I just recently started to use Firefox Portable and I'm not sure if this is normal behavior or not (or if there is a way to change the behavior). Depending on the computer I am on, different add-ons will show up. For example, the computer I am on now has AVG anti-virus on it, and so I get a lovely new toolbar on my browser. This computer does not have a local copy of Firefox. Is there a way to use only add-ons that are stored on my flash drive?
Thanks,
Kyle
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Yeah, this is normal.
But I don't know how to stop it... actually, I asked the same question about plugins (same thing happens with them too) once (wait.. did I?)
This is an issue in Firefox itself; there's nothing we can do about it as far as I know, short of doing some things which could cause trouble for other apps.
The AVG issue is one which has caught me a couple of times as well, and it seems to be that AVG itself registers the extension when it notices Firefox starting, or something like that. What I did to "fix" it was just to hide the toolbar, then it at least never came back, even if the plugin would come and go.
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But...
Althought it's an issue, it's still normal
(LOL!!!).
Try locking the \extensions\ folder in your Profile.
By 'lock' you mean make it read only? I tried this and as soon as I opened Firefox on a different OS & PC I get a new extension is installed popup.
Is there a way of just ignoring this popup so it doesn't even happen. It would seem AVG causes an extension to install as does .NET - I just want to open Firefox with no extra popup window to display.
hope they will be solved in next versions of mozilla products!
chekc here for AVG:
http://www.technipages.com/firefox-3-cant-uninstall-avg-safe-search-exte...
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&comme...
AVG and ms dicovered how to install extensions while bypassing all seeting of the browser itself.
Check also here the avg string in the about:config file of the browser, belive it can be found there and reseted, have no avg here, so can not try.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland