If I have the Rockstar Games launcher running, I will receive an error when I try to launch Opera Portable, saying that it is already running. If I close the Rockstar Launcher, I can then open Opera Portable. If I open Opera first, I can then open the Rockstar Launcher without any conflicts after that as long as I don't close and reopen Opera.
Does this mean the Rockstar Launcher is built upon Opera Portable? Or maybe just regular Opera? It's kinda weird, whatever the cause!
Cheers!
I have a bunch of portableapps that I store on a network path so that I don't have to install the same program over on each computer. Most of the programs work fine when accessed via UNC path (\\server\path) but for some reason KVIrc freaks out, tries to load some config from c: and when it can't it is completely unusable. I have to map a network drive and then start KVIrc from the network drive (i.e. x:\portableapps\KVircPortable\kvircportable.exe), at which point it functions perfectly fine.
Why is this, and what can be done to fix it?
Getting repeat triggers in Malwarebytes of qBittorrent generating outbound connections from the exe file.
Researching, I see that qTorrent has a bit of history for this.
Anyone able to confirm?
The recent update to portable Opera and it decided to FK up my profile. FU Chedder Gobblin!
Now the browser profile has been reset to factory settings after I closed out.
I got a POP-UP message yesterday that a duplicate profile was detected when I tried to Run Opera.
Some how my profile data got moved to R:\PortableApps\PortableApps\OperaPortable\App\DefaultData\profile
So copied the data over to where it should be.
My mistake was not duplicating both folders.
So I moved the data.
I was able to close and reopen Opera about 3 times before it decided to puke cheddar macaroni all over my data.
FU cheddar gobblin!
PROOF THAT IT WORKS:
https://i.imgur.com/j9IKT62.gifv
NOTES:
01.) I didn't want to use 'PortableApps.com' to pin my 'Firefox Portable' browser for various reasons, one being that it did not work for me. Scroll down to the very bottom for more information.
02.) The following method will also work with all other portable browsers and portable apps.
03.) For my instructions, I will be using 'Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition' as an example.
CREDITS:
RaMMicHaeL, the developer of '7+ Taskbar Tweaker'. He is the one who told me about the 'Win7AppID' tool, and it is his '7+ Taskbar Tweaker' program that I used to get my portable app's AppID.
STEP #01 - DOWNLOAD A PROGRAM THAT WILL TELL YOU YOUR PORTABLE APP'S APPID.
01.) https://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker
02.) Download and install the latest version of '7+ Taskbar Tweaker'.
03.) Open up 'Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition'.
04.) Run '7+ Taskbar Tweaker'.
05.) Click on the '7+ Taskbar Tweaker' icon that is in your System Tray.
06.) On the bottom right corner of the '7+ Taskbar Tweaker' window, click the 'Taskbar Inspector' button.
07.) Screenshot the popup 'Taskbar Inspector' window. You will need to screenshot it because the window disappears once you click outside of the window.
08.) Open up the screenshot that you just took. Look for the website that you have open in 'Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition'. One line above that is the AppID for 'Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition'. Write it down. My AppID number was 2B22C18D2D4725BA. Your AppID will be different than mine, even if you are using the same portable browser.
STEP #02 - DOWNLOAD A DUMMY EXE. WE WILL ONLY BE USING THIS TEMPORARILY.
01.) https://sourceforge.net/projects/exeresource/files/latest/download
NOTE: We are using this particular dummy exe for several reasons. If you were to use a program that is already on your computer like 'Microsoft Edge' and you changed the shortcut's target path and icon, it will be very hard to change them back later. If you were to use let's say another portable app's .exe, you won't be able to pin the .exe's shortcut to the taskbar because it as a portable app. This dummy exe that we will be using is very small in size, we won't ever need to run it, and even if we did run it by accident it will do nothing. It is a portable .exe so there won't be additional files or folders anywhere else. And will be deleting it when we are done.
02.) Download 'Simple EXE Resource'. It will actually save as a 'existential.zip' folder. It doesn't matter where you save it, as long as you remember the location.
03.) Extract the 'existential.zip' folder. The folder's name will be 'existential'.
04.) Rename the 'existential' folder to 'Firefox Portable (new)'.
05.) Delete the 'existential.bas' and 'WTFPLv3.txt' files inside the folder. We only need 'existential.exe'.
