Firefox Portable

First off I'd like to say that I'm a huge fan of what you're doing here. Crappy Windows installers have irritated me for years, and I find the fairly recent surge of self-contained and completely portable applications to be extraordinarily refreshing. Taking Firefox with me has been a real dream -- I'm one of those antsy types who doesn't trust online bookmarking sites and as a result have spent a pretty good deal of time trying to maintain some level of Firefox synchronization between the computers I use. So for me, this rocks.

However, I think I need some help picking out a "portable application-friendly" USB stick. I currently rock the adorable, ultra-tiny Kingmax 1GB Flash Drive. I don't think it ever claimed to be the fastest USB stick on the market, but it has other redeeming qualities (photo courtesy of Truex, SA forums). Anyway, I've been having a terrible time getting Firefox Portable to run well on this thing. It's really jerky, to the point that it's borderline unusable for me. I have history disabled, I uninstalled all my extensions, and finally backed-up and formatted the drive to try it again with an unmodified straight-out-the-box install of FFP. Same jerky hard-to-navigate crap everytime. My customized copy of FFP runs absolutely flawlessly from the local hard drive, but I would really like to be able to run it directly from my USB stick. I like taking it to work to use on the "public" computers here in the office that several employees have access to, but I'm pretty sure that if I had to copy FFP from the stick to the local disk everyday and back at the end, I'd wind up going off and leaving private data at one point or another.

When using Firefox 2.0 RC1 as a Live - Firefox (I used a write protected usb-stick) an error-message "Drive is not writeable" occoured.

I used the procedure as describe on portableapps.com (I used the firefoxportable.ini - file).

After quitting the error-message, the Firefox really worked "live".

But, is that error-message ok ? Or did I something wrong when I have created my "Firefox Live" ?

I'm on a university network in Japan, and Firefox Portable loads just fine, but can't access the internet at all. I tried using ProxyGet and was told that all the services were directed through proxy port 8000, except Gopher, which was localhost port 1. I put the port numbers into Firefox Portable, but no go -- I still can't access the internet. Is there anything else I can try?

My computer is using Traditional Chinese Windows 2000 Professional SP4. According to Windows Task Manager, I found that Portable Firefox 1.5.0.7 occupies 36,760K memory with just one tab of Firefox Start Page. If I add one more tab to www.yahoo.com, it increases to 42,260K. After I closed all the tabs, it even occupies 45,428K. A few hours later, it doesnt release any memory. The same thing happen for my installation verions of Firefox. However, I open 2 separate IE and visit the same URL with total 12,404K.

I know that you have written a section on how to make Firefox look like IE, over here: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/firefox_internet_explorer/.
This is all great, except for the fact that Bamms site is offline as you acknowledged, and your prebuilt profile for PFF "does not fully work with 1.5."

Would it be possible, for you to maintain this and maybe add a link on the portable firefox page to a profile download? Many people would probably benefit from it, as using PFF in an environment where you aren't allowed to run other applications, eg: Work, Schools, etc. Im sure many dont know about it either.

John, would you please release an updated launcher with support for the ini inside the \PortableApps\ folder? I keep the ini in \PortableApps\FirefoxPortable. I tried to modify it myself, but I don't know much about NSIS, and it's not as simple as changing line 91:
IfFileExists "$EXEDIR\${NAME}.ini" "" NoINI
to
IfFileExists "$EXEDIR\PortableApps\${NAME}\${NAME}.ini" "" NoINI

There is a wrong link for the languages pack for the Firefox 2.0 beta.
I need the languages packs (.xpi) for the FF 2, the language pack for 1.5.0.7 is not approbiate.

I get a different MD5 sum from the one given. For the .exe I get: C9D3636C89F38A7A14F27422D256AF07

Also, I cannot find a way to just search the forums. Is there?

This would basically be portable Firefox built for express use in a work environment that actively prohibits the use of Firefox (or any "unauthorized" software). it would come pre-installed with the user agent switcher extension (which would default to internet explorer's UA string), the internet explorer skin and icons (details on how to make firefox look like internet explorer here). being portable, firefox would already be undetectable for snoopy IT admins browsing your profile.

what else would it need to be com

After the update to FFP 1.5.0.7 (copied over the previous version) the "DisableSplashScreen=true" no more seems to work. The FFP.ini is in the proper location, in the root directory, next to FFP.exe.

(Apart from that: just noticed, while checking the forum's "preview" pane, that this post here was submitted by me "on December 31, 1969".)