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Firefox Portable

Not a portable app

Submitted by mfaine on December 21, 2024 - 11:55am

I just started up Firefox portable ESR and noticed that sync wasn't working after further investigation it seems it's respecting group policy and it's writing to the registry. If it's doing that then I don't see what the point of it it? It's not a portable app. It should only write settings locally to the same directory and never to the registry. It should not respect GPO policies, Intune, etc.

Environment variables in FirefoxPortable.ini

Submitted by Hektor_Paris on November 10, 2024 - 12:59pm

Hello,
I wonder if it is possible to use environment variables in path name in the FirefoxPortable.ini file, for instance %username%, %appdata%.
There are several profiles on the family PC and I would like to save each profile datas in the specific %appdata% directory.

I tried to set the "ProfileDirectory=" in the FirefoxPortable.ini file that way :
ProfileDirectory=..\..\..\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\FFdirectoryName\Data\profile
... but it didn't work.

Firefox Portable Developer 132.0 navigation bar is bugged

Submitted by mike406 on October 10, 2024 - 1:09am

After updating to version 132.0 the navigation bar icons reset and swap positions seemingly randomly each time the browser is started. Unsure if it is an issue specific to beta 1 but after installing the full non-portable version to compare, which is currently on 132.0 beta 5 the issue is not happening there. OS is Windows 10 x64.

Screenshot 1 - First run after upgrade: https://gyazo.com/f0632ddea77e555a825b391f7724fcc2

urgent! saving firefox session before update?

Submitted by UpdateInformer on October 3, 2024 - 12:17pm

hi all,
how do firefox saves sessions before closing or update?
which function or setting is for that?
am i the first have to save session?
EDIT:
seems you can only save as bookmarks, what a crap!
EDIT:
the auto-update/intern update would also save traffic here.
hope this one here can help both, portableappa and community!
if we solve this issue.
million thanx!

Firefox for Windows 7/8 will be available with new versions even after 2025

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Submitted by c627627 on October 1, 2024 - 6:00pm

Could we please not abandon Firefox 115 ESR?

New version Firefox 115.16.0 ESR was just released today, and updates will officially continue well into 2025, with Mozilla saying they may be open to go further than 2025, given that hundreds of millions of machines are still using Windows 7/8, and they will obviously never get updated, since they don't have hardware requirements for Windows 11, and Windows 10 End of Life will be in 2025.

So kindly reconsider abandoning Firefox 115 ESR for Win 7/8 at portableapps?

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