Firefox Portable

Something very minor, but I have Firefox 3.6.6 in the {Drive}\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable folder and Firefox 4.0 B1 in {Drive}\PortableApps\FirefoxPortableTest folder and they both show up as "Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition".

For now, easy enough to workaround: hover mouse over both to see which one is which.

Hi gang,

I am having trouble getting a second instance of FF to run, I have set the .ini file appropriately and it's being read as the splash screen is now disabled but I can not get a second instance to run.

Here's the strange part, with my Task Manager up I start another instance of FF and I can see the second copy listed for about three seconds then it goes away, almost as if it's told to terminate, no error messages or warnings of any kind. I read several other posts concerning the .ini file but nothing that lead me to a resolution.

hello

when i double-click a local html file, the filename incorrectly gets incorrectly changed to the old dos 8-character naming, and spaces are treated as separate files.

for example, if i double-click a local file called:
C:\Users\john\Documents\Clients\Jeffrey\Footprints\Walking Tour\avatar\googleMapsAPItest.html

firefox portable opens the following two tabs:

file:///C:/Users/john/DOCUME~1/Clients/Jeffrey/Footprints/Walking

http://www.tour.com/avatar/googleMapsAPItest.html

how can i fix this?

Downloaded a few portable apps yesterday; McAfee told me there was a trojan in the Firefox portable installer. Did the same with VLC, but I see various security scanners have wrongly tagged that too. Anyone else?

I was exploring PortableFreeware.com and I found this:
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?p=2&so=p (scroll down to see the Firefox Portable section)

It says

Stealth: No. By default, crash files are created in the %APPDATA%Mozilla directory. To make stealth, edit \App\Firefox\application.ini and replace:

[Crash Reporter]
Enabled=1
ServerURL=https://crash-reports.mozilla.com/submit

with:

[Crash Reporter]
Enabled=0
ServerURL=https://crash-reports.mozilla.com/dontsubmit
MOZ_CRASHREPORTER_DISABLE=1

I have been using Firefox portable 1.5.0.3 with winXP sp2 for some years, now. It always worked fine.
Last week, I got a virus from a streaming page. I knew it was a malware because of the sudden lag i experimented. I had to force the closing of Portable Firefox. I think I have got rid of the virus manually (CPU usage normal, network requests normal).

Hello,

Checking plugins and extensions for updates on FF 3.6.6
I found that FlashPlayer was "vulnerable" so I clicked
and ended up with an Adobe Download Manager installed in
my Firefox plugins. After restarting several times this
plugin disappeared and I could not find it in any file
directory either. I wonder what that was, a bad download
from Adobe possibly ? The program works OK as well with
the same FlashPlayer.

Everything else updated OK, Java 6.0.20, etc. and everything
otherwise works and looks good.

Hello,

Since Firefox 3.5 this preference is superseded with setting browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo and browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo to 0.
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.enabled
Should add this to in the page https://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#performance

I have been using Firefox Portable for a while now and have not experienced any problems until recently. As of today, when I start FxP I get this error message:

Just installed FFP 4.0b1 as well as a local copy of same beta, and now when I run Firefox Portable, it steals the pinned taskbar icon for the local copy instead of creating a new one like it used to. This is very confusing.