Hello,
for a few years I'm using portable Firefox on shared computers like at work, and to protect my settings and so on I'm using the addon "Startup master" which adds an password request before FF startup.
Problem1: it's an old addon type which is not supportet by FF quantum. No problem, I'm using FF 56.0 which is the last one with support for old addon type
Problem2: no, with the FF bug of old certificate which deactivates most addons (like uBlock Origin and Ghostery which I strongly need to surf the web stress-free) it seems that I can't use the FF v56.0 anymore because to fix the bug you have to update to the actial FF.
So the question:
is there any other portable browser out there which
- can manage FF addons (just because I'm used to it for long time)
- has startup-protection with password
- has no certificates bug
- runs on Windows with or without portable apps platform
Thanks and regards
Stefan
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It might well be possible to fix your FF 56.0 without too much difficulty. Instructions are in this webpage: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/ffu/armagadd-on_2_0.html
That said, I would really think you would be much better just saying well your FF 56.0 has seen its day now and upgrade to the latest FF. The latest is pretty good and by degrees addons are slowly coming back to it. In your post you say that if you can't stick with FF 56.0 then you'll move to another browser -- which would likely mean you'll lose the addon functionality you like anyway, so why not just stick with FF and install the latest version (it's by far the best mainstream browser out there, I think).
EDIT: You could if you really, really want to have FF password protected at some point during launch just put it in a VeraCrypt container. If you were doing that you would have to launch VeraCrypt, select the VeraCrypt container you want mounted as a drive, enter your password for that container, then launch FirefoxPortable.exe as you normally would. It would be a workable password protected FF for you though I would think that when setting up the VeraCrypt container for FF it would be best to make it a dynamic volume so that it can allow it to grow dynamically for FF Portable saving stuff to disk. There would other permutations of ways of managing what to encrypt, and mount, via Veracrypt, for example you just protect your Firefox Portable Profile folder, but in doing that you would need to edit the FirefoxPortableSettings.ini in the settings folder to match whatever drive letter you mounted the encrypted Profile container as.
Use Portable Apps on both Flash Drive and HDD/SSD.
thanks for the link,
I will try this next time at work. I hope this works, because the alternative with veracrypt will not - no admin rights. And as I know the "just-in-time" encryption feature from tools like veracrypt needs some driver installation.
But I will see if this fix works and post the answer here.
Thanks
works - wohooo, thank you very much
Add the following uc.js file to firefox's chrome dir
https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/blob/master/chrome/mast...
Instructions on how to add support for uc.js
https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/7jj3uy/how_to_add_userchrom...
This opens a whole world of customisations to Firefox