Portable Sunbird Released (USB-Friendly)

CritterNYC · Post by **CritterNYC** » December 3rd, 2004, 1:06 pm

This thread is being retired in favor of a new thread for a new release:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=211318

Due to increased interest, I've created a launcher and complete instructions for running Sunbird from a USB key or other portable drive. It should work from any removable media drive (USB thumbdrive, external hard drive, CDRW in packet mode, etc). I'll be creating a full package with similar compression as with Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird in the future.

Get it while it's hot:
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_sunbird/

Rod Whiteley · Post by **Rod Whiteley** » December 6th, 2004, 11:06 am

On your web page I see:

"...well, once Sunbird has some extensions, that is..."

Calendar Help is a Sunbird extension:
http://calendarhelp.mozdev.org

and Journal will soon be another:
http://journal.mozdev.org

At present Sunbird can only install them globally (not in the profile), so
I assume that they will also work OK with Portable Sunbird.

CritterNYC · Post by **CritterNYC** » December 7th, 2004, 2:14 am

Rod Whiteley wrote:On your web page I see:

"...well, once Sunbird has some extensions, that is..."

Calendar Help is a Sunbird extension:
http://calendarhelp.mozdev.org

and Journal will soon be another:
http://journal.mozdev.org

At present Sunbird can only install them globally (not in the profile), so
I assume that they will also work OK with Portable Sunbird.

I had searched around, but couldn't find any extensions for it.

The launcher fixes profile paths only, so it will not work with the current incarnation of Sunbird. Is profile installation expected soon?

Regards,
John

Rod Whiteley · Post by **Rod Whiteley** » December 7th, 2004, 6:43 am

CritterNYC wrote:Is profile installation expected soon?

I see no sign of Sunbird's extension manager being fixed soon, and I do not understand it well enough to be able to attempt it myself.

CritterNYC · Post by **CritterNYC** » December 7th, 2004, 7:53 pm

Calendar portability isn't handled by the current launcher. I've made a note on the project page. The next launcher revision will address this.

CritterNYC · Post by **CritterNYC** » January 31st, 2005, 10:43 pm

This thread is being retired in favor of a new thread for a new release:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=211318