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Trouble with https

Submitted by paperboy on September 11, 2009 - 8:06pm

I installed FF 3.5 on my thumbdrive. It works good, except:

Whenever I visit an address with https I get an error:
"Connection was reset".

I've seen this happen on both yahoo mail login and my local bank login.

I took the thumbdrive to work, entered in the proxy information for the work network, no problems.

I took it back home, removed the proxy information, same problem. Regular http sites work fine, but https does not work.

FF p. closed -> Links open local Firefox installation

Submitted by mmers on September 8, 2009 - 5:00am

When the last tab of my FF portable is closed ... (the firefox.exe process is no longer running) ... all links open in system default browser. (no surprise)
I currently work around this using a MinimizeToTray addon for FF 3.5. This keeps the Firefox portable process running. No more accidental browsing using the local systems Firefox.

Is there any better way to enforce FF portable? (because systray addons tend to lag behind FF versions)

FF 3.5 and iGoogle page

Submitted by Sb644 on September 6, 2009 - 8:00pm

This is the craziest thing I can't fix. My portable FF homepage keeps going to the sign-in page for iGoogle instead of my personalized page. I've changed my history preferences every which way, dumped cookies, dumped cache, reset home page, reinstalled FF. I thought maybe it was Google but my FF on my desktop goes to iGoogle just fine. Anybody out there got any ideas? Happy Labor Day to all. SB644

FF portable crashes when I scroll to a certain part of page

Submitted by birdbleed on September 5, 2009 - 1:59am

Like the title says, whenever I load a particular message board and scroll to the bottom where the drop down box is (jump to: different parts of the forum, etc.), FFP crashes and it gives a memory "read" error. Everything is fine until it gets to the bottom of the page, I can browse the site all day but as soon as I scroll down to a certain point... Game over.

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