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FireFox Portable won't start generally

Hey there,

Following configuration:
- Windows 7 x64 (no admin rights)
- tried 2 different USB flash drives
- PortableApps app is up to date
- tried to install via app and manually

However FireFox does not start. No splash screen, nothing.
With one exception: At the end of the installation process, when you say start FireFox right away. That worked. Nothing else.

Where's the problem?

Thanks in advance.

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How

are you launching it?

Do you use menu?

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yes.

yes.
when I'm launching the .exe directly it says "restrictions - the process has been cancelled due to restrictions on the cmputer"

what restrictions culd that be? all the other apps are running perfectly.

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Ok

First off you should be running the launcher,exe from within the root directory of the Firefox Portable folder not the one in the aps directory.
Second is this a home pc? Work PC? University PC?

What Antivirus is the system running?

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Yes, I tried the ..

Yes, I tried the ..\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe

This is a work PC, we have Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 as Antivirus.

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Try

Deleting the Data folder in root of Portableapps/FirefoxPortable and then running? Perhaps you have added an extension that work is blocking?

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The

data folder is empty as FF never even started, so I couldn't install anything.

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Blocked

That means either FirefoxPortable.exe of firefox.exe has been specifically blocked by your place of business, likely within Endpoint.

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Well

it seems to be something like that.
But I cannot imagine why our admin should block firefox. Every other app is running.
And I can't find an entry in Kaspersky that it blocked FF (forbidden: 0).

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