I have uploaded to Rapidshare a new updated version :
K-Meleon-18111-forCD .
This is a modified 1.x version, based on Mozilla 1.8.1.11 ,
Gecko date 20071128, from Firefox20011 and Seamonkey1.1.7,
that can be burned to CD, to be used from a CD drive,
or from any other drive.
Nothing will be written on a computer, that you use, where you have no
writing rights, and only reading access is allowed.
Unzip the file and burn it on a CD.
Usable in Windows, but also in Linux with the wine emulator.
No history view and no bookmarks saving possible, because of read only functions.
Javascript button for blocking and allowing javascript.
Reload the page after changing.
The menu is in the button Preferences (right click), and in the shortcut
Alt + X .
To reach an existing bookmarks file on a floppy
or elsewhere, or a start page somewhere on the computer
or the web, enter the path to them in Tools/Hotkeys,
to reach them as a web file using a shortcut
Ctrl + number 1 to 0.
For easy keyboard navigation, use :
Ctrl(right)+arrow left for going back one page.
Ctrl(right)+arrow right for going forward one page.
Ctrl(right)+arrow down for closing a window.
This version uses a no-xul chrome, which makes it fast, but does
not allow xul-based extensions.
The flash plugin NPFWS32.dll can be added in the plugins folder to have flash support.
For more information read the notes in the file readme.html .

Download here :

K-Meleon-18111-forCD as zip file :

http://rapidshare.com/files/85464644/KM18111forCD.zip.html

or K-Meleon-18111-forCD as tarball for Linux :

http://rapidshare.com/files/85465962/KM18111forCD.tar.gz.html

When in Linux, you have to have msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll in your
system or in your K-Meleon main folder. If you need them, look for them in
the internet, and add them before burning the cd to the K-Meleon main folder.

Regards to all

Fred

Hmmm. Thank you very much, Fred. Now I would like to see a comparison of this new K-M for CD, with Alain's Portable K-M.

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Fred
can be burned to CD, to be used from a CD drive,
or from any other drive.

If K-M can be run from a CD, then that same K-M can be run from a USB stick, right?

Last year I did have real-life experience using a portable FF, with all my bookmarks, at an internet café in Costa Rica. As well, I did some work there with a very big, detailed Word doc containing a lot of biological research notes.

They worked so well that it was a bit freaky, because there were all my own personal tweaks and toolbars, as though I were at home--but this was far, far from home.

Only catch was that the internet café computer was retaining a perfect copy of absolutely everything people were calling up. It may have been by accident, or else it might have been that a few local people were doing it purposely but without the internet café knowing. It is just a matter of routinely clearing out (or not) a bunch of Windows files--probably everybody here knows which ones, but because I do CCleans automatically at home, I've forgotten. Temps; recent documents; whatever. After I'd been using the internet café a week or so, I just happened to notice (because something else aroused my suspicions). I cleaned out the whole shebang, hundreds of personal files grabbed from unknowing tourists, so if there was somebody doing it intentionally, he'd have been a trifle disappointed on his next visit.

I mention that as a word of caution. But, man, I just loved having my 4 GB USB stick--so much that I got a second one when I returned home. ($32 Cdn.) They are not always usable, because hotel computers might prevent their use or else might have old USB-1 ports. Plus there is a security risk, so I carried "travel" versions of my documents--meaning I censored out sensitive data before I left home. I never acquired any viruses on the stick; you have to watch that, too, especially if you're going between hotels and friends' places.

I carried a small fabric lizard in my pack as a good luck mascot. A green K-Meleon lizard on my USB stick would have been just the thing.

Use torpark if You want to recede to FF.

The ./app/torpark/firefox/firefox.exe can contain a renamed portable k-meleon. that will give You a configured tor.

A portablr k-meleon is the only portable browser that does not need to write on hdd. So You do not need Torpark.exe to clean up on hdd (I worked with a k-meleon contemporary of Torpark 1.5.0.8 that is tech from 2006 - the trick that prevents writing on hdd now is merely a year old



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/2008 12:38PM by guenter.

Elaborating on this, there's a portable version of TOR available at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/portabletor

BTW Carson, CCcleaner can be made portable by copying its folder to the USB drive, but then you might not have enough privileges for certain operations.

