[Feature Request] Support portable installation

[tooomm]

I would love to use this portable...

[iklevente-zz]

Hello.

ChromiumForWindows works with the Installers, which can be found on https://chromium.woolyss.com/. Because I don't have control over those installers I can not make the actual Chromium browser to install itself into the Portable folder. Although it could be possible by telling the program to create NTFS Symbolic Links, it would mess up the default browser setting in Windows. I would need to do a lot of coding to get it fixed and it might not even work.

You might see that https://chromium.woolyss.com/ has a "Portable" download button at every Chromium branch they have. I could make the Updater to download that instead of the Installer. Well, all of them redirects me to the chrlauncher download site, so that's not an option..

But if you only need the actual ChromiumForWindows Updater to be portable, you can copy everything from C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Chromium\ to your Portable folder. It should run, but it will always create the Schortcuts directed to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Chromium\ChromiumLauncher.exe not to the actual Portable folder you have created.
To fix this, you will need to build the software without FixShortcuts.cs class and delete the await Task.Run(() => FixShortcut.MakeShortcuts()); Console.WriteLine("Shortcuts are done!"); lines in MainWindow.xaml.cs.

I leave this issue opened, since the NTFS Symbolic Link method might work, but if it won't, I will make sure to at least add an Updater portability option at the Releases page.

[iklevente-zz]

Your current best option is to use https://github.com/henrypp/chrlauncher. It is made for portability.
For now, in this project, I will experiment with the portable option, but as I said it will be hard. I will update you if I get some results.

[tooomm]

Your current best option is to use henrypp/chrlauncher.

Will have a look there. Seems like the best option. Thanks for sharing!