Hey guys I am trying to play a game called Runescape in school, I am using a flash drive for Firefox portable and java portable, I have seen many guides on how to use it, but as you know most school have almost any site blocked, but that is not the issue I can get around that. I am here for help on how to get Firefox portable and java portable to work at my school, it works at home but, when I plug it in at school it doesn't seem to find it. When I got to the game site it says i need to install java runtime environment. I have already installed this and still Firefox portable does not seem to find it. I am pretty sure there is a way to get it to find it in a folder, could someone show me how to set this up please? I have seen many ways to do it but seem out dated, maybe not maybe so, but if anyone has another way to help I would be greatly appreciated!
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June 3, 2010 - 10:32am
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Firefox portable and Java portable
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Firefox Portable and Java Portable can't go together due to some registry issues. The registry key in windows that firefox looks for is in the HKLM, which it can't be done without administrative privilidges. I'm pretty sure we've been trying to solve this problem, but that's hard to do since it's not an issue on our part.
GNU IceCat Portable might be able to do it if it ever gets official. I also highly don't recommend playing games at school, in case you get caught and get into trouble.
I can't imagine how slow Runescape would be on a java and firefox running from a flash drive, with the added proxy.
Firefox (both installed version and portable version) may use the environment variable "MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH" to search for plugins, so you can:
1) create a new environment variable in your OS using the above-mentioned name and put as value [current plugins folder];[portable java plugins folder]
2) simply create a batch file (.BAT file), using the "set" DOS command to set the above-mentioned environment variable in the same format:
set moz_plugin_path=[current plugins folder];[portable java plugins folder]
and then insert a new line to run Firefox.
3) using the .INI file of the portable firefox version to include the plugins folder of Portable Java.
The [current plugins folder] is the current folder of Firefox Plugins. If you don't know where it is, open firefox, go to Plugins page, search for "default plugin", you can read the full path where the default firefox plugin is placed.
The [portable java plugins folder] is the current folder of plugins used by portable java. It is placed in "Java\bin\new_plugin" folder (Java is the root folder where Portable Java has been installed). If you still have problem, search for file "npjp2.dll", and take note of the related folder where it is placed.
To check if one of the above-mentioned procedure has gone well, open Firefox and you should have two new items inside Plugins page:
"Java Deployment Toolkit" and "Java Platform SE".
Hope this may be useful for all of you.
P.S. If you use the procedure 1, you must logoff Windows and logon Windows again in order to let Windows load the new environment variable.
Could you please stop posting the same content on different threads? Every time it's been on a old thread which doesn't need resurrecting.
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