I've noticed that the Places feature to autocomplete when typing in the address bar doesn't work in the portable version. A little testing revealed that this is because history is disabled. I think that the core issue is a Mozilla one and have filed a bug. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406606)
What I'm wondering about is whether the new SQLite backend might make it generally acceptable to leave history turned on. To my great joy, editing bookmarks is now much faster, presumably because Fx is only updating a row in a database instead of rewriting an entire file. I'd expect the same to be true of history. The improved performance should also mean less drive wear.
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History is left enabled in 3.0b1 and has been in the 2.x series of Firefox Portable for a while now
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Yes, but if we updated over an older version where it was disabled wasn't the setting kept?
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
Upgrades don't touch your personal settings unless it needs to do something for compatibility.
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There's no places menu on the bookmark bar in the portable version, right? I can't find it.