Every time I open a link in Thunderbird, if my portable firefox is not open, it save information to the local HD. How can I prevent this?
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Could you explain in more detail exactly what is happening?
What version of TB are you using [portable or not]?
As a norm you can't open links in in TBP using FireFoxPortable , are they being opened by a local install of FF [not portable] ? What is being left behind and where?
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
What version of TB are you using [portable or not]? Portable 2.0.0.19
As a norm you can't open links in in TBP using FireFoxPortable , are they being opened by a local install of FF [not portable]? It opens with Firefox, but not my portable. I even uninstalled FF on my work computer, but it still opens without any of my bookmarks, themes, etc.
What is being left behind and where? Profile info is being left on the host computer in the normal profile place (i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\firefox.
In a way, the portable applications are "designed" that way. Because they don't register in the registry, the linking mechanism doesn't work. However, there is a workaround possible, at least on a computer that you have control upon.
1. Install Firefox on your computer.
2. Define it as your default browser. Then, when you click on a link in a received e-mail, it will start -- or try to start -- Firefox.
3. Open Firefox Portable. Keep it open.
4. Click on links.
Whether you use Thunderbird Portable or any other browser (except an integrated one like Seamonkey), your computer will send the link to Firefox. Since Firefox portable is already open, the link will open in Firefox portable, which is exactly what you want.
This trick also work the other way (i.e. from your browser to Thunderbird Portable). So if you start Thunderbird portable and Firefox portable, you will be able to send links automatically between both applications. Of course, this doesn't work on "foreign" computers where Internet Explorer or Outlook are defined as defaut.
P.S. Trick extensively used on Windows XP.
Michel Gagnon
Montréal (Québec, Canada)