Friday, October 23, 2009

Portable Google Chrome

PortableApps.com started to offer a portable version of Google Chrome for Windows. Due to the licensing terms of Google Chrome, the site offers a small application that downloads Google Chrome's installer, extract its files and installs a portable launcher. Copy the resulting folder to a USB drive and you can launch Chrome on multiple computers without leaving traces.


A much better idea would be to run Chrome using "roaming" profiles and save your settings and data online. Hopefully, Google Browser Sync will return in Google Chrome. There's already an experimental feature that synchronizes bookmarks with a Google account.

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Portable Google Chrome by Alex Chitu
  8 comments ( Post a comment )
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Anonymous Drazick said on October 23, 2009 8:09 AM PDT:
Does it really leave no registry keys?
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Blogger LuizH said on October 23, 2009 9:09 AM PDT:
Mac version? When?
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Blogger Schultzter said on October 23, 2009 10:27 AM PDT:
I'm not so much interested in synchronizing my bookmarks with Google (or anyone else), I'd rather my Bookmarks menu access them directly (like GMarks for Firefox).
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Blogger pkasting said on October 23, 2009 11:49 AM PDT:
We purposefully don't use roaming profiles because we can save an extraordinarily large amount of data in the profile. This is also tricky for sync.
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Blogger kurt wismer said on October 23, 2009 1:43 PM PDT:
licensing prevents them from doing a normal portable app distribution?

guess i'm glad i use portable iron instead of chrome.
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Blogger Si Fahry said on October 24, 2009 2:15 AM PDT:
where the cookies stored?
on computer or UFD?
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Anonymous Jen Colon said on October 25, 2009 9:07 PM PDT:
I think the cookies will be stored on the computer
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Anonymous Anonymous said on November 8, 2009 5:13 PM PDT:
@kurt I don't really know much about licensing, but IMO the real reason they created an installer to handle the installation process is because they are planning to do more than just install chrome in the future. I don't think it's a simple matter of Google saying "users are of your site are too stupid to install this thing on their own, they need your help" :-)
What do you think?
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