06.) Right click the 'existential.exe' file and select 'Create Shortcut'. You want the shortcut to be in the same folder, not on the Desktop.
07.) Rename the shortcut that you just created to '01'.
STEP #03 - DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM THAT YOU WILL NEED TO CHANGE A SHORTCUT'S APPID.
01.) https://code.google.com/archive/p/win7appid/downloads
02.) Download the Jan 27, 2010 program called 'Win7AppID.exe'
03.) Move this 'Win7AppID.exe' into the 'Firefox Portable (new)' folder.
STEP #04 - CREATE A NEW SHORTCUT WITH THE DESIRED APPID AND TARGET PATH.
01.) Pin the '01.lnk' that is inside the 'Firefox Portable (new)' folder to the Taskbar. IMPORTANT: You must pin it to the Taskbar first before doing anything else like changing the target path. And don't bother running it. We will only run it once we have changed the AppID and target path.
02.) Open up the 'Firefox Portable (new)' folder, and click inside the rectangle box at the top of the File Explorer window. This will highlight everything. Type 'cmd' without the single quotation marks, and press the Enter key. This will create a Command Prompt window for your 'Firefox Portable (new)' folder.
03.) Inside the Command Prompt window, type the following and press Enter:Win7AppId 01.lnk 2B22C18D2D4725BA
NOTE: 2B22C18D2D4725BA is the AppID of my 'Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition' app. Your AppID will be different, so use the AppID that you obtained in Step #01.
04.) Go to the folder where you have 'Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition' installed. Right click the 'FirefoxPortable.exe' and select 'Create Shortcut'.
05.) Right click the shortcut that you just created and select 'Cut'.
06.) Go back to the 'Firefox Portable (new)' folder and paste the 'FirefoxPortable.lnk' shortcut in it.
07.) Right click the '01.lnk' shortcut and select 'Properties'. Right click the 'FirefoxPortable.lnk' shortcut and select 'Properties'.
08.) Now replace the 'Target:' path in '01.lnk' with the 'Target:' path that is in 'FirefoxPortable.lnk'. And do the same for 'Start in:'. Click 'Apply' to save the changes.
09.) The '01.lnk' that you have pinned to the Taskbar should now open up 'Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition' exactly where your pinned icon is, and it should no longer create duplicate icons. We will soon be renaming the pinned '01.lnk' to a better name in the next step.
STEP #05 - DELETE EVERYTHING THAT YOU DOWNLOADED, RENAME THE PINNED SHORTCUT, AND MAKE A BACKUP OF THE PINNED SHORTCUT.
01.) Go ahead and delete everything that you have downloaded so far. You can delete 'existential.zip', the 'existential' folder that we renamed to 'Firefox Portable (new)', and the 'Win7AppID.exe'. If there was anything else that we downloaded or created, go ahead and delete it. So basically your system will be exactly as it was before.
02.) Go to "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar". This will have all the shortcuts to the programs that you currently have pinned to the Taskbar.
03.) Locate '01' and rename it to something better. I renamed mine 'Firefox Portable'.
04.) Right click the 'Firefox Portable.lnk" inside the aforementioned "...\User Pinned\TaskBar" folder and select 'Copy'. Then 'Paste' a copy of it in a different, secure location. Why? If you accidently click 'Unpin from Taskbar' one day, this shortcut that you spent so much time creating will have completely and permanently disappeared. Then what? If you have a backup of it, you just put a copy of it back in the "...\User Pinned\TaskBar" folder, which will save you a lot of time and headache.
WHY I DIDN'T USE PORTABLEAPPS.COM?
Someone suggested that I use 'PortableApps.com' to pin portable apps to the Taskbar. I had already tried that with 'Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition' and it did not work. I installed the latest version of 'PortableApps.com'. Then I installed a new copy of 'Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition' using 'PortableApps.com'. Then inside the 'PortableApps.com' program window, I right clicked the 'Firefox Portable' entry and selected 'Pin to Taskbar'. 'PortableApps.com' then opened up a new File Explorer window with a 'Firefox Portable' shortcut in it, and it instructed me to drag this shortcut to the Taskbar to pin it. It would not let me pin it to the Taskbar -> there was a red circle with a diagonal line across it. Furthermore, I don't want to have or use 'PortableApps.com'. I like having my "Firefox Portable' in a parent folder instead of a child folder of some other program, and I don't need 'PortableApps.com' for anything else as 'Firefox Portable' is the only app that I use and it auto updates itself. So 'PortableApps.com' just takes up USB drive space and makes things more complicated, and it didn't even work for me. Some people might be happy using the 'PortableApps.com' method. I am not one of those people. So I had to come up with a different method, and many thanks to RaMMicHaeL for helping me find that working method.
