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Portable browsintg + privacy = feasible?

Submitted by clue-less on April 19, 2006 - 4:27pm

I'm using portable Firefox and am pretty happy with it.
Its privacy/security settings might not be perfect, but achieve the goal of leaving less information on all the PCs I'd be using.
With that taken care of, can there be solution for privacy on the server side?

For example, it's no secret sites in general, especially the ones requiring the logon collect vast amounts of information, with times and IPs of logins included.
Now, I would want to have control over which IP is shown, for example the same one (possibly bogus) all the time.

Is that something achievable at all? Already exi

Errrrr, anyone else have this problem?

Submitted by Jacoby on April 19, 2006 - 2:17am

Well, the 1.5.0.2 update runs fine for me. It does, however, break my ability to use Flash, or to reinstall flash, althought this may be an issue with macromedias site and not PFF. (says server not found.)

I use flash alot. My school uses it ALOT for instructional materials. (Flash papers).
And our school online learning center has flash elements that i can no longer use, not to mention Student Services.

I tried a fresh PFF installfrom sourceforge, did NOT install my extensions, in case one of them was the culprit, and updated to 1.5.0.2. Again, it broke. I luckily had a fresh backup. ( Monday night is my backup night, PHEW!!!).

Slow Start-UP, slow tab switching. HELP!

Submitted by nova_seph on April 16, 2006 - 1:38pm

**First of all, i am aware that this topic has been posted before, i just want to know if anyone can give me a personalized solution....please..

Hello! I am truly impressed of your webpage. It actually made me buy a USB pendrive! I'm currently using a lot of portable apps like:

* megairc
* eMule
* Portable Wackget
* Portable Gaim
* Portble Firefox
* HFS
* ...and 18 other apps+Damn Small Linux

Of these apps, my firefox launches the slowest (about 3 minutes). I think it may be because of my extensions which are:

* SearchPlugins Hack
* TabMix Plus

Unable to Connect

Submitted by TalkL8 on April 14, 2006 - 7:44pm

I installed 1.5.0.2 to my jumpdrive. I now can't connect to the internet. I can using IE but not PFF. I disabled all my extension and still was not able to connect to the internet. I have Yahoo IM running OK and ICQ so I know its not and ISP issue. I'm using cable and my connection settings are set at "Direct connection to the internet". What else could there be to keep the connection closed. I turned off the firewall to and still was unable to connet.

Not finding Extensions

Submitted by TalkL8 on April 8, 2006 - 1:18pm

Help!!

I installed the updates to firefox 1.5.0.1 when I received and upgrade notice. Now I don't have accessed to my extensions or themes. I can see them when I click on Tools->Extensions/Themes but they are ghosted out with a message that says I need to restart firefox. I've restarted FF several time but I still can't get the extensions or themes to become active.

What is the trick to fix this???

Thanks

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