizarre nonsense-domain that Chrome and Chromium both connect to on startup. It seems to change now end then. Just now Chromium tried to connect to the domain "pychhwqfug". At first I thought this was some internal thing, but I tried to ping it and lo and behold, it resolved to an actual IP address (204.232.137.207). What is this, and why does it have such a cryptic name? The name of this domain changes (it's different in Chrome and Chromium right now, and I've noticed Chrome use different ones in the past), but it seems to always resolve to the same IP.

quoted textHey Michio, I assume you're the one asking the same question on MacUpdate? glad you made it over to the forum. :)

yeah, I figured that I'd get a faster reply by going here rather than waiting for one at MU. And I was right!
Your g-mail suggestion is a good one.
I've installed Glimmer Blocker and I've also installed Ghostery for Chrome even though Ghostery doesn't work perfectly there but I should get some protection I imagine.
Anyway, it's not that big of an issue since I don't use Chromium as my regular browser…..I prefer Firefox; it's my default one.
FF has got a wealth of lovely add-ons including some nice ones for added privacy and security.
I like to keep several different browsers on hand.

Imo, you have to differentiate with what set of data you do what. The fact that you need a gmail account to access extensions in the first place is crazy and tells us a lot about how Google works and what they think. They most likely think that humans are some kind of glibberish mass which provides data and Google will happily collect all the data possible to one day take over earth. :P But seriously, you can still create a fake gmail account and log in whenever you need an extension. Then you can log out again, as soon as the extension is installed.

Keep in mind most extensions will have access to your browser history, sometimes even more than that. So you shouldn't just randomly install extensions. I only have very few but I am aware of the fact that this is of course in a way compromising my privacy. We don't wanna talk about Google Chrome - that is much worse!

But the same goes for Firefox if you e.g. use AdBlock or similar add-ons. Only solution: don't use browser extensions at all. GlimmerBlocker (works through a proxy, I think) might be a workaround. I'm myself am too stupid for GlimmerBlocker. I wish they had a user interface which was easier to use.

Hope this helps,
w.

Did you notice you have several user questions on macupdate? Could you consider replying to those since you know the most about your chromium build. I think it would be great to check your distribution sites for questions about your software maybe once in two months and reply. (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36244/chromium)

Great job with the twitter, btw. You are on one of my lists now :). Is it only a bot or can I reach you guys as well if I have a quick question or suggestion?

Thanks for your work!
wilhelm

Thanks

When you quit Chromium only last theme remain in your folder.

If I right click on Thunderbird and choose "show package contents" and go to CONTENTS > RESOURCES > PROFILE > MAIL my email accounts seem to be in there and the folder size is over 700 MB.

Is there anything I can do to get the mail back? Or the account setup information?

Thanks in advance for any help!

UPDATE : Got the email back. Here's how…

• I made a copy of Portable Thunderbird and named it REPAIR.
• I opened up CONTENTS > RESOURCES > PROFILE > MAIL on the REPAIR copy and deleted everything.
• I launched the REPAIR copy and keyed in a valid account. Then I quit the REPAIR app.
• I went to CONTENTS > RESOURCES > PROFILE > MAIL on the original Thunderbird and copied everything into the CONTENTS > RESOURCES > PROFILE > MAIL on the REPAIR copy.
• When I launched the REPAIR app, all the emali was there!

However, none of my account information made it back.

Is there any way to modify the original damaged Portable Thunderbird so I can get my emails and account information back?

Thanks again for any help!

 function run_app { "$p_userbase/Aurora.app/Contents/MacOS/$appbin" -profile "$p_userpref" } 

Instead you could use the last Firefox 6 replacing the Firefox in the app bundle.