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Alternate EXE call???

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Submitted by stupendousman_man on August 8, 2008 - 12:49pm

I was nosing around my USB drive when I noticed that the Firefox portable INI file made this statement:

"The FirefoxExecutable entry allows you to set the Firefox Portable Launcher to use an alternate EXE call to launch firefox. This is helpful if you are using a machine that is set to deny firefox.exe from running. You'll need to rename the firefox.exe file and then enter the name you gave it on the firefoxexecutable= line of the INI."

Launching URL from windows bypasses portable firefox.

Submitted by ShalowUser on August 7, 2008 - 10:49pm

whenever i click a link on windows (about boxes in programs) it open the firefox program and not firefoxportable.

how can we make them open the firefoxportable with the default settings ? or make firefox.exe (original) look in the profile directory of portable firefox ?

either way, i want to be able to open my links in the portable to retain all my preferences, etc

thanks

Firefox Multiple Profiles : the easy way

Submitted by Fxp on August 7, 2008 - 6:22am

You can have multiple portable profiles in three little steps. Still, you won't be able to run them at the same time.

STEP 1 : Create the profiles

The normal architecture of the firefox portable folder is:

-FirefoxPortable
   -App
   -Data
   -Other

You need to create multiple "Data" folders (one for each profile) in firefox portable. You can either keep "Data" as the default folder, or just erase it. You can name the folders as you wish. You can replace profile1, profile2, profile3, by Serious, Naughty, extensionTester if you prefer.

Blue coat web filter

Submitted by lokomotiv_lib on August 6, 2008 - 4:26pm

Sometimes I try to get this web www.senavirtual.edu.co, but I get this message on the tab:

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Network Error (dns_server_failure)

Your request could not be processed because an error occurred contacting the DNS server.
The DNS server may be temporarily unavailable, or there could be a network problem.

For assistance, contact your network support team.

Your request was categorized by Blue Coat Web Filter as 'Education'.
If you wish to question or dispute this result, please click here.

Firefox Caching

Submitted by sisyphusnz on August 5, 2008 - 5:52pm

I'm running Firefox Portable, but it doesn't seem to be caching the webpages, which I want. I need the whole webpage stored in history, because I work offline mostly.

I've looked in Options; it lets me change the size of the cache, but I don't see where I can make it save the whole page.

Thank you.

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