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Portable FF 30 crashes (cache problem)

Submitted by Burzemon on June 12, 2014 - 4:54pm

Portable FF 30 crashes (becomes a black window and error message appears) when browsing pages with lots of gif-animation or map sites with lots of photos (such as wikimapia.org, panoramio.com, maps.google.com).
This is closely connected with RAM-cache: if you open Task manager (ctrl+shift+esc), then open wikimapia.org, for example, and zoom in and out looking at some pictures, you can see how high memory usage is growing. On my PC it reaches about 2.3 - 2.5 Gb out of 4 Gb of RAM installed (Windows 7 32bit) and crashes.
This happens on clean Firefox Portable (no add-ons installed).

Tabs/windows not synced

Submitted by dodi on May 26, 2014 - 5:31pm

I switch between an installed version of Firefox, Firefox Portable and Firefox on Android. I set up Firefox Sync on all 3. Since I use Firefox Portable most of the time, I would like to have its tabs/windows and bookmarks synchronized to the installed and the Android version - that's what I understand Firefox Sync is supposed to do. But ...

- tabs/windows are not synced between portable and installed Firefox (although bookmarks are synced)
- bookmarks are not synced between portable and Android Firefox (although tabs/windows are synced)

Local profile gone after install

Submitted by drew.w on May 19, 2014 - 1:42pm

Hi Folks,

After installing Portable Firefox on a thumbdrive, the local PC installation of Firefox has lost my local profile. Is there a special install method to avoid this or have I done something wrong?

My Windows 7 installation of Firefox uses Junction Points from the C: to D: drives:

C:\Users\Drew\AppData\Roaming\Firefox -> D:\Users\Drew\AppData\Roaming\Firefox

It appears that the Junction Point is removed by the Portable Firefox installation process Sad

Taking a profile from XP to Win 7, flash stops working

Submitted by Muffinman123 on May 19, 2014 - 8:44am

I have been having this problem since firefox single digit versions.

if I use a fresh install of firefox portable on win 7 with portable flash, it works just fine, but if I take a frequently used firefox portable from win XP, flash player just refuses to work and freezes my browser or makes it extremely slow.

I have all the plugins and settings all set for this profile, and simply copying my XP profile to a win 7 install will retain this problem anyway. what can I do to make the flash player work without creating a new profile?

Tor plugins?

Submitted by farat_as on May 18, 2014 - 5:11pm

Hi,

We have discuss on this forums about Tor browser which can not distribute by portableapps.com. Tor browser bundle can not update itself. But each week new updates are releasing.

Tor browser based on Firefox. So if we install Tor plugins on Firefox, we will not need tor browser (at least for most things).

I search a little bit but I could not find... Where are the tor plugins for Firefox exactly? What should I do to my Firefox to surf on Deep web?

Thank you

Need a recent "previous version" of Firefox

Submitted by dlwatib on May 18, 2014 - 3:04am

Firefox users never know whether they're going to get a box of chocolates or a box of coal when they upgrade to the latest version of Firefox. Our favorite add-ons may work with the new version, and our favorite sites like youtube may work fine, but if not then we may need to go back to the previous version. But we sure don't want to go back all the way to version 3.x.x. It would really be helpful to keep one or two of the relatively up-to-date versions. If the latest is version 29, then keep version 28 and 27 until version 30 is ready, please.

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