
But really, (almost) everything I have to say here applies to portable apps in general, so I expect it can be usefully referenced in many places beyond just Thunderbird's forums.


So now, to make those replies and my workload shorter by replacing all those words with the URL for this article, well, I'm writing this article once and posting it in the Thunderbird support forums. I've found myself suggesting the portable edition of Thunderbird more than once now, usually tangentially but as something that might prove useful. Just covering bases, since this is an article that I hope will be useful for some time.) And, oh yeah, "folders" and "directories" are synonyms when we're talking about computer file systems, too.

( It might be good - especially as time goes on - to let some people know that in the computer context, "app" is short for "application", and that both are synonyms for "program" and "software". Portable apps won't suit everybody's needs or everybody's particular use-cases, and some will even rightly point out that in a *certain* sense they are a step back to a much older way computer programs were handled, but they are a great addition to the options of the world now :-).
