The other day I realised that I hadn't updated the Portable Firefox program on my USB stick for quite some time so I went ahead and did that. It was then that I thought about installing Google Browser Sync on the portable Firefox so I can take my Firefox settings with me. But GBS stubbornly refuses to install.

GBS works fine on regular computers but on USB sticks, it kicks up a hell of a fight. First you have the battle to get it onto the USB stick in the first place (it seems impossible to download the "xpi" file directly to your computer and then drag it to the USB stick which would be the easiest solution) and when it finally gets on the USB stick, it says it won't properly install until Firefox has been re-started. When you do that, it tells you that Firefox didn't close in the first place! Several re-starts later, it sits there uninstalled as if to ask "so when are you planning on re-starting Firefox then?".

Does anyone have any clue how to make GBS work on a USB stick? If I can't get it to work, I may switch to Foxmarks.