Is this a limitation of the portable version of Firefox?
Using FF2, Win XP Pro SP2
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This is a limitation.
If you click on a html file (or any other file), Windows checks the registry to know what program it should use to open it. Becasue portable Apps arent registered there, it will always use an installed programm and never the portable one. None of the Apps you can get here can be opened by clicking on a file.
There is a programm here in the beta forums that emulates portable file associations but I havent used it and unfortunately dont even know its name.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I am moving to FF from Opera, and intend to use PFF as a means of having a browser that doesn't need reinstalling every time I reinstall the OS, something I do quite often. Therefore it doesn't matter that FF is registered as the default browser. In fact, in my case, it's desirable.
I found the way to get it working as I want was by altering the path in the profiles.ini, that was created in the %appfolder%, to point to the PFF profile folder. There may be other, better, ways of doing this, but for the time being this does exactly what I need it to do.
Thanks.
Normally you should NEVER register a portable App as standard.
Because it registers firefox.exe and not FirerfoxPortable.exe and thus uses the profile in the standard location (C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.???\) and NOT the portable one. So it doesn't really matter what you use and I would use the installed version and just back up the profile folder under C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.???\ and copy it to the new install.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate