I found this article . I thought you might also find it useful:
For people who love to carry software on a USB drive, here’s something you have been waiting for.
Carsten has created a portable version of Google Chrome that has all the features available in the the main browser but requires no installation - just unzip all the files and start Chroming.
This portable Google browser can run directly from the USB stick on any Windows computer and all user settings including web history, cookies, etc. will also get saved to the same folder on the stick.
To download, go to Carsten’s site (English). Portable Chrome is tested on Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1 machines.
I think this can become a very useful thing, especially when the Linux Chrome arrive in the market.
With such, we can practically burn both the (Linux) Operating System and the "future Linux Chrome Browser" into our thumb-drive, hence each time we need to browse information or access our web application and our own computer is not around, we simply just need to:
- find the nearest computer that we can find,
- attach our thumb-drive to that nearest computer,
- boot the computer using our thumb-drive Operating Sytem (Linux)
- start browsing using (Linux) Chrome browser that resides that same exact thumb-drive!
Such would become a very convenient and portable computing solution ever. One day this approach perhaps could become more convenient, and more portable than what Netbook computer today can offer.
Happy thumb-driving. Windows version only for now :-)
wow...thanks for the info!
deb
Posted by: debby | September 07, 2008 at 11:29 AM