Portable Browser :- How to be my Default Browser and/or use a URL Link


  1. Posts : 264
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1 x64
       #1

    Portable Browser :- How to be my Default Browser and/or use a URL Link


    My desktop URL link is unable to access the Web based Admin console of my Netgear Router,
    and various application "F1 / Help" buttons no longer give help when they need internet resources.

    Previously I started with a conventional installed Firefox Browser,
    but after erratic premature update releases chose the more stable Palemoon,
    and placed the Portable variant on my secondary HDD because I dislike the junk that Mozilla browsers place on my system drive.
    Everything worked perfectly.
    I never recognized that once or twice a month only Firefox COULD meet a "Default Browser" requirement

    With a brand new install of Windows on a new SSD,
    and Palemoon continuing to work perfectly on original secondary HDD,
    I thought all was well.
    Now I know better.

    My old desktop URL link to the Router was simply
    http://192.168.2.1
    I have now replaced that with a desktop shortcut to Palemoon plus argument
    E:\Portable\PaleMoon\Palemoon-Portable.exe http://192.168.2.1
    I may in future find more URL links that need replacing.

    To access help on my applications I now have to firstly locate and secondly download relevant resources that I can quickly link to.

    If I really have to then I will use a standard non-portable version of Palemoon,
    But I am hoping for a clever trick that would make Windows use the Portable version as my Default Browser.

    Regards
    Alan
      My Computer


  2. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #2

    May be geekier ways, but an easy way might be this:

    Change Default Browser

    Looks like with portable browsers, you will have to manually set the path.

    A Guy
      My Computer


  3. Posts : 264
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1 x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks

    That looks good. I will try it out and return with the results.

    Regards
    Alan
      My Computer


  4. Posts : 264
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1 x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    A Guy said:
    May be geekier ways, but an easy way might be this:

    Change Default Browser

    Looks like with portable browsers, you will have to manually set the path.

    A Guy
    Thanks, it works but unfortunately not portably.

    I knew it would do things to the O.S., probably via Registry changes.

    What I was not expecting was that when launched as my Default Browser it uses 25 MB in a new SYSTEM drive folder
    C:\Users\Alan\AppData\Local\Moonchild Productions\Pale Moon\Profiles\4qbu47br.default.
    This 25 MB includes a new 20 MB urlclassifier3.sqlite,
    which I expect will grow with repeated use to the typical size of 50 MB.

    It was 50 MB urlclassifier3.sqlite which made me look for a portable variant of Firefox.
    At the moment the only solution I can see is to use a Reparse Point and relocate the system folder to drive E:\,
    which is the technique I used when Firefox was installed.

    Thanks for the advice.

    Even though I cannot get the results I wanted,
    I gained new knowledge which has to be a good thing

    Regards
    Alan
      My Computer


 

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