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DOM Inspector

Submitted by TehOne on May 9, 2006 - 2:31pm

I just started using the v1.5.0.3 of Portable Firefox. I started from scratch with this one, installing plugins from scratch etc... I have only one problem. I don't appear to have the DOM Inspector installed. How can I add this extenstion to my v1.5.0.3 Portable Firefox?

Thanks.

Two plugin directories?

Submitted by KevinTMC on May 9, 2006 - 11:20am

I've noticed that there are two different plugin directories in my PFF 1.5.0.3.

All the plugins I had installed in previous versions are found here:

G:\PortableFirefox\Data\plugins

Whereas when I installed Flash using the extension posted on the PFF page, the files went here:

G:\PortableFirefox\App\firefox\plugins

Is this okay? Do I need to harmonize these directories, move anything around...or just relax and enjoy?

P.S. I've got two searchplugins directories too, at G:\PortableFirefox\App\firefox\searchplugins and G:\PortableFirefox\Data\profile\searchplugins. Same answer th

lost my bookmarks?

Submitted by RickW on May 8, 2006 - 2:40pm

on my home computer i was able to get the wanted harddrive bookmarks imported into the portable app on my usb drive. when i plugged the usb drive into the office computer i used pass2go to access PFF and the splash screen did not appear but FF did. pass2go wasnt working properly so i decided to open FF directly from the usb drive. got the splash screen and pass2go was then working properly, but my usb bookmarks are gone. did the harddrive access on the office computer overwrite my bookmarks?

thanks,

No gif Pictures in Amazon HomePage in Europe

Submitted by PMHoyland on May 8, 2006 - 8:01am

When accessing the German Amazon Home Page (www.amazon.de) with PortableFirefox 1.5.03 none of the gif Pictures contained in the Page are shown,with the result that it is virtually unuseable. This also applies for the british Amazon WWW.Amazon.co.uk.

When calling the US Amazon (www.amazon.com) then the home page is displayed correctly with all included gifs.

Switching AdBlock on and off has no effect on the above described behaviour. The normal FireFox (non Portable) does not display the above effects it displays the German and UK Amazon correctly. The 2 FireFox versions are identical and have identical extension installed. Operating System is Windows XP German.

Curious FF 1.5.0.3 behaviour regarding passwords

Submitted by abochert on May 8, 2006 - 2:05am

Hi all,

I've upgrated my portable Firefox to 1.5.0.3.
I've copied then my orig profile from the old version
into the new version within PortableFirefox\Data\profile.
Everything works fine (bookmarks, extensions...) except
my passwords - Firefox doesn't recognize my old passwords
anymore (I've copied the whole profile including signons.txt
and key3.db).
In case to post here this topic I had to register to this forum
and Firefox saved (after asking for it) my portableapps.com-forum
password without any problem - now I can see it under
'Options->Passwords->View Saved Passwords' as the only saved password.

Local profile transfer unsuccessful

Submitted by dewittified on May 7, 2006 - 5:32pm

If this is posted elsewhere I apologize, I was unable to find a solution. Transferring my local profile into Portable Firefox has never worked. At this point I understand there may be incompatible extensions, but ambiguous terms like "except cache directory" may be confusing me. I only see an extension.cache "file." Is there some specific file to file instructions, or possibly a diagram showing the correlating directory tree between local Firefox and the portable version, i.e. some way to match a particular local folder with its replacement portable version so I can copy my working profile? I recently downloaded the U3 version and need to know how to very carefully manipulate the two profiles.

Is there a version out there without the splash screen?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on May 6, 2006 - 11:01pm

To be blunt:

Whenever I run portablefirefox, of course, the splash screen pops up. I don't like this. I find it very annoying. It does not waste a huge amount of my time, I just find it, y'know, annoying. Is there a version out there without the splash screen?

Or if not, I know it can't be changed from the about:config, and I know from previous topics on this forum that the entire installer would have to be recompiled or something from source.

I don't know much about computers. I don't want to spend three days figuring out how to do that. Could someone else who knows how to do something like this do this? Or, in future forms of portable firefox, could it just come without a splash screen like regular firefox?

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