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fluppen
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Hey

What would you guys think of the possibility to change the splashscreen?
So you can't only change the theme or the language of your favorite browser,
but also the splashscreen. And maybe there could come a section with the best
splashscreens, maybe a competition.

sorry for my bad English.

fluppen

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sorry for putting it in the

sorry for putting it in the wrong section

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You already can, if you edit

You already can, if you edit the INI file or recompile the script.

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I don't think you can change

I don't think you can change the splash screen by editing PortableFirefox.ini, you can only enable or disable it this way. To change it, you have to edit the JPEG and then recompile the .nsi.

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or you can use another jpeg,

and change it in the sourcecode itself. both would work.

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If nobody minds, I could

If nobody minds, I could whip up something that lets you reference a separate file for a logo without recompiling...

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...

I was actually thinking of doing that myself, until I remembered how much I despise NSIS. Anyway, I'm sure John won't mind. Smile

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Maybe a solution...

Try to download Ressource Hacker at http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/
You'll need to patch the main firefox exectutable.

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No, no, no!

The splash screen isn't in firefox.exe, it's in PortableFirefox.exe. And the way to change it is to download NSIS and recompile PortableFirefox.nsi. I don't think Resource Hacker will work unless NSIS stores the image as a bitmap resource. Even if it does, it's still safer to just recompile the script.

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easier

Thanks guys, but it's too difficult.(didn't check NSIS yet)
Could an update of Portable Firefox/extension do the job?
It would make it much easier to change the splashscreen, if this could be done, would these guys that made portable firefox do this?

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The splashscreen is part of

The splashscreen is part of the launcher, NOT Firefox itself. To change it, just recompile the script after changing the image file in PortableFirefoxCode...

I can see what I can do, but I'm not sure if NSIS supports using an external image as a splashscreen.

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I dont think so...

but in the script, does it extract to the Temp/PluginsDir or not?
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Temp/EXENAME

It extracts to %TEMP%/%EXENAME% so Temp\PortableFirefox in this case.

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So it changes the direction

So it changes the direction of the slash all by itself does it? Wink

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...

I think that may have been a typo. Besides, using a forward slash is standard when referring to paths in a cross-platform context. Most C programs use a forward slash to refer to header files in subdirectories, even in Windows-only code.

...and yes, I know Portable Firefox isn't cross-platform. Smile

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