Firefox Portable

FF4.0, XP/SP3 (usually) But Win7 seems to be the same. Corasir Flash Voyager GT.

I set my homepage to a specific file in the root of the memory stick.

This worked for a time, and did in FF3.6.13 etc.

However FF4.0 has suddenly decided to change the js file after startup so that the file address is something like:

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "file:///EE:/MYHOME.HTM"););

if I load "file:///E:/MYHOME.HTM" and set it as the homepage and exit, the js file is saved correctly.

https://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#plugins

It seems to me there's some outdated information that could confuse people.

The first suggestion is to "try our easy to use Flash installer for Firefox Portable," but after following the link and reading all the discussion, it sounds like it was a 0.1 release two years ago that no longer works, due to changes in how Adobe handles things.

The next suggestion is "Flash is available as an extension. Just click the link." But that link is now dead.

Hi Guys,

I have tried so many times to convert Outlook contacts in my cell phone. But, I did not get the right solution yet. Please suggest me any idea to convert unlimited contacts to cell phone.

Thanks!

Sam

An example I found where portability mode does not work anymore. I make use of the "restart" addon in Firefox. Having to restart Firefox for performance reasons is something I do all the time, but then once you restart, the launcher is gone, cauzing firefox.exe to work on its own without its supervision. How would you work around that?

[Subject updated by mod JTH]

Hi all

why my google toolbar does not work after the upgrade to FF4?
The buttons simply disappeared.
And if I open the control panel of the toolbar, the bottom buttons "save" and "close" also dont work. i can close the panel just by clicking the top right cross...

andrea

So im using firefox portable and im loving it, however I need the google toolbar but when i use that addon it slows down FFportable A LOT. Everytime a new page or tab opens it pauses for a few seconds and then continues.

Is there an alternative to the google toobar where i can search for stuff on google without going to google itself?
The toolbar that came with firefox portable is alredy being used and I need another one (preferably on the left side like the google toolbar)

Any ideas on what else i can do or maybe some settings on google toolbar to fix it?

I recently installed Firefox Portable 4.0 to a network share. When it starts up, everything is fine for a while. After a random amount of time, not only does Adobe Flash Player (which I installed per the instructions on this site) fail, but when I try to look at plugins, none show up. I know the network share is sound - I manage it. As far as I know, there are no disconnects from it, even momentarily. After restarting Firefox Portable, it works again for a while. I have rebooted my system repeatedly and that does not help.

Hi,

Firstly, I just had to do a bit of hacky stuff to register here: The captcha wasn't displaying, so I looked in the page source, and brought up what it was trying but failing to display (in my case https://api-secure.recaptcha.net/noscript?k=biglonghash) and opened that on it's own. Looks like the certificate has expired over on that site, so you'll probably want to get them to change the date on it, or get a new one. Most browsers are particularly suspicious of expired certs, so the process for getting the captcha to display will put some users off

The tooltip is shown nothing like this:
http://img200.imageshack.us/i/dlsbbug.png/

How to fix it? Or just disable the tooltip?

About five years ago, Lifehacker published an article about how to remove a lot of clutter from the toolbars of Firefox 2.something (one commenter asked about doing it in Firefox 3 beta 4). Much of it is outdated, but some of the hacks still work and are very much worth doing, especially if you use Portable Firefox on small(er) screens. (This works for regular, locally-installed Firefox as well, it just requires the extra step of locating your profile.)