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Firefox and the redirected home folder

ahbrown41 - April 27, 2006 - 8:24am

Hey John,
So I love the U3 Firefox and Thunderbird, but the redirecting of the home directory to my U3 drive really drives my crazy sometimes.. When I download a file into My Documents it puts it into the U3 drive My Documents for instance. When I install program, they put their application data in the U3 Application Data folder.

While this could be conceptually cool it can also be rather annoying as I use my U3 drive at work and it really messes with the computer.

Is there any way to make this an option?

Thanks!

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John T. Haller
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(Homepage) - April 27, 2006 - 8:39am

In order to be U3 certified, an application can't leave anything behing on a PC... even if it's just a trivial file like pluginreg.dat. In this case, the cure is worse than the disease... but the cure is required for U3.

I'm working on another way to accomplish this for a later version.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Cool, thanks John!

ahbrown41 - May 1, 2006 - 1:46pm

Cool, thanks John!

Great news

PQuantin - May 3, 2006 - 7:15am

This is great news as I also suffer of this problem.
When can we expect a new U3 version which will benefit from all the improvements you did in Portable Firefox ?
BTW, thanks a lot for your hard work. I love your tweaked apps !

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