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Firefox 3.6.8 run via USB stick

Submitted by anon_private on September 2, 2010 - 5:59pm

Hi,

I expanded FF - 3.6.8 for Linux on to a USB stick.

I am running this programme in concert with UBUNTU LiveCD.

It works well, but someone has told me that running FF from a USB has security implications.

Since I use this arrangement for banking, I would like another opinion, and possibly an explanation.

I have not installed UBUNTU because I only use it for banking.

I use FF from a USB stick so that I can update it.

Thanks.

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Cannot uninstall add-ons in FxP 3.6.3

Submitted by patrickmaddog on September 1, 2010 - 7:48pm

I was doing some testing to find out if some of my favorite add-ons would work portably -- and most did -- but when I decided to uninstall them, restarting the browser caused the add-ons window to pop up saying that I had just installed them, and they remain in the add-ons list.

Do you know what could be causing this? Is there a way to manually remove the add-ons by deleting them from the drive? The add-ons that I am trying to uninstall are:

-Add To Search Bar
-Beef TACO
-Ghostery
-SkipScreen

The add-ons I am going to keep are:

[Resolved] Running multiple versions of portable firefox simultaneously

Submitted by mangodurian on September 1, 2010 - 6:08pm

I'm not sure how he does it, but in Germany, there's this guy that releases portable versions of firefox that can run simultaneously with other versions..

[link to illegal software removed by mod JTH]

Would it be possible/simple for future versions here to be tweaked to do likewise??

I would like to run portable 3.6.8 alongside portable version 4 for testing purposes..

or alternatively, is there something i could tweak in your versions, to allow both versions to run side by side???

Running Firefox Portable stable and Firefox Portable beta simultaneously

Submitted by jetshopit on August 16, 2010 - 6:29am

I want to run the stable and beta versions of Firefox portable together. I'm using, and liking, the Beta, but there's a website or two I use that don't work on the beta so I have to use the stable version for them.

The two versions use separate profiles, and I've set AllowMultipleInstances=true in the FirefoxPortable.ini in both. But still, if the beta is running and I try and launch the stable it brings up another windows of the beta. Closing the beta version makes the stable one come up fine (so it's not that I actually have two copies of the beta!)

Firefox Flash

Submitted by Darkmatter on August 16, 2010 - 2:26am

Hi.
i installed firefox portable on my usb card drive, and encountered a problem:

allthough i used this firefox flash installer which is available here, i have to keep using it everytime i switch computers, or the flash plugin wont work.

dont misunderstand me - i dont get an error message - its just that the flash components of a website wont load until i execute the flash portable installer.

i dont think that this was the plan.

anyone got suggestions?

Greetings

p.s.: excuse me for my cruel english

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