Partitions and Portable FF questions

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2 queries:

1)
I recently had a 80gb hard drive fail!!
With some help I was able to do a restore with a Ghost image (which went very well) into a 240gb drive.

My helper set up the new image on C: drive in a partition of 80gb which I suspect was some sort of Ghost default, as in, the same size as previous drive.
This has left me with a 160 gb partition which is now the F: drive.

I dont really need this much space on the F; partition and would like to modify the drive partition sizes (+/- creating other drives).

What are the tools for this? Any favourites, advice, pitfalls?

2)

Calling BigBuck and others, how is the portable FF going?

I want to set this up on 2 USB drives; one flash card of 8gb (La Cie Carte Orange no moving parts!! ; Christmas present = good one) and a standard external usb hard drive.

Just wanting to check pitfalls and successes.

Will the portable FF running from either drive pick up any internet connection established at any workstation/home comp or are there some special configs req.?

Are the usual safety and tab extensions functional in the portable FF?

Can I just copy the profile from my current FF to the portable apps?

I have been to JH's site http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/browsers/portable_firefox
What a star!
Just wanting to suss out anybody else's experience.

3)
Does any one have a simple way of moving single/ multiple FF bookmarks from comp to comp? See this thread:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=359864&sid=3608eacfdd2da38f9f4852ea8c68e8fb

OOoPPsss Three questions.

Thanks.

[bigbuck]

It's been a while since I've used it (I've got 1.0.5 Beta), but it worked brilliantly from a standard usb thumb drive. I've now got FF on quite a few stations at work.
I don't recall copying settings from my profile....but they may have been picked up the first time I ran it at home, because all my bookmarks etc were there. Found this though;
-{ Quote: "Copying Your Local Firefox Settings

If you're using a local copy of Firefox, you may wish to just copy your local Firefox settings right into Portable Firefox. Your local Firefox profile is usually installed in C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.???\ Just copy all of those files except the cache directories to the profile directory within Portable Firefox. When you start Portable Firefox for the first time, be sure to turn off disk cache, password saving and history if you're using a non-hard drive portable device. You can set all of these within the Privacy tab of the Firefox Options window. Sometimes, certain profiles will cause the launcher to fail or hang. This is usually due to an incompatible extension." }-
I used it on the network at work (on machines that only had IE) and never had a problem. Not too sure about some of the extensions (but then I only run a handful anyway), but I believe they've improved it in later versions.
Your bookmarks are in a file called 'bookmarks' in your profile. C:, Docs and settings, username, application data (this one's hidden, so you'll need to 'view hidden folders' in folder options),mozilla, firefox, profile.
You should just be able to copy this file and do the import/export thing in 'manage bookmarks' from whichever machine you like.
Best advice is to just have a play with it, and see if you like it. Maybe try it on a thumb drive first...
HTH,
Brad.

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Thanks.

[bigbuck]

Cheers. I'm DL'ing the new version myself...

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Pardon me: little bump

Using FF portable: great app.

Any help with the partition questions? :-\

Regards.