For people who love to carry software on a USB drive or if you are behind a corporate firewall and can’t install new software, here’s something you have been waiting for - Google Chrome 2.0 in a portable avatar.
Like other portable apps, Google Chrome 2 portable too has all the features available in the main Chrome browser but requires no installation - just unzip the files in a folder and start Chroming.
To download your copy of portable Google Browser, head over to this site and click the download link - the site in German but the software language is English.
The portable Google browser can run directly from the USB stick
You can also consider using the portable version of Google Browser in case you have trouble installing Google Chrome via the standard Google Pack Installer - the other alternative is to use the offline installer of Google Chrome browser available here.
With Google Chrome portable, all user settings including web history and cookies are saved on to the same folder - the program settings are saved in "Chrome" folder while the user settings go in the "Profile" folder. Portable Chrome was earlier tested on Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1 machines.
Also see: Create Multiple Profiles in Google Chrome
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Reader Comments
Brilliant, thanks Amit!
Written by Robin on 09.04.08
Wow its marvelous!
Written by Kartik K on 09.04.08
Thanks! Just what I was looking for.
Written by Anders on 09.04.08
Nice to see a portable chrome already ready!
Written by Amit Bhawani on 09.04.08
Works beautifully, thanks for the link Amit! It’s interesting that it connects to clients1.google.de.
Written by Cyn on 09.04.08
Real creative! PortableApps.com has hundreds of ‘Portable’ versions of common softwares like email, browsers (Firefox!) that you can carry on USB, iPOD or just about any storage device.
Written by rohitblog on 09.04.08
I am not able to install it in office. I got binary from some where but it does not open any webpage. We are behind a proxy which uses a script for proxy. Both IE and Firefox 3 are just fine. Guess that Chrome jumped too fast!
Written by Arvind on 09.05.08
wow! one more cool thing in market.Nice publicity of chrome by Google.
Written by zazo on 09.05.08
I could not install the normal chrome owing to the dredded error 4 so this is just brill , thank you
Written by ralph on 09.13.08
thanks thats what i was looking for….now i can easily carry my chrome on my laptop
Written by FunKruti on 02.05.09