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Multiple Home pages?

Submitted by Aurock on July 22, 2006 - 5:57pm

More of a firefox question than portable firefox specific, but can you have multiple home pages open at browser launch? I know with opera, you can save a session of however many pages, and when you open the browser, it will open those pages in seperate tabs.

Is there any way to do this in firefox?

Embedded Virus?

Submitted by LordBill on July 21, 2006 - 9:50pm

I recently downloaded and started using portable firefox. I was very happy with it, so I loaded it onto a larger flash drive for actual travel use.

On the second drive, after reformatting and installing portableFF, when I launched the app my AntiVirus scanner shows the following alert:

Virus&Spy Protection has detected adaware.maxifiles..

From the Anti-virus website:

Maxifiles.com distributes spyware called Director. It runs hidden from the user and installs in a way to appear to be part of the operating system.

So I wiped the drive again, downloaded PFF from a different mirror, re-insatlled it, and get the same warning.

lost extension andd themes ...

Submitted by telecofr on July 21, 2006 - 4:05am

Hello,

sorry, but I'm not very good in english.

Yesterday, when I use portablefirefox on my pc, no problem.
And this morning, at office, I connect my usb key with portablefirefox and when I start portablefirefox, there isn't no more extensions and themes...
I don't modify my repertory "portablefirefox", and yesterday, in office, portablefirefox were ok with extensions and themes.

I try to install again extensions but after restart portablefirefox, the extension say: restart firefox to install extension ??!!??

I must install again portablefirefox at the begin ??

Thank you for your help !

extensions don't shpw up

Submitted by joshkolb on July 20, 2006 - 5:08pm

I copied my firefox profile to portable firefox and now i cannot get any of the extensions to work when i load portable firefox on my jumpdrive. i can, however, get everything to work if i copy the whole portable firefox folder to a harddrive and run the program from there. on the umpdrive, firefox either doesn't open or opens with no extensions usable. does anyone have any suggestions or must i copy portablefirefox to and from a computer each time i use it? could it be my jumpdrive? it's only 64mb and kind of old. i don't think that should be an issue though. thanks

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Submitted by p2bc on July 20, 2006 - 12:13pm

I am using a portable Hard Drive, which has both Firefox and Thunderbird on it. They are installed in their reprected folders. (/program files/Firefox & /program files/Thunderbird)

I was wondering if there is a way to link the mail icon on the portable Firefox to link to the Thunderbird e-mail software, rather than the default one of the pc I am working on.

Thanks in advance.

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