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Foxfire and Thunderbird Portable Editions

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Perhaps this is old news to some of you, but just today I ran across Foxfire Portable Edition, which one may load onto a portable device, such as a hard drive, cd, or USB device. The same for Thunderbird, the Mozilla email client I use. The portable edition will enable me to avoid using web mail, which I pretty much detest. The other benefit of the portable programs is that all of one’s personal information is contained on the portable device one uses so none remains with an internet cafe computer.

I have loaded both programs onto a portable hard drive which I can take with me while traveling, plug into a computer at an internet cafe, and be able to use Firefox (most cafes I think use Microsoft IE) and have all of my bookmarks. Speaking of bookmarks, if you’re using Firefox and haven’t yet come across Foxmarks, it is a nifty add-on which enables one to synchronize ones bookmarks amongst the various computers one might use.

I have synchronized my bookmarks to the Firefox Portable Edition and configured Thunderbird Portable on my portable hard drive. So I’m ready for the road, which I will be hitting Thursday when I leave for a month at the homes of friends in Pons, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. I will be pretty much out of touch for the month, as the nearest internet cafe is twenty minutes from Pons in Vinales and which I don’t expect to visit more than once a week or so.

The programs and lots of portable programs, including Open Office, may be found at PortableApps.com.

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