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You'll be able to develop on internet cafe and shared computers without needing to have Firefox installed if you have a USB drive with Mozilla Firefox, Portable
by JohnTHaller 12y ago
You'll be able to develop on internet cafe and shared computers without needing to have Firefox installed if you have a USB drive with Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition [1] on it. The WebIDE is already available in Firefox 34 nightly builds, which are also portable [2]. You won't be able to install the drivers to connect to a Firefox OS device without admin rights, of course.
[1] - http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
[2] - http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test#nightly http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test#...
- iancarroll 12y agoI don't live anywhere near a startup "area", but has anyone actually seen an internet cafe that isn't locked with over protective software?
- JohnTHaller 12y agoThere are quite a few. It basically varies with the type and size of internet cafe. Large commercial internet cafes with dozens of machines that only do internet will often be locked down and reset the PC after each user. Many will have software prohibiting just about everything. Some will not. Smaller places like copy and photo shops that have a dozen machines or coffee shops with several machines will often have machines that allow portable software use.
- kbenson 12y agoI'm less worried about the computers at an internet cafe being locked down with overprotective software than I am that the aforementioned overprotective software, if it exists, will probably do very little to keep out actual nefarious software which would just love to have access to lots of USB keys.
- petecox 12y agoCan the WebIDE be made self-hosting; on the device itself? i.e. connect up your Flame to a HDMI display via MHL and attach a mouse and keyboard through a powered usb hub. No desktop required!