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recognising certain mime types

Submitted by krussell on December 27, 2006 - 4:11pm

I have a new mime type that I am working with and when I click on a file with that extension I do not receive the option to 'open' the file. My only options are 'save' and 'cancel'. I also do not have access to the check box that allows me to tell firefox to use the default application to handle this type. I would either like to setup an application to handle this type within firefox or get the download box to work correctly. Any help would be appreciated.

Kirk

Portables as default program

Submitted by Miles on December 26, 2006 - 10:09pm

A few of us are wondering if or how a portable program such as FF and TB could be used as the default program in a desktop without installation of those normal -- non-portable programs.

The main question being would a portable version of an application be available to an OS to be set as default? And would there be any other complications or behavior changes??

Splash Screen Extension

Submitted by aldreneo on December 25, 2006 - 3:27pm

Hello, I am aldreneo_aka_slyfox

co-creator of Splash! - The Splash Screen Extension
I was googling around and saw that some of your members recommended this extension.
I am currently developing splash! 2.0

I have had some complaints about Firefox portable and drive letters changing making the URL invalid...So I am adding relitive to Firefox binary URL support(!BIN!/splash.png)

I am also adding:
Update allwaysontop
Update close splash on main window to limit options(Because of the problems it causes with some options)
Update progress bar
Update in option screen preview so that it isn't so buggy

Basic - why install when portable exists

Submitted by occam on December 24, 2006 - 6:51pm

Although my question concerns Firefox 2.0, I'm interested in the generic question:
why install when there is portable version

- why would anyone want to install a program on hard disk when a portable version exists?

It seems a portable program is a cleaner / simpler solution in all respects than an installed program. (Less mess in the registry, no uninstall problems, and portable on movable devices.)

What am I missing? Are there *any* downsides to portable software (speed of execution, update...?)

Thanks

Can not Install Add-ons

Submitted by kak on December 23, 2006 - 4:18pm

Hi

I sometimes can not intall add-ons with Firefox Portable.
It seems that I can not install another add-on after I installed one add-on (it is not because of a specific add-on, for everything).
Therefore, I had to restart firefox once to install one add-on.

What is going on?
My environment is Windows XP EN SP2.

FFP/FX Anti- Phish Protection Workaround

Submitted by VinDSL on December 23, 2006 - 5:16am

Here's a weird one for you...

I've been having all sorts of problems, for the last week, with my thumb drive.

FFP crashed, and I had to reinstall it. My Miranda-IM db kept getting corrupt, and had to be repaired. Winamp was overflowing its' cache. Yada, yada, yada.

While trying to figure this out, I ran 'netstat' and discovered FFP was constantly 'phoning home' to Google. It looked like a classic worm signature, to me. After investigating this more, I discovered Mozilla and Google are working together to provide Fx2 with this anti-phish protection.

I tried running a local db, and the Goggle one -- didn't make any difference -- FFP was still constantly communicating with Google and crashing the proggies mentioned above.

plc4.dll corrupted

Submitted by PollieXmas on December 21, 2006 - 2:36pm

Hi All,

Do any of you have an idea why the file F:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\plc4.dll would suddenly become corrupted? I.e. it was preventing PFF from starting.

Three things happened on my machine from the time PFF last worked fine
- installing and uninstalling VMWare Workstation
- installing VMWare Server
- Upgrading PTB 1.5.0.8 to 1.5.0.9

I simply overwrote the file that windows thought was corrupt with the same file from firefox on my notebook. Would that be fine or should I rather fine a PFF version of the file?

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