Hi,
With gPodder, you can use an online service to synchronize your feed list on several devices: https://gpodder.net/
In the preferences you just have to fill in your login and password.
This service does not work with the version of Papps: we get an error message.
But gPodder is natively portable. I have just done the test with 2 virgin versions and it's the Papps portability that seems to be the problem...
Do you think it's fixable?
How can I install Google Chrome latest version if I put both files in the same folder?
GoogleChromePortable64_87.0.4280.88_online.paf.exe
ChromeStandaloneSetup64.exe
The recent update to portable Opera and it decided to FK up my profile. FU Chedder Gobblin!
Now the browser profile has been reset to factory settings after I closed out.
I got a POP-UP message yesterday that a duplicate profile was detected when I tried to Run Opera.
Some how my profile data got moved to R:\PortableApps\PortableApps\OperaPortable\App\DefaultData\profile
So copied the data over to where it should be.
My mistake was not duplicating both folders.
So I moved the data.
I was able to close and reopen Opera about 3 times before it decided to puke cheddar macaroni all over my data.
FU cheddar gobblin!
I just installed Portable Apps Launcher Today. I am new to the app.
It seems like all the apps I have installed work except for Opera and Opera GX.
Everytime I try to launch the app I get An Instance is already running.
I have searched the forums and google and saw things about deleting .ini file etc but none of those exist that I am finding.
I am running Windows 10 v1909.
I would really like to start using OperaGX. Any advice? If I go to the App directory and scroll through and find launcher.exe that will work. but when it tried to run operagxportable.exe I get an error.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
1.) I did some research online and I saw that at one time you could go to "about:flags" and then set "Compact Navigation" to true. But it was an experimental feature and Google Chrome got rid of it, so that is a no go.
2.) Another method is to use the Fullscreen presentation (F11) but I don't want to use Google Chrome in fullscreen. And I also don't want to download "shortcuts" and open up my website in some app mode. This was a thing a long time ago, but I never used it. I just want to use the browser as-is, but with the Navigation Bar hidden.
Basically there is a webcam model website that I like to visit. When I click on a models webcam, it opens up in a new window. I sometimes have the new window(s) sized at 1100x894, but most of the time I have all the model webcam windows sized at 250x212. With the URL address bar visible, it looks ugly and also hides a lot of video screen content.
The simple fix was to use a browser like Firefox and then make changes to the userChrome.css file to remove the Navigation Bar. At first, I used Waterfox Portable to do that. But Waterfox Portable is a vastly inferior browser compared to Firefox Portable. If I had just one webcam open, it would freeze infrequently, nothing to be too upset about. But if I had two webcams open, it would freeze a lot more. And I could forget about having my own webcam open. But in Firefox Portable, I could open up dozens of webcams and run my webcam at the same time, no problem. I wish that Google Chrome also had a userChrome.css file, but as far as I know they don't have anything like that.
So then I got rid of Waterfox Portable, and decided to continue using Firefox Portable as my main browser (with Navigation Bar visible) and then install Firefox (full install) and have the Navigation Bar hidden on that one and jut use the Firefox (full install) to view the webcams. This works on one of my laptops. But on my other laptop, I can't even pin Firefox Portable to the Taskbar unless it is installed on my C: drive. If I install it on my G: drive, which is my USB Flash Drive, it won't let me pin Firefox Portable to the Taskbar. Which is a real headache. But not only that, I think that it would be nice if I used two different browsers. Firefox Portable as my main browser, and some other equally fast and speedy browser for the webcam website (with Navigation Bar hidden). Google Chrome seems as good as any, and is even available as a portable browser. Plus I am familiar with it. I just don't know how to completely get rid of the Navigation Bar in it. I am really hoping that it is possible and that someone out there knows of a way, that doesn't involve creating app shortcuts, using Fullscreen Presentation, or using some about:flags settings that don't exist anymore.
Good afternoon! Have a trouble with chrome portable on my macbook pro m1. Trying to run it through parallels on win10. App opens, but don't run any page. Any suggestions how to fix this? Firefox portable doesn't run at all.
