Firefox Portable

I'm not trying to beat a dead horse and would like to avoid the acrimony that surrounded the previous post on this topic (https://portableapps.com/node/7439), but I wanted to revisit the issue of slow bookmark updates.

The USB drive speed seems to be a significant factor, but in my own personal tests (identical bookmarks.html file on multiple fast/reliable USB 2.0 drives), the bookmarks.html file itself makes a big difference.

What I'm wondering:

I am new to PortableApps and have some questions.

I have moved Firefox and Thunderbird profiles to FF Portable and TB Portable, and it works. But is there an easy way to keep bookmarks, settings, mail etc updated on the portable FF and TB? Also the other way around, if I add a new bookmark to FFP how can I sync this to FF? Or if I download a new mail to TBP how can I sync this to TB?

Thanks

This is a little odd. I'm running FF Portable on my PC, and don't even have the regular FF installed. When I open FFP normally, everything works normally. But when I click on a shortcut without opening FFP first, a generic, non-portable (and non-customized) FF window opens up. Any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it so that shortcuts open in my usual FFP app?

I can launch Thunderbird or firefox from any computer, even at work with a firewall. However only one app at a time, when one is open opening the other will give an error message that it is already running. I have tried this on Vista and win2K with the same results.

Insatall OK. Loads OK. Get message "Unable to connect, FF can not establish connection to the server".
FF runs great on my Harddrive. Prior to upgrading to vista I ran it from several USB flash drives w/o a problem. In fact all portable browsers (Opera, Maxthon) present the same problem. What do I need to do?

I'm using FireFox Portalbe v 2.0.0.8 on a Kingston DataTraveler 1GB USB Flash Drive.

I noticed that FireFox "hangs" quite a bit on one of my workstations. I experienced this problem on FireFox v2.0.0.6, so I upgraded to FireFox Portable v2.0.0.8 yesterday. I did not remove/reinstall.

I use FireFox on 3 workstations. Two of the workstations have USB 2.0 interfaces and the IBM T30 Laptop has a USB 1.0 interface. On one workstation I noticed the "hanging" programs (Thunderbird hangs too) and found it irritating.

I've just had my firefox notify me of an update, and I updated to 2.0.0.9.

I know hindsight is a wonderful thing, but should I have said yes ?
With it being the portable version is it OK to update it like that ?

It appears to be working OK

Thanks

Paul

Hi John and everybody else here,

I'm using FFP since quite a time now and am very happy with it. Especially the fact that I can keep all my passwords encrypted within the browser protecting them by the master password comes in very handy if you want to access password protected sites from an internet cafe.

Ok, here's my situation. At work, they have taken away our internet. The only sites we can access are work-related. We've figured out how to get the internet back (Using Firefox Portable on a flash drive.) Here's my question: Quicktime is not installed on my comp at work, anyone know how to install quicktime onto the flash drive? There are no opts when installing it to chose the location of the install.

Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks,
Thadd

Worked fine on Wednesday at work. This morning, I ran the program and got:

VirusScan Alert!
Date and Time: ...
Pathname: C:\Documents and Settings\ACMarsh\Local Settings\Temp\nsj126.tmp\registry.dll
Detected As: Generfic StartPage.r
State: Deleted

Any ideas why this is happening?