November 2, 2005
Comfortable browsing anywhere
Today when I was waiting for my next class to begin, I decided I was sick of having to put up with Portable Firefox as my portable USB flash drive browser. So, I decided to investigate the placement of Opera on a USB drive, and found this nice tutorial on how to do it. It’s a little outdated (being for Opera 7, apparently), and there’s a lot of editing to do, but it works nicely and is totally worth the hassle.
Now I have an Opera configured to be independent of drive letters and to not write cache to the disk, so I can enjoy the best possible Internet experience anywhere there’s a USB port! On top of that, it uses over 2 MB less disk space than Portable Firefox, which doesn’t even have mouse gestures, page fitting, ident spoofing, notes, or a plethora of other usability features I’ve come to love. This, combined with Miranda IM, really has me set for using public computers in comfort.