Hi,
using gPodder Portable v3.10.17 on Win7-64 and the extension section is empty and in the config file the line that says "extensions.enabled" has no check box or anything
were these disabled?
i dont see anything mentioned in the gPodder GitHub Issues section fwiw and v3.10.17 was released back in November
Dear Portable Apps,
Please help with the following – the gist of it, my question is in bold.
Scenario:
Attached USB SSD, using Chrome from it. There are many open tabs. While the browser resides on the USB SSD, I assume all open tabs are in the RAM, and if I use an extension to highlight specific words on the pages, then those highlights are also in the RAM.
So, I assume that when I detach the USB SSD, then all tab data and all extension data are gone, i.e. I can’t preserve the rendering of tabs/pages and extension highlighting with the portable Chrome on the USB SSD.
Am I right with my interpretation? I assume that (just like with an installed Chrome on a built-in drive) I can utilize an extension to save tab data (e.g. Tabs Outliner or Session Buddy), but when attaching my USB SSD to another computer, then all tabs are needed to be loaded from scratch. The same as if I were to close all tabs on an installed Chrome, then opening all tabs again from Session Buddy.
I.e. it is not possible to retain the displayed page data for all the open tabs in portable Chrome on the USB SSD in order to display them the same way on another PC – so actually porting Chrome’s RAM content (loaded pages with some word highlighting by an extension) to another PC.
Is my interpretation correct?
Is it possible to continue a browsing session on another computer without the need to reload all the tabs’ content? Is there any way of achieving this?
Thanks,
Best,
Arpad
Hi,
Recently downloaded the Google Chrome Portable and Installed some extensions like AdBlock etc.
When I used the Portable USB to different PC, the extensions do not follow. Is there any workaround for this?
On my PC (running Windows 10 ver. 10.0.17763.107) I have many different installation on Firefox Portable (versions a little below the last one).
Each is aimed to a different activity and has different addons (not many, anyway).
Until yesteday, at late night, I have been working with most of them and they were perfectly working. This morning I'm experiencing precedentely unseen troubles on all of them:
- Firefox takes a long time to start
- It's irresponsive. When I type an url in the address bar and press enter nothing happens.
- Can't reach about:config neither
- When I try to start Firefox often I get a message "Another instance of Firefox is already running." despite the absence of entries in the Task Manager
- taskkill /T /F /FI "Imagename eq Firefox*" doesn't help that much.
- Brand new installation of Firefox Portable 86.0 has been operating accurately for a short while but now is malfunctioning.
It's really a trouble to me. I will be very grateful for any hints about diagnostic and recovery.
- Works fine: IronPortable 87.0.4450.0
- Works fine: MaxthonPortable 4.9.5.1000
- Works fine: Opera ver. 73.0.3856.344
- Works fine: OperaPortable 74.0.3911.160
Hi!
Is it possible to use a HTML-file located on the same USB stick as Chrome Portable, as a homepage or bookmark?
The drive letter of the USB can of course change from PC to PC, so is it possible?
Thanks in advance!
I got 2 computers both of them windows 10, i installed same chrome V84 portable to both of them and one of them is getting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE values like AllowOutdatedPlugins and PluginsAllowedForUrls from regedit but other one is not. I seriously cant understand why, i need that second machine to read those too. Can anyone help?
The initial release of Google Chrome Dev 91.0.4455.2 has an installer that was accidentally signed with the wrong key. It was re-posted with the correct one soon after. The original post has an MD5 of a3100301b5517bdd304ab09f87b5624e and an SHA256 of d7ebb9f1cc08e74bb7c651a1ddb0face512ad5e71736be5ef40ced5bddf1ec6b. Other than the installer signature, both packages are identical, including the correct signature on the GoogleChromePortable.exe launcher. If you were automatically update to either the original package or the updated one via the PA.c Platform, you're fine.
Hi all,
Sorry for my bad Language, because english is Not my first. I did not find anything regarding my question, so i just ask here.
If i wanted to use Google Chrome on a work computer used by other collegues, do they have Access to my User Data (Google Account with password and Link Synchronisation) if some collegues have admin rights within windows? I think Even if i store Chrome Portable in the User Folder, the Admin will have Access to it and all Stored Informationen.
Maybe it is better to install chrome to the System to prevent sich Things?
Thanks
Jenar
