Applies to Self-Extracting publications

Self-Extracting publications can work with a portable web browser that you ship with them. Popular web browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome have portable editions, and you can use them with your Self-Extracting publication. This topic will tell you how to proceed.

Configuration Steps

First, you need to obtain the distribution of a portable web browser. For instance, you can download Google Chrome Portable at http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portable or Firefox portable at http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Unpack the entire distribution to a subfolder located in the folder where your publication EXE file is located.

For example, if the Output Path of your publication EXE file is c:\my documents\htmlexe\portablepub1.exe, the distribution can be unpacked to a folder whose path is: C:\my documents\htmlexe\GoogleChromePortable

In HTML Executable, open your SFX publication project and choose Application Settings => Web Browser. Then, enable "Use a portable web browser whose relative path is".

You must indicate the path to the portable web browser's executable file in the field that follows. The path must be relative to the folder where the publication EXE file is located.

• For Google Chrome, it should be: GoogleChromePortable\GoogleChromePortable.exe
• For Firefox portable, FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe

Deployment

When you deploy your publication, do not forget to ship the entire subfolder that contains the distribution of the portable web browser.