Firefox Portable

Dear John T. Haller,

(I tried to PM this but i couldn't find your e-mailaddress..) I have been using Portable Firefox for a long time now (about 6 months) and LOVE that it works on USB-sticks and CD-ROM's. Actually the way i found it was that i was searching for a Firefox-browser for my Pocket PC, and it isn't THAT portable but still portable enough.

I use Firefox 1.5.0.6 with it and copy the \Data-directory every time i want to use a new profile for my PortableFirex-browser. Until recently this was adequate since all extensions and user data get copied with it, but then i discovered the Firefox Extension Backup Extension(FEBE) and thought that was a great way to manage my profiles. What i discovered was that FEBE looks at the profiles of the app\Firefox-browser and so doesn't allow you to do a re-install to the \PortableFirefox-browser. This was allright though, since i could still copy and zip the \Data-directory and get the same result.

I've posted a solution if you want to start Firefox Portable with within the Thunderbird Portable. So when you use Thunderbird Portable and right click on a link you can choose Firefox Portable. And when you from within Firefox Portable right click on a mailto link can choose Thunderbird Portable.

You can read how to do it at:
http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/08/30/using_launchyxml_to_start_firefox_portab...

Hi Guys,

I like to know how Firefox portable is different from a firefox that built and installed in a Flash

I built firefox(1.5.0.1) for ppc-linux and installed in my compact flash drive. Now I mount that flash on another machine as readonly media and execute.

I do have problem like 3 instances of forefox-bins are created and it hangs forever.

.mozilla folder is created in .root and have no issue with that.

How does the portable firefox different. do you need to do anything extra to make it work??

Regards,
Ravi

I just moved my Firefox (everything) from my USB drive to the hard drive, and now the Adblock Plus Preferences box appears, at first when I would press a button on the keyboard, and now when I change the site (could be triggered by master password prompt). The only change I made was setting the fixes so that they would adjust for drive letter and the directories so that they'd be accurate. I also got a few unresponsive script notices (quite odd), and I told it to continue on all of them. I've gotten those notices before, but only when a) an autoupdate was interrupted or otherwise messed up or b) when I use a USB1.1 port and have to adjust for drive letter changes with a lot of extension changes (e.g. pending installations).

Hi there,
I just trief the portable FF and I think it's great! Nice work.

I have a question though, which seems not to be answered in the FAQs. Does portable FF leave any traces on the PC it's used? If yes, what kind of?

Thanks and keep up the good work!

John,

If I have portable thunderbird running, and try to start portable firefox, I get the error that firefox is already running. If I have portable firefox running, and try to start portable thunderbird, I get the converse error about thunderbird.

I think it might be because two different instances of Gecko are running, and the first one locked the profile, while the latter is respawning trying to access it resulting in the concurrency error.

I have some new stuff to show you.

Steve

can somebody help me about running my portable firefox at my work's computer? it used to work no problem insert the usb drive click the icon firefox and its working, now yesterday when i clicked the icon nothing is happening anymore, something is blocking the firefox or something. any help would be aprreciated. thanks.

So after reading articles about spyware and USB drives... I was left with the question how do I scan a USB drive?

I know I can point my AV program to scan it, but how about any spyware? I can't seem to point a spyware scanner (I use current Spybod S+D) to the USB. Can't malware embed itself in my USB drive and still mess me up?

And when I surf anywhere with FFP, am I still protected by the friewall on the PC I'm using?

Anyone? Bueller?

I'm building a help and installation CD that will use a local PFF and as part of the process of installing applications I need to execute an exe file. When linking to an exe file I only get the option of saving it when I need to Run it.
What is the trick to enabling the Run for an executable and can I script that so the newbie users don't even see the Run/Save dialog?

There will be no Internet access and it will be a fully closed system so we should be able to relax the security settings.

PFF 1.5.0.6

Thanks

I am not able to install the cooliris extension on my portable firefox from www.cooliris.com. However, there are no problems when installing it on my regular firefox 1.5.0.6. Any suggestions?