Hello,
I am an advanced user (IT pro). My question is simple : I have just downloaded FirefoxPortable v19. I do not want it to access other places than its installation folder in any way. Using Windows 8 Pro x64.
How can I reach this goal ? Thank you for your help and have a nice W.E.
The underlying issue : I also run Waterfox portable v16 and I've encountered incidents when using both alternatively as if they share some files that they should not.
a+, 
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Waterfox is Firefox just with different branding. It's just the buggy Firefox 64-bit builds with some compilation options and a different name (due to trademark policy), so it uses all the exact same resources as Firefox itself. So, you're trying to run two copies of Firefox at the same time, which does not work well. You can use the MultipleInstances option as set forth in the readme.txt, but that will have its own issues (will leave some files behind, can't run the browser from other apps or double-clicking on files, etc).
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Hello John,
Thank you for the answer which is if I understood well "You cannot". I am a bit confused to see that the only way to get a real portable firefox would be to run it in a sandbox software (like sandboxie).
In a glorious past I would have modified a .ini file and Firefox would have stopped gathering files from my hard drive, but today everything seems linked together. Even portableapps is facebooked, googled and pinterested.
a+,
-=Finiderire=-
Filter on : |http://portableapps.com/sites/all/themes/portableappsnew/images/*.png
Maybe you could lighten your pictures.
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We need a firefox that operates solely in it's own folder and does outright nothing with the host os. Total disregard for host os status of the firefox installation. I need it for maintaining wifi networks and their config pages. It needs to completely and totally reside and run inside of it's own subfolder.
This is ridiculous. If folks are using firefox portable for security, they aren't secure at all. if ANYTHING AT ALL is written to the local hard drive, we can easily retrieve it.
The fact, or not, of waterfox, or anything else installed should be outright moot.
Any alternatives? Obviously not here.
stubbs
Considering that the host OS has full access to EVERYTHING on every drive you mount, if your concern is anything on the host getting access to your files, you should not connect a USB flash drive to it.
The only way to achieve the kind of protection you'd like is to have a bootable USB drive with a full OS on it. That's the only way to protect your files from a compromised host OS.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!