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Firefox Portable

Improve performance

Submitted by rbouchard on April 6, 2009 - 8:26pm

Hi, I found a way to make firefox portable virtually lagless. I'm not sure if this has been already suggested, but you can just make a batch file to copy it to a temporary directory, and then run it on the hard drive. Then, when you're done, you can copy to back to your USB drive.

Here is one I made:
@ECHO OFF
ECHO Creating temporary directory for firefox potable
PAUSE
MKDIR %temp%\FFXP
ECHO Copying firefox to temp directory
PAUSE
XCOPY /E /Q FirefoxPortable %temp%\FFXP
ECHO Starting firefox
PAUSE
%temp%\FFXP\FirefoxPortable.exe
ECHO Saving changes to USB device
PAUSE

Copy Other Than Default Local Profile

Submitted by marc11864 on April 6, 2009 - 3:40pm

I'm setting up a new Firefox Poratable app on a flash drive and want to make sure that I do so correctly using a local profile other than the default.

Using the instructions on the site, I determined where to look for the Local Profile and found as I suspected two. One of course is called the Default and the other is one which I'll call "Enhanced Basic". I tried copying this profile previously into another flash drive but it did not appear to take.

Windows PE and Firefox Portable 3.x.x

Submitted by balubeto on April 2, 2009 - 1:46pm

HI

I put in a USB stick, Portable Firefox 3.xx.

I started Windows PE 2.1, suitable to work with 64-bit operating systems, and I tried to start Firefox Portable writing, from the directory of that program, the command FirefoxPortable.exe but the shell of Windows PE writes "Could not execute the specified program ". Why?

THANKS

BYE

Importing Bookmarks

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Submitted by NullDevice on April 2, 2009 - 4:10am

Hi,

Im using FF portable 3.0.7, and the newest version (3.x) normally installed on HDD.

If i export the bookmarks normally as .json file from the HDD-FF, and then import them into the the portable one with Bookmarks-manager -> import -> restore... then after a restart the bookmarks are gone again.

Why is that? I found a posting here saying u can do it with the portable app suite, which i actually don't use right now, cause i only need like 3 PortableApps on my stick.

Whats the best way to do it? With the suite only?

regards,
NullDevice

Mutiple PW dialog boxes

Submitted by hverne on March 27, 2009 - 6:59pm

In the past, I used a batch file with XCOPY to keep copies of my Port FFox folder, on different thumb drives, synchronized.
I am now using Robocopy which deletes files not in the source.

However, I am sure due to old files not being deleted, when I load Port FFOX, I get asked for the master PW 3 times.
It appears as if there are, on the screen, 3 copies of the PW dialog.

Any suggestions for would be appreciated.

Is Winsock different for Firefox Portable?

Submitted by MagellanHansen on March 27, 2009 - 3:49pm

After removing malware ("Internet Antivirus Pro") from a friend's computer (XP SP3), the winsock catalog reported errors, which I understand is not uncommon. I've run half a dozen repair utilities, followed the manual instructions from Microsoft and third-party sites, and spent about six hours researching.

IE7, IE8, and FF3 are all unable to access HTTP (although HTTPS and FTP work), but Firefox Mobile runs just fine.

Does this indicate any kind of next step to anyone? What about Mobile bypasses the error?

Thanks,
-Magellan

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