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Bad update - for real this time?

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Submitted by Krof_Gninut on June 23, 2010 - 8:58am

I got a notice telling me to upgrade firefox and restart, but after that, attempting to run it only brings up the preloader graphic. I tried installing firefox on another USB drive to see if it's just the computer, but the newly installed one worked fine.

So is this recoverable? And if it isn't, how can I move my stuff to a new copy of firefox portable without also copying the bug?

Firefox Wont load

Submitted by jlmab23 on June 19, 2010 - 8:29pm

Ok, i've downloaded the portableapps software to my memory stick, however when I open firefox through it, it wont connect to the internet, every time i type something in the URL it keeps coming up with an error page. Why is this? whats going on!!

Thanks in advance

how to make changes to about:config permanent??

Submitted by keschnitzler on June 19, 2010 - 2:03pm

Hi,

to let my ff port spoof a ie explorer (due to restrictions in entersprise net) i have to change several keys in the aout:config of my ff portable. how to make these changes permanent, cause after each relauch of ff i have to do this editing of my config. is there a way to change it permanently???

regs

K-E

Firefox locking drive it isn't on

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Submitted by dagardner on June 17, 2010 - 6:58am

This didn't use to be a problem after I switched from WinXP to Win7, but in the last couple of months, I've started having difficulty ejecting my portable drive (HDD based, rather than flash). I have Win7 x64, so I can't use Unlocker (doesn't have a Win7 x64 version yet), and I just around to finding and trying LockHunter this week.

When I run LockHunter, it says that FireFoxPortable is the application locking the drive, but the weird thing, it doesn't run from that drive! It used to, but it doesn't any more.

Trying to rid ask.com, Keyword.url won't stay changed

Submitted by foxcole on June 15, 2010 - 2:58pm

I am trying to get rid of ask.com -- it comes up as a default page when a URL is not found, to tell me the URL is not found. Plenty of advice all over the Internet suggests editing about:config in a standard install of Firefox and changing the keyword.url value.

Well, I've tried pasting in http://www.google.com/search?q= and I've tried "Reset" on keyword.url, but neither one sticks. Whether or not I restart the browser, as soon as I type in an invalid URL, that cursed ask.com shows up again.

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