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How do you direct the "View Source" in Firefox Portable to open Notepad ++ Portable?

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blastprocessing0
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How do you direct the "View Source" in Firefox Portable to open Notepad ++ Portable?

How do you direct the "View Source" in Firefox Portable to open Notepad ++ Portable? I know I can specify an absolute path (e.g. "E:\PortableApps\Notepad++Portable\Notepad++Portable.exe") for my view_source.editor.path in the Firefox about:config BUT I cannot always guarantee that my flash drive will be the "E" drive. Is there another way to write this path so that no matter what drive letter my flash drive gets mounted to it will always work?

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Well...

I haven't tried this yet but... see if this works.

In the field type in this...

".\PortableApps\Notepad++Portable\Notepad++Portable.exe"

It's called relative paths.

two dots makes the path go up a directory ".."

While one dot makes it go back to the root "."

I'm not sure if firefox supports it though, so try it.

Hope this helps, and

Welcome to PortableApps.com Blum

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Doesn't work.

Doesn't work.

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I guess FirefoxPortable will

I guess FirefoxPortable will take care of change the drive letter when needed Smile

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What makes you assume that?

What makes you assume that?

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John T. HallerThe launcher handles all settings of normal extensions stored in prefs.js itself and updates them to the new path on launch. You're overcomplicating things by assuming you need to manually do something.

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