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Making Firefox Portable your Default in VistaSubmitted by J Neutron on January 7, 2009 - 11:20am
I've been beating up my Vista64 laptop to get it to work like I want. After many, many attempts, clicking on a link in Thunderbird Portable would start a clean install of Firefox, and not start my own Firefox Portable. Of course, if Firefox Portable was already running, there was never a problem. It seems that Control Panel / Default Programs / Set Associations / Protocol (not the file types portion of the listing!) only allowed choosing Firefox or Internet Explorer with no option to "browse" or search for other programs. This affects the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. I found: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/register-firefox-portable-with-default.... After running it, the Protocol handlers list now includes Firefox Portable and allows me to choose it. Now the laptop works the way I want. I thought that this might be of some value to others here, as this question seems to come up fairly often in this forum. Sorry if there is a question about portability of this solution. Jim ( categories: )
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I really don't know why people keep trying to use Firefox PORTABLE as default browser instead of desktop version. Firefox PORTABLE wasn't made to be used as it.
Let's use the things as they were made to be used.
I'm brazilian, my english isn't good. Thanks.
Choices
I can understand your point, but I have reasons to use the Portable version instead of the desktop version.
I like using the exact same thing locally and portably. I can pick the folder up, slap it onto a USB stick or drive, and go where I want. And I can have the laptop work the way I want.
Maybe that's not the way you do things. That's OK. Nobody said that you have to do things my way or that everybody has the same set of circumstances. Choices, my friend... choices.
What's wrong with that?
Jim
neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com
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Sorry if I seem rude =P
But you can pick your profile from desktop version and paste on your USB stick too...
I'm brazilian, my english isn't good. Thanks.
Its OK
No offense taken.
Tell me, what is the advantage in using Firefox instead of Firefox Portable?
And then the other way around, too.
Jim
neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com
Starting Firefox portable... automatically ?
Maybe my machines aren't fast enough, but I find the non-portable Firefox faster than the portable one. That's especially true if I open pages with Flash, videos and other elaborate content.
One trick I haven't tried, but might be worth a try. If you manually start Firefox Portable and keep it open, what happens when you click on a desktop link?
I know I use that "behavioural feature" in Thunderbird. I typically open Firefox (non-portable) and Thunderbird portable. I have defined Thunderbird (non portable) as my default e-mail program in Windows. If Thunderbird portable is already started, when I click on a mailto link on a webpage, it correctly links it to Thunderbird portable.
In case it matters, my system is Windows XP (French). Default browser is Firefox.
Starting Firefox portable... automatically ?
Besides the reason already stated, copying non-portable FireFox to a USB will then leave behind a local USERDATA instance wherever you launch it.
Better (in my opinion) to standardize on the portable one and use FIREFOXPORTABLE.EXE so that the local USERDATA instance is removed upon exiting the program.
windows2000
Hi!
I have the same problem, but in windows2000.
The Tool for WinXP doesnt work in 2000.
Any idea how to use Firefox portable as standard browser with my profile ?
If FFp is open, it works fine, but not if it is closed, then the 0815-standard-profile is used
Magiceye
SD Card
I use firefox portable on an sd card, when i use it on the go, the sd card goes in an adaptor. So it is used as my default browser.
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i found a tool that also
i found a tool that also works with windows2000 and sets every exe-file as standard-browser: http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/setbrowser/
now FFp works fine
Register Thunderbird
You're a lifesaver, Jim.
I've been looking how to do this with Firefox for ages and finally came across your post. It worked like a dream!
Don't suppose you've done a similar thing for Thunderbird?
I managed to find a hack to get it working (http://portableapps.com/node/11309#comment-111204), but would love to be able to easily unregister it like with your app.
Cheers
Floyd
PortableFileAssociator?
You can use this to create an association between htm, html, etc files with Portable Firefox, and then it should behave like the default browser.
http://portableapps.com/node/15583
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Cafe?
http://portableapps.com/node/13453
Would Cafe work? I like how it also allows an additional application by pressing the ALT key.