Universal Firefox on a USB Key

Project Description

Create a portable USB installation of Firefox that will work on all of Windows, Linux, and Mac. Currently there are binaries for doing this with Windows/Linux. You'll need to get binaries for the app on each platform, figure out how to share a common profile, and get it all on a single USB key.

Resources: sxip/dick, http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Chrome_Registration#platform_.28Platform-specific_packages.29, http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Bundles#Platform-specific_Subdirectories, http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/crashme.xpi

Project Leader(s)

• Peter Evanoff
• Peter Chan

Project Details

Useful Development Links

http://pastebin.mozilla.org/ - a way to collaborate on debugging code snippets, put code of compile results in the box, post it, then share the link for others on IRC to see.

WTF is that? List
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Breakpad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPInstall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(layout_engine)

Project News

Jan 31, 2008: Chris introduced us to Dick Hardt - Founder & CEO of Sxip