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Mozilla Crash Reporter

maxy_dawg - September 12, 2009 - 3:23pm

Firefox Portable 3.5.3
When Mozilla Crash Reporter is told to restart Firefox, it restarts it in non-portable mode.


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Really?

Do you mean that it launches the local version?

I've never had that problem. (and I always crash firefox) Sticking out tongue

[username] [at] gmx [dot] us

I also have this problem,

I also have this problem, crash -> crash reporter dialog -> Restart Firefox then it open a non-portable Firefox and create Profile, crash reporter for non-portable Firefox in "C:\Documents and Settings\********\Application Data\Mozilla"

Anyone help me solve this problem, thank so much!

I'm using Firefox Portable 6.0.2, do I need to compeletely disable Crash Reporter in application.ini ?

¿AllowMultipleInstances=True? : Dev Use Only, Not Supported.

Is your copy of FireFoxPortable set to allow multiple instances?
(This is set as "AllowMultipleInstances=True" under [FirefoxPortable] in X:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.ini)
If so, Firefox Portable's launcher (FirefoxPortable.exe) does not stay open, thus some non-personal data gets left behind on the machine, and FireFox Restarts will run firefox.exe directly without Portablizing it.

Note: John T Haller states in the forums on a semi-regular basis that FireFox's "AllowMultipleInstances" feature is meant for Developer's only, and is not a supported way to run FireFox, let alone FireFox Portable.

~3D1T0R

this happens even with

this happens even with AllowMultipleInstances=False

wut?

The launcher has special

The launcher has special crash detection. This shouldn't be happening unless something with it broke between releases, which I think is unlikely.

Siggys waste Bandwidth... that's why I have one.