Hello guys,
I am "playing" with Portable Firefox so we can make an easy solution for on our network. Let's say I want the following situation:
- C:\ volume (local): Firefox Portable executables
- D:\ volume (network mapping): Firefox profile
I already tried this with a FirefoxPortable.ini with the following settings:
[FirefoxPortable]
FirefoxDirectory=App\firefox
ProfileDirectory=D:\Firefox
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
PluginsDirectory=Data\plugins
FirefoxExecutable=firefox.exe
AdditionalParameters=
LocalHomepage=
DisableSplashScreen=false
AllowMultipleInstances=false
DisableIntelligentStart=false
SkipCompregFix=false
RunLocally=false
Problem is that he just creates a folder called "D" in the FirefoxPortable root. Is my idea possible? Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Jasper
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No, this isn't possible. It's not intended to be used that way. Incidentally, most of those options will be vanishing soon, making the launcher a lot simpler. All our apps are narrowing down their customisability, in areas where it's not really necessary. The generic launcher for all apps (almost here...) will help us a lot in achieving this.
For a more technical reason as to why it won't work, all those paths are relative to $EXEDIR, the directory in which FirefoxPortable.exe is. The way it works is just by sticking "$EXEDIR\" onto the start of it - so you'll have a path like C:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\D:\Firefox, and the : will get removed somewhere as it's a bad character, but in other places it may just break things.
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