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Web page links in email - Portable TB 1.5 vs. 2.0

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EVBrown
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Web page links in email - Portable TB 1.5 vs. 2.0

I have held off upgrading to Portable TB 2.0 until just recently. Portable TB 1.5 was working fine, so I figured if it was not broke, don't fix it. I am testing out 2.0.0.6 and am troubled by different behavior. I have separate directories, so I can test out both. Here is what I observe.

TB 1.5
When I click on a web page link in an email, it opens my Portable Firefox, switches to the FF application and loads the appropriate page.

TB 2.0
When I click on the same link, it does not open the browser. If the browser is already running, it will load the requested page, but the focus remains on TB. I have to manually switch to Firefox.

Is this a 'working as designed' function of TB 2? Is there a work around to get TB 2.0 to work the way I am used to with TB 1.5.

Thanks,

8-) Ed

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All TB has ever done is pass it off to the OS saying open this URL. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. If you have it doing anything else, it's unsupported. Incidentally, setting Firefox Portable as your default browser is also unsupported.

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John, I love your apps and

John,

I love your apps and thank you for all your hard work!

I identified the problem. I also had been with FF portable 1.5 and made the switch to FF portable 2.0.0.6. Apparently, when I started out with the new FF, something was slightly off in my Tab Mix plus settings. I have played with the Tab Mix Plus settings, and I now have everything as before. When I click on web links in my email, it now opens FF portable and loads the requested page.

Thanks again.

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