Firefox Portable

Hello,
I'm using Firefox on my own private machines and I find it runs perfectly.
Now I tried since FF 30 the portable version and I found that pages are rendered differently than Firefox installed versions.
You can reproduce this and see the differences by visiting pages on www.t-online.de.
Here are on multiple pages boxes containing social media bookmarks and also links for printing, mailing and settings. The installed version of Firefox shows these boxes as expected. Only in ff portable these boxes are shown in a strange way.
What please can be the reason? Are some settings wrong?

There's a bug in Firefox 32, that some tabs miss the favicons: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061456
The bug is caused by the introduction of the new cache and shows up in case pref "browser.cache.disk.enable" is set to "0" and "browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled" set to "false".

IIRC, the portable container for firefox sets those values forcefully, that's why I'm writing this here.

n6w36 mentioned the reason why flash portable doesn't work on any computer was because adobe added protected mode last year
https://portableapps.com/node/37978
and he mentioned the users can only disable it if they have admin access

but one thing I noticed is that protected mode setting doesn't affect opera 12 portable which came out this april. until I came across n6w36's solution, I was using opera all this time. having 2 browsers at the same time was a resource hog sure, but opera 12 portable was the only thing that could use flash at the time.

so this brings the question

howdy,
Do i absolutely need to install Mozilla Firefox on my pc hard drive to run/use MozFireFoxPortable from an external thumb drive ?

i've been trying to use MFFPortable for several days and am as confused as hell whether i'm in MozFF or MozFFPortable. most of the time i am certain i'm in the MozFF application and not using the portable

FFPortable says their product is sooooooooo easy to install; well it was "easy". they don't say it is easy to USE and SETUP with confidence, or to move the profile and favorites from MozFF to MozFFPortable

Here's download link for the latest version of Firefox Portable for Mac, packaged as a dmg installer. Enjoy.

Firefox Portable Mac OS download link.

PS: You have to "Allow apps downloaded from Anywhere" in your Security and Privacy settings for this to run.

Our NetGear network switches can only be managed by particular versions of particular web browsers. The best one right now is Firefox Extended Support Release 17.0.7. We can not upgrade to new versions of their firmware without an old webbrowser. At least it is not as bad as only working with IE6 in a largely Linux shop ( nightmares of the Linksys SRW24 ).

i am very very familiar with having Firefox use multiple profiles but i have been spending all day to try to get this to work with FirefoxESR 17.

Hello

Is there a way to add a shortcut to start Firefox directly with -private argument?

Well, I had all the update stuff turned off, and I got an update anyhow.. It makes flash videos skip, take forever to buffer, and the sync is terrible..

Basically the new versions completely broke flash and made me leave my cherished firefox browser for Chrome territory.

Now, I want to go back, but the ESR version just seems REALLY outdated. I'm assuming that's the only option, though, correct?

According to Mozilla Firefox ESR life cycle (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/), Firefox ESR 24.7.0 and Firefox ESR 31.0 release at the same time.
So when will we switch to Firefox ESR 31.0 ?

file linked from https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test gives installer file not found error constantly with several tries. I guess eventually things will sort out, but for now nightly would probably be better off linked to previous version or be fixed preferably.