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portable firefox acnnot run because drive is read only.

Submitted by ackbar11 on December 29, 2008 - 9:26pm

Whenever I run FF portable it comes up with a little message saying my flash drive is read only, so it has to put some temporary files on the local HDD. I don't think my flash drive is R-O because I can create and edit files on it but FF portable insists it is...

How can I fix this?

Using the same configurations in Portable Firefox 2 and 3

Submitted by ConceitArturo on December 29, 2008 - 10:39am

it so happens, that Mozilla are a bunch of moronic stubborn jackasses when it comes to resizing pictures. I happen to NEED to resize without any anti-aliasing functions, while they insist that blurring images is the only way to go and simply wont even give me any other option.

On to the topic at hand, this forces me to roll back to Firefox2. How do I pass all of my bookmarks and settings back to Portable Firefox2? I tried just copy/pasting all of the folders inside "data" but the bookmarks, security configuration, and saved username/passwords were missing. What to do?

Export settings

Submitted by mtita on December 29, 2008 - 8:10am

I would like to move my settings from Firefox installed in vista to Firefox Portable but I've not been able to do it with the instructions i found in the FAQs, this is due the fact that firefox in vista has different folders than in xp.
Does someone know what can I do?
Thanks

FF 3.0.5 Malware Database size?

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Submitted by Tim Clark on December 27, 2008 - 6:33pm

I'm thinking something may have changed since the first releases of FF3

Early reports were that the Malware Database was about 52MB fairly consistently.

In my using of FFP3.0.5 I am seeing , and others are reporting, much less. About 17-18 MB when both "attack sites" and "forgery" are selected .

tool->options->security 2nd and 3rd check boxes

Could folks who have those setting on give some feed back.
Something may have changed, and if so we should know.
It would be good news if they have found a way to make it smaller

[edit:]
file is located here:

PFF 3.1 Beta 2 - Stops Downloading After Crash

Submitted by EwanG on December 25, 2008 - 5:00pm

Possibly the weirdest error I've ever seen. I was closing PFF 3.1 beta 2 last night, and it crashed upon closing for no discernible reason. Since that crash, however, whenever I try to download something, I get an error that it can't find the "part" file in the Temp directory on my local hard drive. I cleaned that out just in case, but that didn't fix anything. In fact, I was surprised to see it was trying to use my local harddrive.

Any thoughts on fixes short of uninstall and reinstall? Known bug?

How to create a second profile in portable firefox?

Submitted by SJK71 on December 24, 2008 - 10:29am

Hi there!
I would like to use at portable firefox the profile of my "normal" firefox I use on my PC and backed up there with the add-on FEBE. To restore it with FEBE in portable firefox I have to create a second profile. I tried it with the profile manager using the "run-application" of my WinXP (firefox.exe -profilemanager), but I could not "reach" the portable firefox this way to create a second profile there.
How does it work?

(I hope I have expressed my problem in an understandable way, as I'm not a native english speaker...)

Thanks so far!

Portable Firefox 3.1 beta 2 addon list became empty

Submitted by teas on December 22, 2008 - 10:12am

after upgrade ff3.1 b1 portal to portable beta2, all item under "Add-ons" became empty. pls check this for detail :http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20081222230008ky3.jpg

addon list:
Adblock Plus 1.0
Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper 1.0.5
Auto Copy 0.9.7 [DISABLED]
BlockSite 0.7.1 [DISABLED]
CustomizeGoogle 0.76
Easy DragToGo 1.1.2.2
FlashGot 1.1.6
Forecastbar Enhanced 0.9.6 [DISABLED]
FoxyProxy 2.8.9
IE Tab 1.5.20081203
MediaWrap 0.1.7.3 [DISABLED]
Menu Editor 1.2.6 [DISABLED]
Mouse Gestures Redox 2.0.3 [DISABLED]
Nightly Tester Tools 2.0.2
NoScript 1.8.7.6

FFP 305 - Personal prefs as default prefs

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Submitted by portable_sunray on December 22, 2008 - 6:26am

Normally I open FFP 305 by clicking on the start icon and enjoy my own settings.

Sometimes I open FFP lazily by clicking on a HTML file and get the FFP with the default settings (not bad either, but...).

Is there a way to define my personal settings as default settings?

PS: I hope it is not a RTFM Q. I tried to find a solution by looking through the available infos. Meanwhile I understand how to create different profiles. Just copying the files into the default folder wouldn't work.

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