Firefox Portable

Firefox users never know whether they're going to get a box of chocolates or a box of coal when they upgrade to the latest version of Firefox. Our favorite add-ons may work with the new version, and our favorite sites like youtube may work fine, but if not then we may need to go back to the previous version. But we sure don't want to go back all the way to version 3.x.x. It would really be helpful to keep one or two of the relatively up-to-date versions. If the latest is version 29, then keep version 28 and 27 until version 30 is ready, please.

Good day, John! How do you feel?
Can I please ask you to update appinfo.ini? The [Details] section contains this string:
Homepage=PortableApps.com/go/FirefoxPortable
but this link gives a 404 Page Not Found Error. Maybe you should change it.
Thanks, cheers!

Hi there,
How come we don't hook up portable to work normally with the built in profile manager and profiles.ini? Why don't we also update the userApplicationDir?

These were the reason why I needed to detect if its portable. There really shouldn't be any need to test if portable as it should just be Firefox.

I know what I've changed this morning (UK time)

updated to FF 29.0.1 from here
grabbed the new RegAlyzer from here but I don't think that is the problem

Problem perceived:

FF 29.0.1 running + ClamWin Portable produces system reboot
FF 29.0.1 running + Malwarebytes Free produces system reboot

ClamWin Portable + FF not running, fine
Malwarebytes Free + FF not running, fine

Hi all (and John )

From addon scope, the special path UAppData does not update for FirefoxPortable, is there a way I can calculate this path in my addon.

Special path obtained by: Cc["@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1"].getService(Ci.nsIProperties).get('KEYWORD_HERE', Ci.nsIFile).path;

UAppData is giving me: C:\Users\C71ZQW1\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox
This path is valid IF and only if Firefox was HARD/FULL installed (as in not portable) to anywhere on the C drive.

But I have installed FireefoxPortable to: C:\Users\C71ZQW1\Desktop\FirefoxPortable

Firefox Nightly 32 Update failed and now I get this message when I try to start firefox from bookmark shortcuts.

"Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition cannot be started. You may wish to re-install to fix this issue. (ERROR: firefox.exe could not be found)"

And I get "Access Denied" for certain folder (Other, App\AppInfo, DefaultData\*, etc) into MyApps\FirefoxPortableNightly

Now I cannot update it or even deleting the folder because of access rights

Please help

Thanks

I have installed this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switchy/
and i am able to run two profiles in the same time with it and i have also set "false" for AllowMultipleInstances.

Hi there,
I'm an addon developer and was trying to support portable with my addon.

I need a way to detect if the firefox my profile is running from is portable, can you please help me on how i can do this?

One way I thought of was searching the directory for profiles.ini, but if the user has non-portable firefox installed, and also portable firefox installed, this method will not work.

Thanks

Hi all,
If I open from command line (Win + R):
"FirefoxPortable.exe" -ProfileManager

It launches profile manager and i can make profiles and launch them, is it still portable at this point? I make profile in custom folder on my desktop.

Whenever I do this though Firefox is reading/creating profiles.ini at "C:\Documents and Settings\Noitidart\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox"

this is equivalent to: alert(OS.Constants.Path.userApplicationDataDir);

Is there any way to make it read profiles.ini from my FirefoxPortable directory?

- Can you tell me exactly what parameters are changed compared to default Firefox parameters? So I can replicate this profile by myself.

- Since I have the Private Browsing profile as well if I run the main Firefox I still get the Private Browsing icon for the browser. Kind of misleading. (Would be nice to run both profiles at the same time, though: https://portableapps.com/node/41420 )

- Is Firefox in any way, shape or form more secure or private in your opinion than Chrome? Would be interesting to see a Chrome version of a similar profile. (Esp. if I can run it simultaneously;)