Firefox Portable

I am attempting to install and run Firefox Portable on a RamDisk. My machine is running Windows 7 and followed a Wiki How article: "http://www.wikihow.com/Speed-Up-Firefox-by-Running-It-In-RAM" which was apparently written for Windows XP users. I modified the procedure for Windows 7 using TaskManager to run the batch files to copy and save Firefox and it appeared that everything was set up correctly.

I've noticed numerous threads concerning issues running your native C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox at the same time as the PortableApps version, but how about these two different versions running off your USB at the same time?

Will that also leave bits behind, even though I'd never open the native version off my HD at the same time?

I have put my portable apps collection on a clouddrive and i want to put the profile directory out of the portable apps root folder. Thats because the reads/writes to the profile data is rather slow on this clouddrive. Unfortunately the FirefoxPortable.ini "ProfileDirectory=Data\profile" always expects a relative path from the Portable root. Instead i want to use a relative or absolute path that can be outside. This way FF can use its own sync feature rather than the constant read/writes i get on the profile folder of the cloud filesystem.

Hi

I've been using FF portable for quite a long time : I use it on a PC used at the office where installing any application is blocked (setup requires admin rights).

FF has been upgrading automatically quite fine over the time, ie the integrated upgrade function (from the "about" window) is not blocked.

So did it upgrade to FF 42, but then things went bad.

Anyone else trying to install/extract Firefox 42.0? I double click but nothing happens. The pointer flashes for a few seconds and then nothing. Nothing is running in the background and I can install anything else. I have admin access and running as admin generates the same result.

Anyone else running into this? I haven't updated my portable version in a while so it may be something recent that changed?

Firefox stable fresh install won't access the web:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d9s02jxfi7msz44/firefox%20portable.png?dl=0

Have other browsers installed like Chrome and don't have those issues.

To whom it may concern...

I found that to run current versions of Firefox - also including ESR and SeaMonkey - the file pdh.dll is missing in \FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox. You will get the following error message: "XPCOM is missing"

As it looks you can use any 32bit pdh.dll as far back as Windows 6 (Vista) - works also on all newer WindowsPE versions including Windows 10 PE or Core.

If you have a 64bit Windows install copy pdh.dll from %windir%\SysWOW64\pdh.dll

Maybe recommended to the maintainer of this Portable App to include the DLL in future releases.

Hi,

I think, that the version which I can download at
https://portableapps.com/de/apps/internet/firefox_portable
is the 32-Bit-Version. Is it planed to create also a portable version of the new 64-Bit-Firefox which is available since yesterday (Version 42)?

Thank you!
Magistus...

I recently configured a new laptop with a dual boot system, Win 7 Pro and Win 10 Ent. I have a third partition that each can see and that is where my portable app platform is installed. When I click on the shortcut FirefoxPortable.exe everything works fine from both OS's. However, the first time I opened the app a Mozilla page came up and asked if I wanted to make Firefox my default browser. Of course I said sure. Now, if I click the FirefoxPortable.exe shortcut everything still works fine. However, the problem that occurs, is when I click a link from a non Firefox source.

Am I correct that when PortableApps updates Firefox it overwrites PROFILES.INI in the ...\App\Firefox directory?

This gives me a problem in that I have several profile pointers set in that file that I have to re-create after every update.

Is that the intended behavior?

Best wishes