Firefox Portable

I was wondering if it would be possible to build a Linux static portable version that can run from the same directory as the windows version. I use both OSes and it would be nice to be able to just run it from the usb drive in bot instead of copying profiles back and forth. This would be nice for portable gaim and Thunderbird too but figured Id ask about Firefox first.

I have got a 2g firefly as a gift and transfered all my apps to it but firefox seems slow and sometimes unresponsive. So then thought by transfer was bad and did a restore off a older backup. now its really slow (not even opening). So i decided to format the drive and put a clean copy of the suite(in process of doing now). my question is does anyone else have this drive and are you getting good results with it?

Dear Friends,

I use the Portable Firefox for little Web-Presentations on CD-Rom and I am very happy with it.

There is only a thing which is not so nice:
Because firefox starts from cd it copies itself into a temporary directory.
This process can take a really long time (over a minute or even more).

Because of that I created a little splash-screen with AutoIt which is shown when the FF is starting and disappears after the browser-window appears.

Well, now I want to show a little progressbar for the user - the loading process of the ff.
Maybe this is not implemented in ff. Then I could still create an own copy-routine with progress bar. - Where can I get such a thing?

I'm voting for something that might allow changes to Fx while running locally to be copied back to the flash drive it was launched from. The main computer I use FxP on has USB1.1, so I run locally. However, when I find an extension I'd like to install or whatnot, I have to close it, run from the flash drive to install, then relaunch locally. Is it possible to have the profile and/or data folders copied back to the flash drive when a locally run Fx is terminated?

I have a new mime type that I am working with and when I click on a file with that extension I do not receive the option to 'open' the file. My only options are 'save' and 'cancel'. I also do not have access to the check box that allows me to tell firefox to use the default application to handle this type. I would either like to setup an application to handle this type within firefox or get the download box to work correctly. Any help would be appreciated.

Kirk

Is there a way to change the title bar icon?

Thanks,
Scott

A few of us are wondering if or how a portable program such as FF and TB could be used as the default program in a desktop without installation of those normal -- non-portable programs.

The main question being would a portable version of an application be available to an OS to be set as default? And would there be any other complications or behavior changes??

Hello, I am aldreneo_aka_slyfox

co-creator of Splash! - The Splash Screen Extension
I was googling around and saw that some of your members recommended this extension.
I am currently developing splash! 2.0

I have had some complaints about Firefox portable and drive letters changing making the URL invalid...So I am adding relitive to Firefox binary URL support(!BIN!/splash.png)

I am also adding:
Update allwaysontop
Update close splash on main window to limit options(Because of the problems it causes with some options)
Update progress bar
Update in option screen preview so that it isn't so buggy

Although my question concerns Firefox 2.0, I'm interested in the generic question:
why install when there is portable version

- why would anyone want to install a program on hard disk when a portable version exists?

It seems a portable program is a cleaner / simpler solution in all respects than an installed program. (Less mess in the registry, no uninstall problems, and portable on movable devices.)

What am I missing? Are there *any* downsides to portable software (speed of execution, update...?)

Thanks

Hi

I sometimes can not intall add-ons with Firefox Portable.
It seems that I can not install another add-on after I installed one add-on (it is not because of a specific add-on, for everything).
Therefore, I had to restart firefox once to install one add-on.

What is going on?
My environment is Windows XP EN SP2.