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Firefox + Flash - cleanup after exit

Hey guys,

I wanted my copy of PortableFirefox to cleanup the leftovers of Flash when quitting Firefox.

According to the launcher.ini documentation I made a FirefoxPortable.ini under FirefoxPortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher and inserted

[DirectoriesCleanupForce]
1=%APPDATA%\Roaming\Macromedia
2=%APPDATA%\Local\Macromedia

However it's not working and the Macromedia folders are still sitting there after I quit Firefox...

Any suggestions?

thanks

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APPDATA

The issue you're having is with "%APPDATA%" and what it actually stands for. I had this issue earlier on myself, so hopefully this helps you too. %APPDATA% stands for AppData\Roaming and %LOCALAPPDATA% stands for AppData\Local. So for the code you have, you should actually write:

[DirectoriesCleanupForce]
1=%APPDATA%\Macromedia
2=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Macromedia

Hope this helps!

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nope

Firefox does nor use the pa.c launcher. these entries have no effect.

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so is there any way to

so is there any way to implement the above functionality?

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Nope

Flash is designed to be a local installation and is shared amongst lots of apps. Having a browser personally portablize it would be awful.

That said, we will be introducing a way to do it at the platform level without ruining the existing local data that the above PAL entries would do (which would lose people's progress in games, settings in web apps, etc).

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Great news John. When will

Great news John. When will this functionality be introduced?

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Soon-ish

It's on the big ole list of features to add. I'm kind of laid up so I've been unable to do the platform work I'd like as of late. I still haven't arranged the room so I can sit at the desk yet so all the work I've done the last 3 weeks is via laptop on the couch remoted in to the main production box.

I'll be making a progress announcement in the coming days along with some platform progress details, so I'll be able to tell you better then. It's actually a pretty basic bit of code to just back up what's there, put the portable copy in on start and then copy our portable stuff out and restore what was there on exit (ala PAL with DirectoriesMove).

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hey john, did you already

hey john,

did you already post the announcement? I couldn't find it - please point me towards it. Thanks a lot

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