So i used this http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/register-firefox-portable-with-default... to set my portable firefox as the default application for links etc. The problem i'm having, is when i try clicking a link inside my email, i get the message:
"Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."
Now is there any way i can get these links to just open in a new tab inside my alrwdy running firefox??
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This happens all the time on a computer with regular (non-portable) Firefox and just started to happen now on another computer. This one has a portable FF on the hard drive that worked great until v.3.5.7, and now gets the same error you described half the time.
This is the official thread at Mozilla support:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+is+already+running+but+is+no...
This is a sub-thread that's related. I'll try the "disable hyperthreading" fix and see what happens.
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+hangs?bl=n&s=%22Firefox%20is...
Your comment was a few months old. Did you get any improvement out of FF since that time?
It didn't take long for the "Disable Hyperthreading" attempt to fail. At least on Vista x64 that just doesn't cut it. I'm trying the "disable read-only" to see if that improves matters. The main issue is that the browser fails only half the time and it isn't always repeatable. I'll see how this goes.
Did you try and ask the guy who made the program if he knows a fix?
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I thought this forum would be the place to reach that guy
He's not affiliated with PortableApps.com
However, you can reach him through his contact page: http://www.winhelponline.com/pages/Contact-Us.html
I sent a message. Hopefully this will help. I also tried the "undo read only for everything in the directory" tactic and that didn't work either. We'll see what happens when he responds.