I am on the road this week, living in a hotel south of Dallas. I was asked to join a group of leaders in a specific division of our company at their semi-annual planning meeting because I am their dedicated IT development person. It’s been enlightening to say the least and I have met many people that I have talked to on the phone and I have a broader perspective of this application I am supposed to support.
Recently, I came across Portable Firefox and that seems like a good idea when I’m doing my personal surfing on a company laptop in my hotel room. It’s not that I’m going anywhere I shouldn’t, it’s just me checking Gmail, RSS feeds, writing a post etc. Basically, nothing work related and nothing that is any of my employer’s business.
According to the Portable Firefox site:
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go.
It runs entirely on your jump drive, leaving no history or cookies on the computer. It’s a great concept and something I’m glad to carry around in my pocket so I can jump on the internet anywhere I am, in my familiar browser environment. It seems slow, but my wifi connection is very slow in the hotel, so that may be the issue, not Portable Firefox. Assuming it’s not inherently slow, I like it.
Give it try.
I used Portable Firefox for a while at work and loved it.
I, too, use portable firefox on my work computer. Since it’s my work laptop, I don’t really want to leave traces of any personal web surfing. I don’t notice any speed differences between portable and standard at all, but I’m running it off my HD instead of a USB stick. As a defense-in-depth, my portable ff is running on a true-crypt partition…