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Bookmarking a FRAME from "Bookmarks - Bookmark This Page" menubar item

Submitted by phillyboy on September 23, 2006 - 7:44am

I am using Firefox Portable 1.5.0.6 for my application, and it is working very well, so-far. Currently, the only way to bookmark a frame is a mouse-right-click within a frame and select "This Frame-Bookmark This Frame" menuitem.

Now, here is my challenge: I want to bookmark a frame from the Bookmarks menu. This implies I customize the "Bookmarks-Bookmark This Page" to actually bookmark a FRAME and NOT the FRAMESET. It currently bookmarks the frameset even when you invoke it from a frame.

How can I duplicate the functionality of "This Frame-Bookmark This Frame" mouse-right-click menuitem in "Bookmarks-Bookmark This Page" menubar item? I am currently working on addBookmarkForBrowser() function in browser.js, without any success so-far.

Weird problem

Submitted by LethPhaos on September 22, 2006 - 4:10pm

I've just installed FFP on my external hard drive and when I run it, every web page i open "hops". It's difficult to explain, but it's like the whole page moves down a few pxls and moves up the same few pxls imiddiately after, after this it does it again, so it keeps hopping. I'ts kinda annoying Wink

Anyone knows this bug (?) or how to solve it?

Thanks in advance!

Run a file on exit

Submitted by twnty3svn on September 22, 2006 - 9:09am

Just a quick question as to whether the launcher for Firefox or Thunderbird can run a .bat (or any file for that matter) file on exit? Or whether anyone knows of a extension that does the same thing.

The reason i'd like to konw if this functionaliy exists is because i want it to run my EncryptonClick .bat on close, automatically. If anyone has any other suggestions to acomplish the same thing, please post.

Thanks

Doesn't work with WINE

Submitted by Rine on September 21, 2006 - 3:05pm

If I open winecfg and go to the devices I can change the paths. It works if I choose "/media/windows_c" für the letter C: but Firefox and Thunderbird (I don't test the other here) don't start. I can start other applications like Putty etc. but not Firefox and Thunderbird.

If I change the path at C: to "/media/CORSAIR" (my USB-Stick) Firefox works fine. What can I do that it works on other letters as I, G, P etc.?

PortableApps (any), but NOT on a flash drive

Submitted by heinz57g on September 21, 2006 - 12:00pm

i will start this here on the FIREFOX section, but it basically
applies to most of the other PortableApps too:

>> Download History Cleared
>> Browser History Disabled
>> Form Info Saving Disabled
>> No Disk Cache
>> None of your personal data is left behind

these were the main points one likes and uses those applications,
and what made them famous.

in my case, i will for technical and space reasons have to use one
of those newer HDDs, 1 inch or 1.8 inch, with as much as 60GB
available on them. plenty of space to ignore the first 4 points
mentioned above, but certainly not the last one, as i still will

Multiple Portable FireFox Instances

Submitted by PDD on September 21, 2006 - 9:18am

Hi Guys,

I have a thumb drive which I bring to work and I use it for carrying around Portable FireFox. Can I use the same instance of Portable FireFox so that it has two profiles one for when Im in work and one for when Im at home.

Or would it be better to have two distinct instances one for work and one for home but then its a pain in the ass to install all the plugins again etc.

Has anyone any ideas on how long it would take to synch Portable FireFox?

Dave

I/O Error running P-FFx

Submitted by jimdoria on September 20, 2006 - 3:33pm

I'm having an unusual problem that affects P-FFx intermittently on my work machine.

Here is the situation. I can run P-FFx from my thumb drive on my work (XP) machine, surf, etc. Everything's fine. But at some point, if I exit and try to re-run it, it crashes on startup with the following error:

    Title: XPCOM:EventReceiver:firefox.exe
    Message: The instruction at 0x007FDC8F (not sure if this changes) referenced memory at 0x007FDC8F. The required data was not placed into memory because of an I/O error status of 0xc0000185.

Now once I get this, P-FFx will always crash on startup, even when run it in safe mode. Removing and re-inserting the thumb drive also does not help. There are no copies of Firefox or anything like Acrobat Reader hanging around, according to Process Explorer. It just won't run again.

Renaming Firefox

Submitted by Sin 3 Killer on September 20, 2006 - 7:41am

I Downloaded FirefoxPottable so i can use it at school but my schools admin has blocked firefox from rnning. To fix this i simply have to rename the firefox.exe file but then wen the FirefoxPortable.exe File Searches for the file it cant find it. Has anybody got any idea what file i would have to modify to get it to work?

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