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Extensions aren't installing!

Submitted by fish613 on December 16, 2006 - 5:20pm

I've installed Firefox Portable -latest version on my USB stick, and I've had to manually install all my extesions again. But no matter how many times I restart Firefox, remove the drive, etc. the extensions always say "restart firefox to complete installation." Can anyone help me get them to work properly? I'd be very grateful!
Thanks!

Back button don't work anymore

Submitted by zimmerDN on December 14, 2006 - 10:11pm

So my work is against Firefox so I hide my copy on a flash drive. However, with this copy i seem to have lost the "back function" button that I have assigned the mouse with (also lost the forward function). It works anywhere else in windows just fine and even in my installed copy of FF.

Anyone know how I can get it back?

portable api

Submitted by oregonduckman on December 14, 2006 - 6:09pm

Is there an interface that is exported by Portable Filefox that allows one to tap into the HTML stream for an arbitrary URL? Is there a site where I can go to get the API associated with the interface?

Uh-OH...What did I do? Need to find a file....

Submitted by sorryociffer on December 14, 2006 - 4:27pm

While downloading a file via keepvid.com from break.com I had a pop-up ask me if I wished to install an update and it was supposedly from microsoft. Stupidly I did not research the file name or even write it down before saying it was ok to do it. No after I did it I can't download vids via sites like keepvid.com from sites like break.com

Does XP keep a log of what, when and where updates or downloads go to see if I can pinpoint it? If it went into the firefox files where might it have gone?

Anyone else experience the same thing?

Thanks,
Bryan

Multiple Instances: pff 2.0 under Windows

Submitted by tunasashimi on December 14, 2006 - 8:41am

Impossible. ?!

Portable Firefox 2.0 is a stuff-up:

1. None of the ini files are the same
2. Everything's different.
3. You can't run PFF while another instance of firefox is running.

I ask you then: WHAT IS THE POINT?
Why not code a batch file that copies your profile over everytime you run it, on whatever computer, wherever?!

PFF2 should have it's own forum, if it's so different. It is so utterly frustrating to see an application with so much potential so stuffed up due to shortsighted planning. The do-gooders coding it should just all die.

I have one simple requirement: I need to launch as many independent instances of firefox 2 as possible, without any interference between them.

bookmarks-1.html, bookmarks-2.html, bookmarks-3.html, ..., bookmarks-100.html, ... ?

Submitted by klaymen on December 14, 2006 - 2:42am

Hi all,

Is it normal that whenever I modify anything in my bookmarks (add, rename, etc) the old bookmark is stored in a file "bookmarks-n.html" (n=1,2,3,...)? I have quite a huge bookmarks file (around 1MB), and after a few weeks I ended up with more than 100 files "bookmarks-1.html", "bookmarks-2.html", "bookmarks-3.html", etc. that used more than 100MB of space. I could remove them all without any problem.

I would prefer though if this backup-feature (if this is the idea behind) could be turned off, or at least limited to about 3 generations instead of keeping them all. This mechanism

My plugins won't install

Submitted by crm114 on December 14, 2006 - 2:03am

None of my plugins or my themes will install!
They all say "This addon will be installed when Firefox is restarted"
I have restarted it, pulled out my flash drive, switched machines and still no result.
I also uninstalled and reinstalled a few apps and nothing.
Please HELP!

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