@geekbling65: ( https://portableapps.com/comment/228859#comment-228859 )
Any room under that rock? I was excited when saw the start of that thread, albeit four years old. Sad to see it fall into disarray with the weenie-goober-ramblings.
I am in need of a portable version of firefox that will run netflix on our home theatre laptop. It is an old Lenovo Thinkpad now running FireFox 53 on Ubuntu 14.04LTS-x64, but for the life of me I cannot get Netflix to run.
My desktop (also same Ubuntu etc) runs FFx53 fine but it shows the "Widevine" plug in installed. I cannot find a way to install widevine on the thinkpad and it does **not** install on demand as the FFx website wiki suggests. A portable version would solve this dilemma immediately? No?
Sooooooo, John T. Haller, (the apparent prime mover) is our movie watching, cord cutting family in for some happy enlightenment?
Thanks.
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I don't personally have time to work on this. I mostly use Linux via SSH when working on PortableApps.com server stuff. I don't run it on the desktop.
You can make Firefox semi-portable on Linux with the -profile command switch. A .sh containing:
./pathto/firefox/run-mozilla.sh ./pathto/firefox/firefox-bin -profile ./Data/profile
or similar would do the trick.
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