Firefox Portable

I had set my previous version of portable FF (whichever that was before the 3.5.6 update) NOT to update automatically but it automatically updated this morning.

That bothers me because of this message from this web page:

https://portableapps.com/forums/support/firefox_portable/faq

"The Mozilla Software Updater no longer correctly updates secondary, standalone and portable versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, etc."

Hello,

Five minutes before I wrote this sentence, I updated my Firefox to 3.5.6. When I opened it for the second time, it basically asked me if I wanted to copy Firefox temporarily to the hard drive, because it had read-only files. I said "no" and it said Firefox had to close. After that, its working as if nothing ever happened...

Should I be concerned with this message or is it irrelevant?

We have a situation where we'd like to deploy a whole bunch of copies of portable FF to USB sticks, each with the same set of customizations preset (certain modules added, config settings changed, etc.). Is it possible to roll one's own portable FF installer with this stuff already done? If so, what's the easiest way to do it?

I'm using FF 3.5.5 Portable, syncing it between two computers with a flash drive. When I transfer FF from one computer to another, I delete the previous Firefox folder - that could be important.
Anyway, some of my addons get screwed up. Several (CS Lite, JSView, ColorZilla, and a few others) don't correctly recognize their version #s - FF says they "Aren't compatible with Firefox 3.5.5", so I have to hit "Find updates" to make FF apply a "compatibility update". This happens every time I move FF from one computer to another...

Where is this in the portable version? I am trying to erase the cache to reduce space on my thumb drive.
"Mozilla Firefox stores the saved files to the folder “Cache”, which you can find under the profile folder (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\\). You can safely erase that folder when Firefox is not running."

Does deleting the places.sqlite and cookies.sqlite do anything in portable FF? This is also recommended to the standard install. Doesn/t places.sqlite hold your profile?

Hello,
I'm in a unique position, it seems.
My company has restrictions on the locally installed FF, therefore many of us run FF portable. Our network admin will not allow us to run programs from network shares (going so far as to delete *.exe from our network shares, regularly), and USB drive use is restricted, so we install to our desktops. Network admin is requesting that we descrease the size of our roaming profiles as well.

Ok, when you run it the first time it saves your settings.

But since Windows 7 sees the exe as an installer (NSIS) it will create a new profile for this application.

And, when you close it, and reopen it - it will link to the new profile..

Right click on EXE for both Thunderbird and Firefox portable.

Goto troubleshoot compatability, and choose Windows XP SP3 - then save the settings for the exe forever.

Create a shortcut and put it on your desktop.

Both programs now load your portable profile!

When I follow and download flash from portableapps website, it only has a link to an OLD flash for firefox.

Where can I download the LATEST version Flash for portableapps?

This link only has a link to an OLD flash:

https://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#plugins

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer...

Hi,

I wonder if it's possible to make mirc open the urls in firefox portable when I click them?

I use both in my not-portable hard drive

Thanks!

Can someone update the information in above mentioned section?

Since ages you can't choose in the Shockwave installer which browser you want to install it in, because it bluntly installs itself within Windows.

Installing Flash Player via the XPI doesn't seem to work anymore either. It used to before but now it's complaining about a missing install script or something like that (error 204).
It might be something missing in a previous install, I don't know for sure at the moment.