FireFox portable and local hard disk windows user profile folders
Hi,
I'll start off with a simple question: should Firefox portable use only its enclosing drive, not the computers main hard drive for everything it does?
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Hi,
I'll start off with a simple question: should Firefox portable use only its enclosing drive, not the computers main hard drive for everything it does?
I've had a problem - when i upgraded ff portable it crashed without launching. I found out that the problem was caused by the language pack, installed by me in previous version of ff, it is in language section of about:addons.
So the suggestion is - add to your portable unpacker/installer automatic turning off language pack(s), if there're any installed by user.
hi, help me please.
I want to use Mozilla Portable with Java Plug-in 11.45.2 for Mozilla.
will it works if a install it to System disk (C:)?
and if i will copy it to other computer will it works?
Thanks!
Hi there,
I have made various tests with the GNotifier addon.
- When I use an installed version of Firefox -> the notifications are native.
On Win10 TP it will add a new entry in the "New notifications" panel with "E7CF176E110C211B" as the app name.
- When I use the PortableApps version, and the same profile -> it will show the notification using the built-in popup.
Also, I seem to have the same exact issue with Thunderbird by the way.
We need to include (and modify) a browser on a USB that leaves as little trace as possible of its existence. I know there are things that we can't do anything about (like shellbags and prefetch-cache entries) that show something was run, but we're mostly concerned with browser data. The TOR browser bundle claims to have patched a few other things that aren't cache-related (I think). The quote is:
Hello,
I've noticed the FF portable has been slower after version 31. In one of a client's website (I can't post it here) I noticed via the Network tab in the Webdeveloper tool that it always loads a bunch of files (js and css) whereas in the normal FF version and FF portable 31 it only loads 2 (no js or css). Wondering if you have changed any cache settings or anything else that could affect its performance?
Thanks,
Vilmondes
I was happy with the standard Firefox portable (stable release, currently 37.0.1), and I have been using more than 70 extensions in my current profile which can be traced back to 2008. But in the recent several months, I do have too many tabs opened, so it is quite easy to make firefox.exe to occupy more than 2.4GB memory. In this case, the whole browser window will be completely blank without showing anything and CPU usage will blow up. It is quite annoying because I had to kill the process frequently and resume my work every time.
Installed Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 37.0.1 on 04.04.2015, seemingly working just fine BUT going to any Google pages - in my case Google Maps - I find them mirrored, i.e. upside down and back to front. On the 'net this seems a Crome-related thing, so has anyone else come across it in Firefox?
Rolling back to previous version /36.0.4) the Google pages displays just fine.
Dear All,
Thanks for your amazing work, just like my title said:
I try to test whether local firefox exist or not, if exist, then start local version firefox with portable profile. if not, then start the portable version firefox with portable profile.
Is anyone know?
Thanks