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degiorgi
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Traces left by Portable Firefox 5.0

I`m running Portable FireFox 5.0 (Version 4.0 > update to 5.0) under windows 7.
It is not installed on a pendrive but in partition E: of harddisk.
There are a lot of traces left in System partition C:
C:\Users\"username"\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\995lnza3.default\ (Files and folders)
C:\Users\"username"\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox (Files and folders)

The question is: Can I avoid this?
What happens if I delete all these files and folders?

Thank you. !!

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Are you sure you don't have Firefox installed locally and that is what is placing those files there? Are you sure you're only running FirefoxPortable.exe and *never* running firefox.exe directly and not associating firefox.exe with html files or the like? Are you sure you're letting Firefox Portable close properly before checking for files left behind?

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help received from JTH

Incredible fast and precise. Thank you very much!!. I dont have Firefox locally.
When I check for files left, Firefox is properly closed.
I am sure of every one of your tips except one. I have an association of firefox.exe with htm and html files. I will find how to undo this association and see what happens.
As an additional info, I have an exactly similar problem with Thunderbird 5 port.
Tanks four you help.

Windows 7 Ultimate & Windows XP SP3

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Don't associate

If you associate firefox.exe with those files, it won't run it portably. Same goes with Thunderbird; if you always run it from ThunderbirdPortable.exe, you won't have any problems. But if you register Thunderbird directly in any way, it'll break portability.

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thanking help.. But

But I allready made the mistake of associate both, Firefox an Thunderbird.
The big question is if there is any way to go back without reinstalling my PC.

Windows 7 Ultimate & Windows XP SP3

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