AstroSkipper Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 4 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said: Not if you use (and know how to configure) a "portable loader". I do not use a portable loader for Thorium. And I assume @chermany4ever either. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chermany4ever Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 2 hours ago, AstroSkipper said: I do not use a portable loader for Thorium. And I assume @chermany4ever either. What's THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat then? There's no way to save changes to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 That .bat file does NOT make Thorium "portable" because registry-writes are stored on the host computer. That is a "simplistic" way of setting two "flags" for "encryption" and "machine-id", but a true PORTABLE browser requires more than that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroSkipper Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 23 minutes ago, chermany4ever said: What's THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat then? There's no way to save changes to it? Thorium is not a truly portable application. If it were such one, it wouldn't change anything in Windows or revert all changes, which were done, immediately after closing the browser. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
66cats Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 11 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said: a true PORTABLE I think by "portable," most mean "lets me stick the folder on a flash drive, and pick up where i left off, on another computer." What's the drawback of registry writes (real question)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroSkipper Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 3 minutes ago, 66cats said: What's the drawback of registry writes (real question)? If these registry entries weren't reverted and stored inside the Thorium folder, you can't expect to pick up where it was left off by using it on another computer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
66cats Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) 24 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said: you can't expect to pick up where it was left off by using it on another computer. Just tested, and turns out i can (the browser opened to the same tabs). I think the USER_DATA folder (which is created inside the Thorium folder when you use THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat) is where all that is kept, not in the registry. Edited June 6 by 66cats 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 I can take my PORTABLE browser anywhere and pick up EXACTLY where I left off. I can browse in XP at home and then take it to work and pick up EXACTLY where I left off in Win10. I do that via X-Chrome's "loader". I've never actually tried Thorium via the .bat (I use a "loader" for ALL my browsers, be it Chrome/Chromium-based or Mozilla-based). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 1 hour ago, 66cats said: What's the drawback of registry writes (real question)? Personal preference. I run 50-some programs on my computer. Only TWO of them are allowed to write to the registry. I do that because Windows is NOTORIOUS for *mangled* registries. Uninstall a program, portions are still left in the registry, et cetera. 99 times out of 100, if your computer is "slow", it's because the registry is "mangled". Okay, call it 89 times out of 100, lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chermany4ever Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 1 hour ago, 66cats said: I think by "portable," most mean "lets me stick the folder on a flash drive, and pick up where i left off, on another computer In my book portable is a program that you can run without installing it. Many and I mean many times installed programs and then when installed or uninstalled ended up with corrupted files, crashes, other programs crashing, etc. Don't care so much about being able to continue where I was but knowing that I can run the program only when I need it without that meaning a bigger problem, like now, that I have to go back to a healthy system image because a program somehow damaged it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Ever want to totally corrupt your computer - install Avast or McAfee then try to uninstall it. Be warned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroSkipper Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) 1 hour ago, 66cats said: Just tested, and turns out i can (the browser opened to the same tabs). I think the USER_DATA folder (which is created inside the Thorium folder when you use THORIUM_PORTABLE.bat) is where all that is kept, not in the registry. I didn't refer to your browser session and bookmarks. Install some extensions and then use your "portable" folder on another computer! Then, you will see. A simple check of the registry is actually enough. The key is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thorium as I already mentioned. Edited June 6 by AstroSkipper Update of content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCyborg Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 35 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said: I run 50-some programs on my computer. Sometimes I wonder what people that frequent this forum actually do on their computers besides running new browsers on ancient Windows versions or trying to run ancient Windows versions on even more ancient hardware or more modern hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chermany4ever Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 8 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said: Ever want to totally corrupt your computer - install Avast or McAfee then try to uninstall it. Be warned. Can't talk about McAfee, it's never been my cup of tea, but Avast? I don't want to talk bad anyway, not even doing it with Thorium 'cause of this personal problem this experience brought me, on the contrary, I recognize and appreciate the effort. But the truth is I see installing programs as a thing of the past. Very occasionally, if there's no other way around and I really want to test some software, what I do is create a fake user account, that kinda creates a parallel space where later, if you have problems, you can delete the user and that's it. You avoid problems in the personal one. Which makes me think sometimes you get overconfident with portables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
66cats Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) 30 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said: Install some extensions and then use your "portable" folder on another computer! But that's exactly what i did. Or, rather, not exactly. I lied. Simply booted into another OS in the same computer (multiboot). Copying the folder to a flash drive (the folder is huge, ~ 3 gigs, USB 2.0 is slow), just to make sure. Will post from it in a few Edited June 6 by 66cats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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