Firefox Portable 3.5.3
When Mozilla Crash Reporter is told to restart Firefox, it restarts it in non-portable mode.
New: Kanri (Oct 9, '24), Platform 29.5.3 (Jun 27, '24)
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Do you mean that it launches the local version?
I've never had that problem. (and I always crash firefox)
I also have this problem, crash -> crash reporter dialog -> Restart Firefox then it open a non-portable Firefox and create Profile, crash reporter for non-portable Firefox in "C:\Documents and Settings\********\Application Data\Mozilla"
Anyone help me solve this problem, thank so much!
I'm using Firefox Portable 6.0.2, do I need to compeletely disable Crash Reporter in application.ini ?
Is your copy of FireFoxPortable set to allow multiple instances?
(This is set as "
AllowMultipleInstances=True" under[FirefoxPortable]inX:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.ini)If so, Firefox Portable's launcher (
FirefoxPortable.exe) does not stay open, thus some non-personal data gets left behind on the machine, and FireFox Restarts will run firefox.exe directly without Portablizing it.Note: John T Haller states in the forums on a semi-regular basis that FireFox's "AllowMultipleInstances" feature is meant for Developer's only, and is not a supported way to run FireFox, let alone FireFox Portable.
~3D1T0R
this happens even with AllowMultipleInstances=False
I'm sorry, I don't know another simple solution; I guess it could be specific to your Windows or Firefox profile(s), you should check to see if it happens on other computers, or with a clean install of FireFoxPortable (well, mostly clean ;-): you'll need a way to crash it, I think this should work) on your usual computers & others, if this is reliably reproducible with a clean (or mostly clean) profile then this is a Bug and needs fixing, perhaps another member of our community can figure out how to do so; but until it gets fixed, I suggest the following workaround: When the crash-reporter appears, use the "Quit Firefox" button, rather than the "Restart Firefox" button, and manually run it again (after FirefoxPortable.exe has finished it's cleanup, and properly exited.)
~3D1T0R
The launcher has special crash detection. This shouldn't be happening unless something with it broke between releases, which I think is unlikely.