Hello,
I searched for a answer to my question, but I found not a working solution.
It is possible to start the firefox portable version with a paramter or something else without searching for installed plugins of the Windows operation system. (-no-remote does not work). The best solution would be the use of the .ini file.
This is for me a possibility to have a look on a website with and without plugins.
Thanks for reaction
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Start Firefox ignoring plugins of the running system
March 20, 2023 - 9:29am
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Start Firefox ignoring plugins of the running system
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Plugins (Flash, Java, etc) have been deprecated in Firefox and all major browsers. Are you referring to extensions maybe?
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On my operation system are a Firefox and some Plugins ( Adobe Acrobat, Java (TM) Platform SE 8 U18x, Solverlight) installed. After starting firefox portable all these plugins are seen under Plugins. I can activate or deactivate them. But this is not the case. These Plugins are searched on the operation platform starting Firefox portable and you can find the entries under /firefoxportable/data/profile/pluginreg.dat.
How can I stop the search function starting firefoxportable and get a empty pluginreg.dat. Making it not writetable is no option because the search system generate a pluginreg.dat.tmp.
Maybe there is a solution for a emtpy pluginreg.dat
If it is using plugins, you're using an outdated and insecure version of Firefox. Firefox stopped supporting plugins 5 years ago.
If using an old version of Firefox, it checks specific areas of the local registry for what plugins to load. According to How can I block new plugins from installing on Mozilla browsers (to prevent installation of malicious plugins)? you can "try setting plugin.scan.plid.all to false in about:config. This disables firefox registry-based scanning for new plugins."
If that doesn't work, search around for another option as this old version of Firefox isn't supported by Mozilla or PortableApps.com any longer and a lot of the documentation for deprecated settings like this is no longer available.
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