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FF 3.0.3 doesn't open to my home page

Since I've updated to 3.0.3, FF when firing up wants to open two tabs, both of which generate errors. At that point I can click the home button and it opens to my home page. I would think by default it would open to what is set as home, any ideas?

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INI

You probably are using an INI which has an invalid entry in it.

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any idea of which ini I should look at

There are a bunch; the FirefoxPortable.ini I find in the PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Other\Source folder says it is an example. Below is the contents of the .ini file. Also the two tabs are; www.(old).com and www.showlicence.com.

[FirefoxPortable]
FirefoxDirectory=App\firefox
ProfileDirectory=Data\profile
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
PluginsDirectory=Data\plugins
FirefoxExecutable=firefox.exe
AdditionalParameters=
LocalHomepage=
DisableSplashScreen=false
AllowMultipleInstances=false
DisableIntelligentStart=false
SkipCompregFix=false
RunLocally=false

# The above options are explained in the included readme.txt
# This INI file is an example only and is not used unless it is placed as described in the included readme.txt

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Update?

How did you update? You should reinstall FFP 3.0.3 right over your current install. It looks like it's trying to show the Mozilla Firefox license agreement but not passing it properly. Any chance you have it installed to a non-standard path (something other than X:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable)?

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Path is fine but two firefox exes

Regarding the update, I was having trouble with the update, so I downloaded 3.0.3 and installed. What I found was in the X:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable folder there was a FirefoxPortable.exe and FirefoxPortable(old).exe. Interestingly enough if when I double click on the old I get the problem, the other one works fine. Wierdly enough both show the same version in help even though the date modified field for the old said something from 2007. So long story short here, I deleted the old now everything is fine.

Thanks for the help,

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I dont know where the (old) file comes from, but I'd say if it does work with the new/normal FirefoxPortable.exe, everything is ok.

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