I don't know what's going on.
In the portable apps folder with firefox there are actually 2 folders with a plugins_readme file that says "Put your plugins here". One is in data/plugins and the other is in app/defaultdata/plugins
So I started to move 2 files to data/plugins to get the flash player working. And I guess it made it work.
And when I browsed google earth it also required a plugin, and on the C drive in the installed firefox there I found the plugin and move it, so that also worked.
There were lots of other plugins and so I moved them too.
But ever since that I've been giving notifications on the https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ about plugins that need to be updated.
So I updated the flashplayer, it worked but only if I run the updatefile from the portable drive. And the plugincheckpage would then showed it as updated but only until next time I connected the portable to another computer.
So I erased everything in the plugins directories, but the flash player still worked. And there were still plugins who needed updating on the updatepagecheck. I even erased the commonfiles with java, but it's still there some how.
So I installed a new firefox in the portableapps/firefox/apps/firefox as one suggested and it seemed to update everything. Until I connected the portable drive to another computer.
But last time I updated the flash driver it was v.11 now it was back to v.10. So what is going on?
Firefox (and Portable) will scan several locations for plugins. You can modify that behavior so that it looks to the install folders only. Here's a Mozilla knowledge base article about it:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin_scanning
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