Firefox Portable on USB flash drive info.

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So I have a work computer at my disposal and my cheapo laptop is having troubles with the LCD screen and I don't feel like spending a lot of cash to fix it up or get a new one. I still want to surf my favorite websites, store my favorite bookmarks and download files that may or may not be 100% on the up and up.

My job states that my work computer is to be used for work purposes only but I'd kinda like to get around that without having my job put in danger.

I had recently heard about using Firefox Portable on a USB flash drive for "covert" surfing. I don't want to get into an ethics discussion because I want to do what I want to do. I've already decided on that. I'm only looking for the ins and outs of covering my tracks.

Does FFPortable on a flash drive work without leaving a history trail? I suppose that I can't use it while on the business network, but how about at home? Anyone do this? Any tips? Thanks.
 
Try Google's Chrome browser, you can open any link in an incognito window by Right clicking the link. Or you can open a new window in incognito. It leaves no history, no tracks, cookies or anything.

James
 
You can find tons of stuff on using Portable FF at www.portableapps.com. Go to the forums section and read all you want.

For what it's worth, Portable FF will not leave any tracks behind. No cookies, no history or anything on your desktop. IT guys can see where you're going and what you're doing online through other ways, if they really want too. Chances are, they won't even look though.

There is a portable version of Google's Chrome, but I don't know if it really runs as a "stealth" program though.

You can use a combination of Portable Firefox, Portable Vidalia and a FF add on called TORBUTTON to slow down the IT guys ;)
 
This may not work for you, but a Blackberry Bold would let you surf while still complying with your employer's no-use policy.


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I'm connected via Firefox portable right now. I have a typical "police" laptop in the car, and the IT guys thought they were being clever by re-routing the IE icon to the Law Enforcement Web site.

Easy to get past that, but leaves tracks. I've been using FF portable in a thumb drive for nearly a year. If you install it using your home computer, you can easily transfer all your bookmarks.
If you need an audio/video player that runs on the thumb drive, try the "VLC" player available from portable apps. Seems to handle all normal media files....
 
Download a linux live cd such as damn small linux and boot from that, that way the host operating system never even gets loaded up
 
My work has the internet blocked on my laptop. Would this work for me?
 
I had an old celaron Windows 95 that I reformatted with Puppy Linux and it was like a whole new much faster computer that worked really well for sites like this and 99% of the stuff I do on the net.

I have tried a lot of different media players because i watch a lot of downloaded anime with weird russian codecs and by far the best media player set up is CCCP. Community codec project is available for free on Wikipedia and actually has 2 media players.
My favourite is Media Player classic because it plays anything and is very intuitive control. I have the other media player on CCCP set up so it pops up on my TV which really simplifies watching coomputer files on it.

They both work good for subs. I had a turkish download of a french movie and I was able to remove the turkish subs and put on english ones.
 
if you are connecting though your companies server, and they happen to monitor traffic, you will still get busted, if they only use a router, and do not monitor traffic, then you'd be cool. remember even if you don't leave tracks on your comp, you still leave tracks somewhere...
 
gadgetgeek said:
if you are connecting though your companies server, and they happen to monitor traffic, you will still get busted, if they only use a router, and do not monitor traffic, then you'd be cool. remember even if you don't leave tracks on your comp, you still leave tracks somewhere...
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EXACTLY, be careful and please realize your job could still be at risk.


shootist16 said:
My work has the internet blocked on my laptop. Would this work for me?
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It may. really it depends on exactly how they have blocked internet traffic. Sometimes ITs take the easy way out. Simply using Portable FF and Privoxy could get you going. You'll probably be breaking company rules and will be subject to their punishments though.
 
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