Firefox Portable

And I think it was you guys...

I have version 3.0.16. I DO NOT want your new versions, thank you.

This morning I was hijacked to a page saying my version was out of date. The despicable thing even used "tabs".

This spyware/update/malware/virus:

Added line at the top with "Most Visited", "Getting Started", and other useless garbage.

Added a "Wick-i-garbage" box.

Changed my settings to allow BOTH Java and Java script!!!

Dear users,

a couple of days ago I setted my FirefoxPortable exactly as my pc-located Firefox: I imported on FF Portable all the preferences from FF "Regular".

Now it's hard for me to immediately understand if the open window of the browser belongs to the "Regular" or to the Portable version.

Of course I could modify a little detail on one of them (change the position of a bookmark in the bookmarks toolbar, change graphical theme ecc. on one of them), or open the task manager to verify if FirefoxPortable.exe is working.

After working right when I first installed it, I invoked Firefox Portable (on Windows 7) and found myself looking at what appeared to be my regular Firefox browser, based on the tabs I had open and other settings. I checked Task Manager, and it was really tbb-firefox.exe that was running. I searched the support site, and based on advice I found there I went into \Tor Browser\FirefoxPortable\Data\settings and renamed the FirefoxPortableSettings.ini file, then reran Firefox Portable, and it worked as expected.

As this is something I notice within Firefox I'll post this here even though it is also related to Thunderbird. This is an interesting albeit frequent annoyance. TB has no problem launching the FF app from a link within an email message but once FF launches all of my bookmarks are no longer visible. What I do get is the equivalent of another profile where I can bookmark etc. If I launch FF directly this is not a problem only when launching from within TB. Can't speak for other apps as I haven't attempted to test that out. Anyone else seen this?

Hi guys, im trying to find an answer for my issue
but i had no choice but to ask here now,,,

i was using firefox portable v10 for quite some time
and all was perfect...

now i saw v11 and i downloaded it,
ported all my profile from v10 to my new v11
and all seemed fine...

but now, my keyboard keys appear incorrect in v11 ...
like when typing like i do now,
i can't make apostrophes using the same keys like in v10 ...

same for The at sign --> @

in FF v10,
which i still have till i resolve my issue,
i only have to hit CTRL + ALT + 2
to make The at sign..

By default cache files are saved to Data\profile\Cache i want to change it to Data\Cache . so how can i do so?

I've posted before about not being able to use the latest Flash plugin in Firefox portable for You Tube videos; nothing's worked except using the older plugin (10.0.32) which isn't really secure. That works fine, though. In reading the installation directions on this site, it mentions an extension you can use instead of a plugin, but the link there is dead. Is there still a current .xpi, and if so, I'm willing to give it a try if someone can share the link here. Thanks.

When I run Firefox Portable, a Mozilla folder is created under %APPDATA% with the following structure:

%APPDATA%
->Mozilla
-->Extensions
-->Firefox
--->Crash Reports
---->InstallTime20120312181643 (file)

Its not personal information however how can I stop it?

Whenever I try to update or do a full reinstall beyond version #8, McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention (at work) stops the application from running. The message type is "Attack Type: Suspicious Function Invocation." I do not get this error with anything at or below v8.0

On my home computer, Firefox 11 works fine from the USB.

Thoughts on something that I could fix? (other than stopping McAfee)

Thanks
Brock

Firefox does not show bookmarks when I use my Mac at home running under Wine. All my office computers are Windows, and it works fine there. is this an issue with firefox or just an incompatability between windows and Mac formatting of the way the bookmarks are saved?

Also Addons do not carry over from Windows to Mac either.