I have built an emergency recovery boot disk using MAKE PE3 - 48 and P Start to enable the use of portable programs after booting into the recovery environment. I have successfully used Firefox Portable up to and including version 28.
All Portable versions since then up to the latest Version 35 will not start. All display the error that they cannot load XPCOM.
These same Firefox portable versions will, however, start in the normal Windows 7 Ultimate environment on all of my computers, however, in the MAKE PE 3 environment, on the same device, they will not.
Is ther a reason for this that can be fixed?
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I'm sorry but we do not support Firefox Portable in a PE environment. It may have sometimes worked in some PE environments and not at other times, but it's never been something we support or ever tested for.
PE is not a real full Windows environment. Certain shortcuts and kludges are taken to get it working. As you've noted, programs that work perfectly fine in actual Windows fail in PE. So random stuff will simply not work. In this case, it's Firefox itself that is failing, not any of our components (FirefoxPortable.exe in this case). Understanding why it won't work requires digging into the depths of the specific PE environment and figuring out which Windows components that Firefox utilizes aren't working right which is something we don't have the resources for.
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John,
Thank you for your response.
I suspected that your comments were, in fact, the case, however, I was hoping that perhaps someone else may have suffered the same problem and maybe had a fix for it.
I guess time will tell.
Regards,
Sherro