{"id":177,"date":"2004-07-19T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/CoolStuff\/takeitwith.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"takeitwith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2004\/07\/19\/takeitwith\/","title":{"rendered":"You CAN take it with you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;at least in the case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\">Mozilla Firebird<\/a>.  David Tenser&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/texturizer.net\/firefox\/\">Firefox Help<\/a> has a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/texturizer.net\/firefox\/tips.html#oth_usb\">simple instructions<\/a> for setting up Firefox for Windows to run from a USB memory stick or other removable media device, including a copy of your profile.  Now you can run Firefox (with all of your bookmarks, plugins, skins, and settings) from any Windows PC with a USB port, in moments.  Groovy.<\/p>\n<p>While my primary personal machine is my Mac Powerbook, I do use a Win2K machine all day at work, and I have Firefox customized for my use.  I&#8217;d bet that creating a similar portable setup for OS X or Linux would be just as easy, however, carrying a Win install around on my 64 Meg USB thumb drive is probably the best for flexibility.  For example, the internet cafe I used in St. Andrews, New Brunswick recently while on vacation had PCs, not Macs.  Wish I&#8217;d had Firefox on my thumbdrive then.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;at least in the case of Mozilla Firebird. David Tenser&#8217;s Firefox Help has a set of simple instructions for setting up Firefox for Windows to run from a USB memory stick or other removable media device, including a copy of your profile. Now you can run Firefox (with all of your bookmarks, plugins, skins, and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coolstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}