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Email link tries to start new instance of Thunderbird Portable

Submitted by OsakaWebbie on October 7, 2016 - 9:36am

I use Portable Apps on my hard drive (to keep from getting tangled in the registry so I can be portable if I need to). My default email program is set to Thunderbird Portable in both Windows 10 and FF Portable. But if TB Portable is running (as it almost always is) and I click on an email link on a webpage, instead of just opening a composition window, I get: "Another instance of Thunderbird is already running. Please close other instances of Thunderbird before launching Thunderbird, Portable Edition." Is there a setting I need to fix somehow?

Very Slow Page Loading after Initializing FF Portable v49

Submitted by BPaul_H on October 2, 2016 - 7:40pm

After opening Firefox Portable (v49) I try to open another site from my favorites (or open a tab and enter a url (e.g. www.google.com) directly. The spinning icon just spins and the site doesn't open. If I copy the same url entered into Chrome or IE the site opens immediately. I use two add-ins, Ghostery and ABP. When I try to open FF without add-ins I can't. When I disable those add-ins, via the FF menu, this doesn't seem to help. I have no proxy setting. After a while (15 min or so) sites start responding more quickly.

Firefox non-Release channels

Submitted by what2say on September 24, 2016 - 9:34am

Any word on when the Firefox non-Release channels will be updated? (Or the Beta channel anyway.)
Should the request be added to the following thread, or is that just for the Release channel: https://portableapps.com/development/outdated
Or is it safe to assume that you're already working on them since most of the channels increment at the same time?
Thanks.

Firefox 49 not detecting Java portable

Submitted by Xpdite on September 23, 2016 - 1:45pm

We have been running Firefox portable now for years with much success. Lately we have been having some problems. We currently have version 47 portable deployed with Java 1.8.101 and all is working well. (Other than when you check the version it says there are no updates)

I have updated to version 48 and Java still detects under the plugin fine. Once I update to version 49 java and a few other plugs are no lover visible under the plugins tab on Firefox.

Firefox detects no new updates

Submitted by back on September 22, 2016 - 8:54am

HI @all,

I have installed Firefox on several PC´s. These PC´s are all clones of each other.
On some PC´s Firefox automatically detectes an Update and askes if it should be installed.
But on some PC´s Firefox doesn´t detect an Update. In the Menu "About Firefox" it checks for Updates and says that Version 47.1 or 48.2 is newest and no Update is availible. The actual Version is 49.0.
How can i fix this ?

All bookmarks have disappeared and restore option fails

Submitted by PetersT on September 10, 2016 - 9:23am

Yesterday (9-Sep-2016) my bookmarks in FFP suddenly disappeared. In addition, when I click the bookmarks icon, the panel of bookmarks no longer appears on the right side of the screen. If I select Show All Bookmarks, a "Library" window opens, but is empty. If, from that Library window, I take the option to Restore (under Import and Backup) , I get a pop-up saying "Unable to process the backup file". I tried numerous back-ups that Firefox had created, but got the same message every time.

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