I recently installed the latest FFPE update and when I loaded my FF, it installed the updates as usual. The update seemed successful but FF never loaded. So, I tried again and it still won't load. I even restarted the machine and reinserted my SanDisk Cruzer, but no luck. I tried to open it in Safe Mode using the extension:
G:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe -safe-mode
G is the right location of my drive.
The Portable Firefox screen loads and nothing happens. Any suggestions? This is awfully confusing!
PS: Right now I'm using IE. And it's the latest, clunkiest version yet! I need my FF back!
Visit the Community page
Join our forums
Subscribe to our email newsletter
Subscribe with RSS
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on LinkedIn
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Mastodon
Follow us on BlueSky
I had checked the FAQs but missed the part where John explained that you must have at least 35MB of free space on the drive. I installed FFPE on my Cruzer on top of the old one and now it's working fine. Now my question is, how does that work? How are my settings preserved and not overwritten?
I have some hunches but I'm not totally sure how this worked. Whatever the answer may be, and please feel free to explain, it's really helpful!
How I love these PAs!
here support a featuer callded "in-place-updates".
That means that all your persomal data will be preserved if you update it.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
They are called in-place updates.
The technical reason is that, when you extract ("install") a portable app, the Data folder (and/or subfolders) is(/are) empty. When you run the launcher for the first time, it either lets the program create default settings or it copies them from App\DefaultData. Therefore, there's no way that it can be overwritten.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
That makes sense and is good to know.
Thanks for the responses guys.