Firefox Portable

I set up FFP on a 1 GB thumb drive yesterday, along with Thunderbird, Foxit Reader, NVU Portable, and a couple other apps. Firefox was up & running like a champ, I imported my bookmarks from my home installation of Firefox, and I was quite happy with it (digital watch & all ).
Seeing as how I still had a ton of space left over on my drive, I got a bright idea (queue dramatic music of something bad about to happen) and attempted to install a minimalist version of Linux on the same drive.
Before i go any further, let me explain my rationalle. The linux installtion (http://runt.mybox.org/) is intended to function if the flash drive is used as a bootable device. The install only uses about 128 MB and a posting on the discussion board for the distro even seems to suggest that it's possible to save media to the drive & access it again http://runt.mybox.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=57&start=0&postdays=0&posto...

Firfox 2.0 is going to include a built-in session manager. Since session managers tend to be an exceedingly bad idea when FFP is installed on a flash drive, I wanted to know if this was going to cause problems. I *think* the session manager is only operative when you perform an update or install an extension, so it shouldn't slow down normal opperation the way most session managers do, but I thought I'd check.

I'd love to move to portable Firefox beta 2.0, but I don't want to lose all my settings from 1.5: can I safely upgrade the to 2.0, even if it is a major release, using the "Upgrading Firefox Portable" hints?

Thanks!

The Firefox icon at top left corner was easily replacable in previous "beta" version of PFF browser. However, because of hierarchical differences in folder-structure of the current PFF (1.5.0.6), I could not do this easily. How can I replace Firefox icon with mine in Firefox Portable 1.5.0.6? Thanks.

Firefox has a feature to add extensions that are defined in the Windows registry. Well, this is something that I definitely DO NOT want to happen when using portable firefox. It would be a nice feature to have a warning that registry extensions are available, and prompt the user to allow them to occur.

For the short term, I hacked the nsExtensionManager.js by commenting out the lines in the try block, and leaving the catch block alone in the WinRegInstallLocation function. Maybe this info can help somebody else too.

Hello,

I want to open Files like Doc or avi directly with portable open office or portablevlc, without searching the application or integrating launchy. Is this possible?

Thanks,
Thomas

Dear John T. Haller,

(I tried to PM this but i couldn't find your e-mailaddress..) I have been using Portable Firefox for a long time now (about 6 months) and LOVE that it works on USB-sticks and CD-ROM's. Actually the way i found it was that i was searching for a Firefox-browser for my Pocket PC, and it isn't THAT portable but still portable enough.

I use Firefox 1.5.0.6 with it and copy the \Data-directory every time i want to use a new profile for my PortableFirex-browser. Until recently this was adequate since all extensions and user data get copied with it, but then i discovered the Firefox Extension Backup Extension(FEBE) and thought that was a great way to manage my profiles. What i discovered was that FEBE looks at the profiles of the app\Firefox-browser and so doesn't allow you to do a re-install to the \PortableFirefox-browser. This was allright though, since i could still copy and zip the \Data-directory and get the same result.

I've posted a solution if you want to start Firefox Portable with within the Thunderbird Portable. So when you use Thunderbird Portable and right click on a link you can choose Firefox Portable. And when you from within Firefox Portable right click on a mailto link can choose Thunderbird Portable.

You can read how to do it at:
http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/08/30/using_launchyxml_to_start_firefox_portab...

Hi Guys,

I like to know how Firefox portable is different from a firefox that built and installed in a Flash

I built firefox(1.5.0.1) for ppc-linux and installed in my compact flash drive. Now I mount that flash on another machine as readonly media and execute.

I do have problem like 3 instances of forefox-bins are created and it hangs forever.

.mozilla folder is created in .root and have no issue with that.

How does the portable firefox different. do you need to do anything extra to make it work??

Regards,
Ravi

I just moved my Firefox (everything) from my USB drive to the hard drive, and now the Adblock Plus Preferences box appears, at first when I would press a button on the keyboard, and now when I change the site (could be triggered by master password prompt). The only change I made was setting the fixes so that they would adjust for drive letter and the directories so that they'd be accurate. I also got a few unresponsive script notices (quite odd), and I told it to continue on all of them. I've gotten those notices before, but only when a) an autoupdate was interrupted or otherwise messed up or b) when I use a USB1.1 port and have to adjust for drive letter changes with a lot of extension changes (e.g. pending installations).