Portable Mode

Browser Tamer fully supports "portable mode". However, you have to manually enable it as it is uncommon.

Before you start

Make sure that:

You have downloaded .zip from GitHub Releases.
You have extracted bt.exe into a dedicate folder on removable media.

Making it portable

Browser Tamer will check if .portable file exists in the same folder as bt.exe is located. And if it does,

Portable mode

config.ini will be placed alongside `bt.exe`.
Rule Hit Log will be placed alongside `bt.exe` if turned on.

Creating portable marker

You can create .portable file either manually in any editor, or using the following PowerShell snippet:

New-Item .portable -Type File

Using portable paths

When editing config.ini manually (which is not recommended), you can use relative paths in the icon property for both browser icon and/or profile icon like so:

[browser:...]
icon = ./logos/my_browser.png

This will cause Browser Tamer to look for logos/my_browser.png in the same folder as bt.exe is located. This is useful if you want to keep all your icons in the same folder as the application.

Last modified: 20 October 2025