Firefox Portable

Hi I read that the latest version of Firefox supports relative path names. I am able to access an .html file no problem using an absolute path (file://c:/whatever)

I was wondering how to form an absolute path in the url box, and a nice thing to know was if Firefox has any predefined paths I can take advantage of.

Thanks,

Jay

Hello, I am using Firefox Portable on my USB-key for quite some time now, it's great. I have a TrueCrypt volume on that USB-key as well, and I was thinking of moving the FirefoxPortable folder into that volume for added security.

- Can I just move the folder into the volume, or should I reinstall to the volume?
- Has anyone had any troubles with Firefox Portable running off a mounted TrueCrypt volume?

- Moe

I recently discovered that Firefox Portable is not allowing me to save bookmarks at all. What could be a reason for this problem?

Link on Portable Apps Start Menu Doesn't Launch Firefox
Firefox splash screen appears, then dissapears but the browser doesn't appear.
I reinstalled the Firefox portable app and it is still the same. I am currently running on a Windows XP PC and the portable app is on a portable hard drive. This previously worked fine on this PC and another (Vista) PC yeasterday using the same portable drive.
Portable Apps version is 1.5.2, Firefox 3.0.8
I had a number of Add-Ons in Firefox and these worked OK.
Other portable apps start and work as expected.
I hope someone can help me with this.

Hi, I found a way to make firefox portable virtually lagless. I'm not sure if this has been already suggested, but you can just make a batch file to copy it to a temporary directory, and then run it on the hard drive. Then, when you're done, you can copy to back to your USB drive.

Here is one I made:
@ECHO OFF
ECHO Creating temporary directory for firefox potable
PAUSE
MKDIR %temp%\FFXP
ECHO Copying firefox to temp directory
PAUSE
XCOPY /E /Q FirefoxPortable %temp%\FFXP
ECHO Starting firefox
PAUSE
%temp%\FFXP\FirefoxPortable.exe
ECHO Saving changes to USB device
PAUSE

I'm setting up a new Firefox Poratable app on a flash drive and want to make sure that I do so correctly using a local profile other than the default.

Using the instructions on the site, I determined where to look for the Local Profile and found as I suspected two. One of course is called the Default and the other is one which I'll call "Enhanced Basic". I tried copying this profile previously into another flash drive but it did not appear to take.

My Firefox add-ons (extensions and themes) have disappeared from the browser. They are all still listed as installed in the add-ons box under the Tools menu, but none of them are usable. All of my bookmarks are present, so I don't think I've completed deleted my profile. Any ideas? Thanks.

I think Firefox portable would be a lot faster if it had the option to use a directory of the current computer for the cache, for example, %TEMP%\FirefoxPortable. This folder would be deleted after Firefox was closed.

HI

I put in a USB stick, Portable Firefox 3.xx.

I started Windows PE 2.1, suitable to work with 64-bit operating systems, and I tried to start Firefox Portable writing, from the directory of that program, the command FirefoxPortable.exe but the shell of Windows PE writes "Could not execute the specified program ". Why?

THANKS

BYE

Hi,

Im using FF portable 3.0.7, and the newest version (3.x) normally installed on HDD.

If i export the bookmarks normally as .json file from the HDD-FF, and then import them into the the portable one with Bookmarks-manager -> import -> restore... then after a restart the bookmarks are gone again.

Why is that? I found a posting here saying u can do it with the portable app suite, which i actually don't use right now, cause i only need like 3 PortableApps on my stick.

Whats the best way to do it? With the suite only?

regards,
NullDevice