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Is it possible to install and use Firefox in a local disk drive D: ?

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A desktop computer with Windows XP, Professional Version and Service Pack 3. The browser is Explorer 8 and the search engine is Google. There is very little free space left in local disk drive C: and the browser Google combination is painfully slow. The computer also has a local disk drive D: which has only recently been formatted as NTFS with about 18 GB of free memory. Can I use this drive D: to install and operate Firefox ? Drive C: is probably the default drive in the installation process and the question is can it be altered to drive D:, if so how is it done. How much memory does Firefox use after it is installed. Any direction and advice would be appreciated to use as much of drive D: as possible with a Firefox Google combination. Thank you for considering this post.

A desktop computer with Windows XP, Professional Version and Service Pack 3. The browser is Explorer 8 and the search engine is Google. There is very little free space left in local disk drive C: and the browser Google combination is painfully slow. The computer also has a local disk drive D: which has only recently been formatted as NTFS with about 18 GB of free memory. Can I use this drive D: to install and operate Firefox ? Drive C: is probably the default drive in the installation process and the question is can it be altered to drive D:, if so how is it done. How much memory does Firefox use after it is installed. Any direction and advice would be appreciated to use as much of drive D: as possible with a Firefox Google combination. Thank you for considering this post.

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the-edmeister
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If you would install Firefox on the D:/ drive the vast majority of its files would end up in /Documents and Settings/ on the C:/ drive where the operating system resides.

Firefox Portable will keep all its files together, where you install it. http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

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I installed Firefox Portable on a memory stick in F:/drive along with Adobe Flash Player plug in. Thank you for your advice, it seems to work fine. I need help on two more related items: 

i) I only chose the Mozilla Firefox Portable app during installation.
   Can you show me how to bring this long list of available apps up on the  monitor and how to install any additional apps.  Can Firefox run more than one app at a time eg. Firefox Portable and Audacity?

2) I want to have Mozilla Firefox Portable as my browser. But I need your help to show me how to make Google as the default search engine to minimize the number of steps required to bring Google up as the search engine Thank you

cor-el
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You can install the regular release on the D drive, but you would have the use the Profile Manager to create a profile on that D drive by choosing an empty folder for that new profile. Never use a folder that already has files in it.

See "Creating a profile":