Hi there, I have installed TBPortable as part of the Suite. When I click a link in a message nothing happens and I have to copy and paste the link into my browser. I have had TBPortable installed independently for quite a while and have never had this problem. I also copied my previous profile into the suite application so if linking is part of my prefs it should be all good, shouldn't it? Any suggestions?
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I don't know, but you should copy and paste links anyway because clicking opens the default browser on the system.
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Hi there, Thanks for your reply. The default browser issue may happen when TB and FF are installed via portableapps suite. But I have FF standard installed on my PC and when I had FF and TB portable installed independently (not in portapps suite) on my portable hard drive clicking a TB portable link would open a FF portable window as long as I had opened (it didn't need to still be open) a FF portable window at some point prior to clicking the link. Hope that makes sense. I link heaps and heaps out of my emails and it is a right pain to not only to have to copy and paste the link every single time but to open a new browser window if I close it after a previous copy and paste.
It shouldn't have worked that way in the past.... but,. if you have FFP open and FF is set as the default browser on the local PC, the local FF would pass that link over to FFP which is already running. This is FF's behavior. The newer versions should still work this way... but may not if the local FF is 1.5. I haven't tested this extensively.
A new extension that allows you to link to FFP from TBP is coming soon.
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I am running 1.5.0.8. I downgraded from the v2 that came with PortableApps.
And when I initially installed FFP on my portable drive and launched it for the first time it asked if I wanted to set FF as my default browser even though it was already set as default on my PC. So I clicked yes and after that any links would open on FFP as long as previous window had been open. What ever caused it, it doesn't work anymore. Boo hoo. Thanks for your input John.
It won't work right. If FF is closed, when you click a link in another program and open FF, it will use a local profile on your PC... not your portable profile. You should not set FF to be the default browser within FFP.
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use a tool like DefaultMyFFP.
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... all of this talk about default browsers is all good and well but my original point was that NOTHING opens when I click a link in TBP.
Thanks rmccue I'll check it out.
TBP uses default. It does exactly the same thing as TB does. It passes an "open this link" command to the OS. If nothing happens, it's a Windows configuration error.
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The part that tells Windows what to open is corrupted or misconfigured.
Now that I think of it, that's probably what you meant
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
(Tom Lehrer)
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Sorry for the delay in replying - I have been out of town.
Ok this is what's been happening:
NOTE: I have not installed the DMFFP that rmccue suggested.
The other day I reset my default browser to be FF standard via FF standard Options. I then did the same thing in my FFP Options. Links then opened out of TBP in FF standard as you say they should. I don't remember if I had a FFP window open at the time. I didn't bother checking - I was just happy to have anything at all open when I clicked a TBP link
But...I have just now started my computer. At the end of the startup I was notified that a software I have installed needed to be registered. I clicked the link to go to the registration page and a FF standard window opened as expected. That prompted me to close it and open a FFP window to come and check this forum to see what other suggestions you guys might have had.
Then I noticed in my system tray an alert icon for my Windows Defender software. I double clicked the icon and Windows Defender opened and told me there was a new version of the software available. I clicked the "Download" link and a FFP window opened (not a FF standard window and not the FFP window I already had open) and took me to the update page.
To check and see if this would also happen in TBP (as I have said all along) I have just now clicked a link in TBP and another FFP window has opened.
So as to why this is happening when it's not supposed to I don't know. I shall leave that up to you techies to figure out if you want. I'm not a techie at all - just someone who wanted her links to come back and now I'm doubly happy that once again it's FFP.
ANOTHER NOTE: The links open in FFP only if there is already a FFP window open.
Thanks for all your comments and assistance.
At no point should you be setting Firefox as your default browser while you're running the installation of Firefox within Firefox Portable. It does *NOT* work. It will set the copy of FF in there as your default using your locally-installed profile (or a blank one), it will NOT set FFP as your default profile. I've already stated this in this very thread. So, please stop doing it and asking why it doesn't work as you expect.
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I believe that DMFFP is the only program which sets it correctly. As John mention, don't set it from FFP.
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Ryan McCue
Cube Games
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
(Tom Lehrer)
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Excuse me John, I am NOT continually "doing it and asking why it doesn't work as you expect". I did ask for help in the first post to ask why it had stopped. Since then all I've done is respond to your posts and EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT HAPPENS. I have no compaints! I haven't asked for anymore help! Now it is working again as I, that is me not you, want it to and that surely is all that matters. I'm rapt it's doing it even if it's not supposed to.