Firefox Portable

Hi all (and John )

From addon scope, the special path UAppData does not update for FirefoxPortable, is there a way I can calculate this path in my addon.

Special path obtained by: Cc["@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1"].getService(Ci.nsIProperties).get('KEYWORD_HERE', Ci.nsIFile).path;

UAppData is giving me: C:\Users\C71ZQW1\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox
This path is valid IF and only if Firefox was HARD/FULL installed (as in not portable) to anywhere on the C drive.

But I have installed FireefoxPortable to: C:\Users\C71ZQW1\Desktop\FirefoxPortable

Firefox Nightly 32 Update failed and now I get this message when I try to start firefox from bookmark shortcuts.

"Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition cannot be started. You may wish to re-install to fix this issue. (ERROR: firefox.exe could not be found)"

And I get "Access Denied" for certain folder (Other, App\AppInfo, DefaultData\*, etc) into MyApps\FirefoxPortableNightly

Now I cannot update it or even deleting the folder because of access rights

Please help

Thanks

I have installed this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switchy/
and i am able to run two profiles in the same time with it and i have also set "false" for AllowMultipleInstances.

Hi there,
I'm an addon developer and was trying to support portable with my addon.

I need a way to detect if the firefox my profile is running from is portable, can you please help me on how i can do this?

One way I thought of was searching the directory for profiles.ini, but if the user has non-portable firefox installed, and also portable firefox installed, this method will not work.

Thanks

Hi all,
If I open from command line (Win + R):
"FirefoxPortable.exe" -ProfileManager

It launches profile manager and i can make profiles and launch them, is it still portable at this point? I make profile in custom folder on my desktop.

Whenever I do this though Firefox is reading/creating profiles.ini at "C:\Documents and Settings\Noitidart\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox"

this is equivalent to: alert(OS.Constants.Path.userApplicationDataDir);

Is there any way to make it read profiles.ini from my FirefoxPortable directory?

- Can you tell me exactly what parameters are changed compared to default Firefox parameters? So I can replicate this profile by myself.

- Since I have the Private Browsing profile as well if I run the main Firefox I still get the Private Browsing icon for the browser. Kind of misleading. (Would be nice to run both profiles at the same time, though: https://portableapps.com/node/41420 )

- Is Firefox in any way, shape or form more secure or private in your opinion than Chrome? Would be interesting to see a Chrome version of a similar profile. (Esp. if I can run it simultaneously;)

Hi there,
I created an addon "Profilist" and people are asking me to support portable.

My addon creates new profile, renames, deletes, and switches profiles from the australis menu.

But profile handling in portable is a bit odd. There isn't even a profiles.ini file.

I saw the FirefoxPortable2ndProfile, which copies some basic stuff, so that was one approach but to keep things similar to release version I went with a profiles.ini approach.

Hi there,

I have troubles to get Firefox Portable working with Flash Portable.

I downloaded the Adobe Flash dll from here [1] and put it into \Data\plugins.

However, when I open a website that requires Flash, Firefox ends up in an endless loop. After a while I am asked if I want to stop the script from running.

Can anyone confirm issues with Firefox Portable and Flash support or is it working smoothly for you?

Thanks for your responses!

When using Firefox 29 portable I find that it is no longer possible to upload files to Gmx.com online file storage, nor to access Gmx.com file storage to download files from there, although Gmx.com webmail works normally. Online file storage tries to start, but does not complete the operation.

It has been possible with Firefox portable version 28 and earlier Firefox portable versions - and it works again when returning to use Firefox 28 portable again now, so this is clearly a problem specific to Firefox 29 portable.

Hi.

I'd like to use a path to a local .html file for 'browser.newtab.url' about:config pref.
The .html-file that path points to - is in the FirefoxPortable folder, just next to firefoxpotable.exe.

How to assign a value so, that the path would be relative to firefoxportable folder?

If I assign a static path - it will stop working as soon as I move FirefoxPortable folder to a different place.