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Firefox, Firefox Developer, and Firefox Nightly Portable editions may not work at the same time.

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Submitted by ianasystems on May 25, 2023 - 8:58am

Hello,

I have installed the Firefox Portable edition and it is working very fine. I also downloaded the Firefox Developer Portable edition and Firefox Nightly Portable edition, but the problem is that these applications do not work at the same time. I have to close and run them one by one for them to work.

I have this alert message.

Another instance of Firefox is already running.
Please close other instance of Firefox before launching Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition.

Please help!

Thank you.

Interaction between PortableApps startup and non-Portable Firefox Bookmarks

Submitted by renaldafeen on May 23, 2023 - 3:12pm

Whenever I start or shut down the main PortableApps application using Start.exe (or a shortcut for it), a very odd behavior occurs...
I have Firefox installed on my computer as a non-portable app. It is up to date and runs without any issues I have seen. I do NOT have the portable version of Firefox installed as a PortableApp.

[Solved] Add a Customer File in "Main" (AppNamePortable) folder

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Submitted by hpwamr on May 15, 2023 - 5:04am

> AppNamePortable: contains the main application launcher,
> typically named AppNamePortable.exe and the main help file help.html.
> No other files are present in this directory by default.

Here my "Main" (AppNamePortable) local folder with my added file:

Here-My-Custom-File-Local.png

I want to add this "Here_My_Custom_File" in "Main" (AppNamePortable) folder of the "PAF.exe" file.

Uninstall and Symbolic Links

Submitted by noki on May 12, 2023 - 9:46am

I guess this is more of a feature request.
Currently when you uninstall an app via the platform, the contents of symbolic links to sub folders are also removed in stead of just the link.
In my case, for some apps (like visual studio code) I have a symbolic link to the data folder. Installing a new version of Visual studio code takes 2 steps:
- delete the old visual studio code folder via windows explorer (this only removes the link, not the contents)
- create a now symbolic link to the data folder

PortableApps.com Platform trying to close OBS

Submitted by gaveitatry on April 21, 2023 - 11:19am

It's annoying how if I have OBS open (what if I am recording a video and have it on pause and don't want to exit the application as it will stop my recording) and I accidentally open up PortableApps program, then PortableApps keeps displaying a popup window telling me that OBS needs to be closed. If I click Cancel or OK without actually closing OBS first, the popup window just keeps reappearing. I can't right click on the PortableApps system tray icon to exit the program, because the popup window keeps getting in the way.

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