Firefox Portable

can I use multiple profiles and add ons with firefox portable?

[Topic clarified by mod Tim]

Hi @ll,

today I've downloaded firefoxprotable and extraced it on my notebook.

It runs fine up to now but: how can I change language-setting to german?
I do not talk about preferred site-language but about the language of al of Firefox' menues and dialogues.

any help ios appreciated.

Volker

Hello,

I'm trying to use Firefox portable for a backwards reason that it was probably designed. I want to put it on a network drive and allow multiple people to access it at the same time. The first person can launch the program with no problems. Each person thereafter will get this error:

"Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you much first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system".

Any thoughts?

-Ian

Not sure why this would be happening, but I put the FFP in the Shared documents folder along with WallpaperSwitcher and when I run FFP logged in as the Limited user, it gives me a popup first that it can't do read/write functions, and then it runs. Logged as Admin it is fine.

When I was first using FFP 3.1BETA2, it wouldn't go to the home page. I had to manually click the homepage. I reinstalled with FFP 3.01b and I get the same message, but then when I click okay it loads up the homepage.

Running on a WinXPsp3 on a dell, if it matters.

I've read some stuff about Firefox running slowly or freezing during page loads and such, so part of this may be old news.. but I'm actually getting freezes while it's NOT loading pages... For example, I'll be reading a page and scroll down. Firefox might freeze in mid-repaint. Now, anything that accesses the flash drive also freezes (read or write) and I can't kill the task via Process Explorer.

I don't know if FireGPG works completely yet with Firefox Portable (I'm still testing), but This blog entry (which is really just a screen shot) shows one way to manage the setup, using a {$FXFolder} variable to point to GnuPG and the GNUPGHOME, whether they are located in CommonFiles or under Thunderbird Portable.

Sorry, I know syncing FFP with local copies has been covered in the past but my question is slightly different. I'm very new to Linux, so I obviously can not run FFP exclusively from a flash drive. I have a virtual machine running windows but don't want to rely on it (I can however access my portable apps within it).

Is there an easy way to copy my FFPE settings to my installed local Linux copy (by settings I am referring to bookmarks, add-ons, themes, etc).

I've been beating up my Vista64 laptop to get it to work like I want.

After many, many attempts, clicking on a link in Thunderbird Portable would start a clean install of Firefox, and not start my own Firefox Portable. Of course, if Firefox Portable was already running, there was never a problem.

It seems that Control Panel / Default Programs / Set Associations / Protocol (not the file types portion of the listing!) only allowed choosing Firefox or Internet Explorer with no option to "browse" or search for other programs. This affects the HTTP and HTTPS protocols.

It says here
https://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#plugins

"Flash is available as an extension. Just click the link"

I do. Follow the text (even restart) and then go to YouTube to be greeted by:

"Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player."

Huh... so how does this work?

When I try to add on an extension (for example, FireShot), I click the "add extension" button and after some churning I get:

Firefox could not install the file at

https://addons.mozilla.org/downloads/file/42641/fireshot-0.63-fx-win.xpi

because: Download error
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This has happened with more than one extension.