Firefox Portable

hi everyone

1st, thanks for this version, John

I would like to use pff in place of my "normal" ff, cos im tired of having to backup things (with mozbackup) each time i do a system restore (or a ghost restore), which i often forget to do.

I would just like to know how i could make a registry file, to register pff as my default browser, so that whenever an html file is clicked or whatever, pff is launched (well i know i can do this by choosing ""open with"->pff"...), and also get all proper associations which are done when you click (with normal firefox) on "choose ff as my default browser".

I downloaded Portable Firefox 1.5.03 months ago and I used the Help->Check for Updates to update to 1.5.05. Did Firefox really update to 1.5.05? or am i still using 1.5.03? I also updated my u3 version of Firefox using the same method.

Sorry folks, I’m not very learned I guess.
My thumb Drive & I will be touring the Pacific for several months (no laptop), browsing with FF.
Cyber Café’s will be my interface to the world.
Is there any method/tool recommended to reduce the chance of someone picking up my keyboard banking access data?

I figured out what has been happening. when portable firefox loads, it slowly shortens extensions.ini. while waiting, i can see extensions.ini has 20 entries, then a little later 15 entries, and in the end 0 entries. is there a reason it does this? also, sometimes it doesn't list my disabled extensions. when i copy the portablefirefox directory onto the computer, everything works fine. any advice?

I've searched in the forums and tried to make some of the changes described but have yet to successfully achieve what I'm after.

I want to be able to use my PFF on my flashdrive so that there is no evidence left on the computer I plugged it into. This is ideal for vacationing, libraries, friends and family computers, etc.

Currently, the only remaining evidence I've seen is that it continually creates a folder dir on the computer's hard drive of Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\ that contains an empty Profiles folder and a pluginreg.dat file.

Can someone very simply explain how to prevent this if it's possible? I say very simply because I think I found another post explaining this but was pretty lost in trying to work through it.

.. what am I doing wrong? I can start it up alright and it says it is connecting to the websiter but thats all I get. It's like it can not find the Internet connection. I tried to search here on the forum and google, but I must be using the wrong words. Please can you help this newby?

I would be very grateful to you.

Hello,

A number of people have asked for the FoxyProxy extension to work with Portable Firefox. I'm here to announce that the newest version, FoxyProxy 2.0, which was released on Saturday, does just that!

You can download it here:

http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/downloads.html

Regards,
Eric Jung

More of a firefox question than portable firefox specific, but can you have multiple home pages open at browser launch? I know with opera, you can save a session of however many pages, and when you open the browser, it will open those pages in seperate tabs.

Is there any way to do this in firefox?

I recently downloaded and started using portable firefox. I was very happy with it, so I loaded it onto a larger flash drive for actual travel use.

On the second drive, after reformatting and installing portableFF, when I launched the app my AntiVirus scanner shows the following alert:

Virus&Spy Protection has detected adaware.maxifiles..

From the Anti-virus website:

Maxifiles.com distributes spyware called Director. It runs hidden from the user and installs in a way to appear to be part of the operating system.

So I wiped the drive again, downloaded PFF from a different mirror, re-insatlled it, and get the same warning.

Upon install of the Adobe SVG plugin in PFF (v1.504), I believe the license acceptance is written to the registry of the host machine (WinXP). Is there anyway to get around this so there are no registry entries? Thanks.

Bob