It's me again...
As I understand the FP Live copies all the necessary files to the hard disk. On computers with a slow CD-ROM drive this takes some time. The launcher does this every time the Firefox Portable is started even if I don't delete the files on the HDD. I wonder if there is a chance to let the launcher only copy the files from CD to HDD which are different or are missing on HDD. I looked around in the nsi file and started to read the documentation of NSIS but found nothing. Has anyone of you an idea how to make this?
While looking around in the nsi file I came to lines 313 and 314 which are
CopyFiles /SILENT $PLUGINSDIRECTORY\*.* $TEMP\${NAME}\plugins
StrCpy $PROFILEDIRECTORY $TEMP\${NAME}\profile
Is line 314 correct or should it be
CopyFiles /SILENT $PLUGINSDIRECTORY\*.* $TEMP\${NAME}\plugins
StrCpy $PLUGINSDIRECTORY $TEMP\${NAME}\plugins
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and line 314 should really be
"StrCpy $PLUGINSDIRECTORY $TEMP\${NAME}\plugins"
Dunno about the live mode question though (never used it off cd).
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It has to clean up after itself on exit. And it can't leave files behind. So, that's how long it takes to start. It's not the most useful of features to be able to run it off CD, so it's not something you'd use daily or as a primary browser. It's useful for specific things like distributing webpages/sites on a CD with a browswer built in or trying out Firefox without installing it.
On the bug, yes it's a bug. But it doesn't actually affect anything since the plugins dir will point to the one on the CD (which does have all the plugins in it) and it doesn't need to be writable... so everything still works.
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