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Eliminating pluginreg.dat & Mozilla folder on local machine

Submitted by doogie on January 10, 2006 - 1:27pm

Hi, I just started using PFF and it's great. Hopefully someone can help me

I wish to avoid the known issue mentioned in the README file, which states:
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LOCAL FILES CREATED - A directory (%userprofile%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox) is created on the local machine (if Firefox is not installed locally) and a pluginreg.dat file is created within it. This is a limitation of Firefox itself. If you set the UserProfile directory within the INI file, this will not happen.
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Which INI file are we talking about here? I assumed the PortableFirefox.ini file is being referenced, and I changed this line from

Installing extension in HD first then move whole portable ff to flash drive

Submitted by OP4 Latino on January 10, 2006 - 1:04am

Hi, I got a new flash drive and I want to install portable ff and this is what I thought to do

1. Download the zip from this site
2. Unzip it somewhere in HDD (C:)
3. Install extensions because HDD access is faster than Flash drive
4. Move the whole DIR to the flash drive

Can I do that? would it corrupt something?

Thanks

PFF issues on XP

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 9, 2006 - 5:17pm

I normally use PFF on a Win2000 machine at work (that does not have regular Firefox installed). It works fine. When I try to use PFF with my thumb drive on any XP machine (that has Firefox on them), it does not start up. When I installed I took the default directory structure and haven't renamed anything. Any suggestions? TIA

Shockwave plug-in blues

Submitted by roryks on January 7, 2006 - 9:14am

Off the bat, I assure you that I have followed the instructions carefully on installing the shockwave plugin...but still I am having no joy. At no point does it give me the option of choosing the browser. Now, shockwave is installed on my laptop but it is not recognized by firefox - only IE. I am running Windows XP.

Any suggestions?

pFF won't load

Submitted by daenyth on January 6, 2006 - 3:41pm

i've had this before, i run the launcher program, and firefox won't load. or, more accurately, when i check the task manager the process is running, but without a window. last time i had no clue why and eventually had to reinstall it to get it working again. this time it happened right after firefox crashed, so i think thats why it happened. im trying a few differant things right now, but does anyone know a way to fix this?

RSS Bookmarks broken with pff

Submitted by Seven Alive on January 6, 2006 - 3:19pm

I noticed that Portable Firefox breaks the Live bookmarks. Also there is another problem. I have gmail and i have the google personal page set 2 my homepage
when i startup Firefox it says sign in button, so i click it and my page shows (didn't prompt for username or password) or if i press homepage again my homepage displays properly. It only happens on pFf startup. If i press homepage toolbar button, my google personal page shows up (it does not say sign it).

It is probably a Ff issue but i only use PFf.

Extensions lost when drive letter

Submitted by rwald on January 5, 2006 - 8:32pm

When I installed all of Firefox's extensions, the drive letter of my thumb drive was E:. Now that I'm on a different machine and the drive letter is F:, all of my extensions don't run. They're still in the PortableFirefox\profile\extensions directory; it's just as though Firefox isn't reading the drive letter correctly. Is this a known problem, and what can I do to fix it?

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