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Firefox Portable 3.5.6 -- Crash Happy?

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Submitted by TStodden on December 19, 2009 - 4:24pm

I'm unsure if it's Firefox itself or the portable version, but Firefox has gotten a little "Crash Happy" since I've upgraded.

The majority of the crashes are occurring with Facebook apps. On the upside, Firefox isn't freezing up to the point I have to kill it.

I just want to make sure that it's just not me having this issue.

Firefox Portable and Java Portable

Submitted by Mets on December 18, 2009 - 2:57pm

How do I get Firefox Portable working with Java Portable? The upcoming version of Firefox, 3.6, will only support Java 6 Update 10 and upwards. I installed Java Portable, which is supposed to be Java 6 Update 17, to X:\portableapps\CommonFiles\Java as requested. My Firefox is installed to X:\portableapps\browser. When I load Firefox 3.6 Beta 4, it does not see Java Portable....

Firefox portable updates automatically through the web even when I told it not to

Submitted by Megafrog on December 18, 2009 - 10:53am

I had set my previous version of portable FF (whichever that was before the 3.5.6 update) NOT to update automatically but it automatically updated this morning.

That bothers me because of this message from this web page:

https://portableapps.com/forums/support/firefox_portable/faq

"The Mozilla Software Updater no longer correctly updates secondary, standalone and portable versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, etc."

Should I be Concerned?

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Submitted by hunter067 on December 17, 2009 - 6:09pm

Hello,

Five minutes before I wrote this sentence, I updated my Firefox to 3.5.6. When I opened it for the second time, it basically asked me if I wanted to copy Firefox temporarily to the hard drive, because it had read-only files. I said "no" and it said Firefox had to close. After that, its working as if nothing ever happened...

Should I be concerned with this message or is it irrelevant?

Rolling one's own installer

Submitted by apendleton on December 16, 2009 - 1:45am

We have a situation where we'd like to deploy a whole bunch of copies of portable FF to USB sticks, each with the same set of customizations preset (certain modules added, config settings changed, etc.). Is it possible to roll one's own portable FF installer with this stuff already done? If so, what's the easiest way to do it?

Addon weirdness

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Submitted by computerfreaker on December 15, 2009 - 11:33pm

I'm using FF 3.5.5 Portable, syncing it between two computers with a flash drive. When I transfer FF from one computer to another, I delete the previous Firefox folder - that could be important.
Anyway, some of my addons get screwed up. Several (CS Lite, JSView, ColorZilla, and a few others) don't correctly recognize their version #s - FF says they "Aren't compatible with Firefox 3.5.5", so I have to hit "Find updates" to make FF apply a "compatibility update". This happens every time I move FF from one computer to another...

Files to delete

Submitted by ElSid on December 15, 2009 - 6:48pm

Where is this in the portable version? I am trying to erase the cache to reduce space on my thumb drive.
"Mozilla Firefox stores the saved files to the folder “Cache”, which you can find under the profile folder (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\\). You can safely erase that folder when Firefox is not running."

Does deleting the places.sqlite and cookies.sqlite do anything in portable FF? This is also recommended to the standard install. Doesn/t places.sqlite hold your profile?

Changing profile location for ff portable

Submitted by escalf on December 13, 2009 - 9:46pm

Hello,
I'm in a unique position, it seems.
My company has restrictions on the locally installed FF, therefore many of us run FF portable. Our network admin will not allow us to run programs from network shares (going so far as to delete *.exe from our network shares, regularly), and USB drive use is restricted, so we install to our desktops. Network admin is requesting that we descrease the size of our roaming profiles as well.

Solved: Make this work on Windows 7 64bit!!!

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Submitted by Acecool on December 12, 2009 - 9:45am

Ok, when you run it the first time it saves your settings.

But since Windows 7 sees the exe as an installer (NSIS) it will create a new profile for this application.

And, when you close it, and reopen it - it will link to the new profile..

Right click on EXE for both Thunderbird and Firefox portable.

Goto troubleshoot compatability, and choose Windows XP SP3 - then save the settings for the exe forever.

Create a shortcut and put it on your desktop.

Both programs now load your portable profile!

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