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Submitted by jdunning on October 27, 2006 - 12:29pm

I appologize in advance if this quetion appears to be viewed as "needy" - I do appreciate all the time and effort that John and others have devoted to this community.

For FF 1.x subreleases, I have been able to select "Check for updates..." from the help menu to update FFP. However, as of this morning, I still receive a message stating no new updates for my version 1.5.0.7.

Will we need to wait for a major reinstall for the major release 2.0? Or am I just being impatient and need to wait for the update servers to catch up to the new release?

Jeff

Memory Hog

Submitted by mr dexter on October 27, 2006 - 12:16am

I run FfP 1.5.0.7 from a 2gb Adata thumb drive. When doing simple things in FfP such as switching tabs or opening a page in a new tab, the CPU usage soars and either operation takes a very long time. This doesn't happen with the Ff run from my C drive, nor do any other programs run slowly from the thumb drive.

Am I the only one having this problem?

Is there a way to fix it?

Thanks for your help.

Question about installing FF2.0 Portable on top of FF1.5.7 manual install

Submitted by EOBeav on October 26, 2006 - 5:17pm

I need to upgrade from FF1.5.7 on my iPod, which I installed manually (not a PortableApp.com mod), to FF2.0 Portable. Will my bookmarks, extensions, etc... be automatically migrated to the new install? If not, what are some ways I can gain access to those again?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

XUL Apps in FFP

Submitted by wsm23 on October 26, 2006 - 11:58am

Anybody heard of issues with any XUL extensions in FFP 2.0. I currently use Wizz RSS News Reader 2.1.6 and have tried Calc 1.0.2.1. Both are XUL apps. Looks like the Calc kept a history.

Any issues I should be careful of?

Session Restore

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Submitted by Tim Clark on October 25, 2006 - 5:46pm

John,

I just "killed" a Firfox Portable RC3 session on purpose using the task manager.
When I started Firefox again it opened up all the tabs I had before. This is what this feature is supposed to do. But I wonder, might it not be a good idea to have this disabled by default in Firefox Portable to save "writes" to the flash drive. I know this is why disk cache and history are disabled. I assume that for Session Restore to work it must write the state of Firefox, all its windows and all its tabs to the drive so it can restore them. This, I assume happens over and over and over again.

Launcher download

Submitted by MoHaG on October 25, 2006 - 4:39am

I would like to update the launcher to the latest version, but I am unable to find a link to download only the launcher. There used to be a link to the latest launcher on the old site. Was it removed or am I missing it?

I would like to update my Portable Firefox to 2.0, so downloading the latest full package would be just a waste of (expensive) bandwidth. Also I can not use the automatic updating include with Firefox, since I'm runnig it from a network drive with very limited free space...

I'm currently using launcher 1.1.3.0, will there be any update issues?

firefox vs IE -- text proportion

Submitted by squeezebox on October 24, 2006 - 11:30am

I've enjoyed firefox, especially the portable version, for many reasons. However, firefox has trouble displaying text in correct proportion. I recently noticed that IE does not share this tendency.

Take a look at this screenshot to see what I mean:

http://squeezebox.oplink.net/firefox-vx-IE.jpg

Is there a workaround for this firefox characteristic? I'd love to keep enjoying its other benefits which outweigh IE but this one is a little annoying.

FYI my screen resolution is 1920X1200, and all text on the firefox window shown has been scrolled down to the minimum size allowable.

thanks for any suggestions

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