TrueCrypt can be made portable as well just by copying its folder, so one could have all of this in an inescrutable container -- do read truecrypt.org extensively please, before trying it on your own.

I am just in the process of finalizing a TOR cum KM 1.5a1 portable setup that I'll be glad to upload if anyone is interested...

The main purpose of K-Meleon-18111-forCD is of course to
be used from a (non writable) CD , which includes that
no history and no cache will be written.
When used from a USB stick, you can of course use an
added bookmarks file and reach it by an added Hotkey in
Tools/Hotkeys, and you can also replace the original
start page by your own homepage.
No traces of your browsing should remain on a host computer.
If you use additional programs from your USB stick,
they would probably leave traces, and it is also possible
that files which exist or that are created on your USB stick
could be read out while you use the host computer, or even
that data could be transferred to your USB stick which
you would not notice immediately.
The advantage of Portable KM is its higher flexibility and
features content, while K-Meleon-18111-forCD is less
vulnerable and does not need writing rights on a host computer,
because of its read only nature.
When used together with other (writing) programs, they
will bring along their own disadvantages.
Regards
Fred

P.S.
To avoid writing on your USB stick, you could use
a stick with mechanical write protection, the same
way as a floppy disk with a slide lock. I own some
older USB sticks with a lock, but I am not sure if
this variation is still produced.
How well a stick is protected against manipulation
from outside by non-mechanical write protection I
do not know for sure, but usually a host computer
could have administrator rights for another person
from remote. So a mechanical lock would be good, if
such a thing should still be available.
Fred

I am fascinated by all this. I had never heard of TOR. Especially when you put together a highly portable notebook computer and a USB stick (as a sort of satellite), the possibilities seem tantalizing. I keep getting the feeling that there is more to this than meets the eye——that there are some pretty neat things that haven't quite been thought of yet.

Thanks, everyone.

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Carson
Especially when you put together a highly portable notebook computer and a USB stick (as a sort of satellite)

and loose the USB with lots of k-meleon stuff - like me

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Carson
I am fascinated by all this.I had never heard of TOR.

you would have if you were here august 2006 I played with it when the first 1.x portables insisted to write on HDD.

i thought it was for ppl in .CN and so but since our own governments & allies started spying on us i see more use



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/03/2008 11:11AM by guenter.

@Carson

You can even run a special version of Windows XP out of your USB stick (if interested, try googling), if only the computer allows you to boot from it, but I guess there would be little point in that, don't you think? :p

like Barts PE CD?

Yeah I guess that is one option, although I never tried it... There are other methods mentioned at those www.msfn.org boards... :s

Edit: here's another option...

http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/01/31/

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/08/2008 03:49PM by foobarly.

. . .Well, the ones I played with were based in Barts. The point to it would be in repairing an XP. You could bring up the USB stick's XP "along side" the ailing XP and reach over and fix it.

This might (or might not) be easier than, say, setting up a second XP on a different partition and doing it that way--although you could have that second XP ready to go in about an hour, and the advantage to that method is that now you are a step ahead if you decide to abandon the first XP after all. Some people stay with an OS for years, and others like to put on a new one every six months anyway.

But the tricky part is in testing your stick. In fact that's the tricky part with anything portable. If the same program exists on the box, the program on the stick might not "stay with the stick", and could interfere with the resident program on the computer. You need to know it WON'T, before you mess up a friend's system.

And the people who post portables in the internet vary in their skills, plus the damage done can be extremely subtle. On the other hand, USB sticks are the best thing we have until we begin injecting our shoulders with teensy data chips.

@Guenter, you needed an automatic "phone home" on your stick that would zap all the stored info back to your system the moment the stick were plugged in. Or else maybe little legs so it could walk back to you.

I mentioned the msfn.org forums in my previous post because I recalled once reading an endless thread on the tips & traps of setting up Windows XP to/from a USB drive -- I went there and there it was at:

How to boot/install from USB key?

http://www.msfn.org/board/Install-XP-USB-f157.html

Plenty of other interesting threads over there for the serious XP hobbyist, from nlite & xpize to Windows Server 2008...

The download addresses for K-Meleon-18111-forCD can now
also be found on the page for unofficial K-Meleons at:

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/UKmeleon

Fred

Oops! So sorry Fred, for derailing your thread... :s