Firefox Portable

For some reason, when I started my Firefox Portable today, my homepage settings wre changed with one window opening and 2 tabs displaying. I think one tab was the default Firefox search page, the other was a page explaining Session Manager). When I opened Firefox later, the same thing happened. Then, later I downloaded a file and upon completion, the file displayed in the Download Pop-up box (I used to have my settings NOT remember downloaded files). Also, in the privacy tab, Firefox was no longer set to clear my private data when I close Firfox (another setting I USED to have).

I have a problem with Firefox that's been for something like a month now...

When I start Firefox, websites load fast, nice and smoothly.
After a while, pages take a long time to load (sometimes wait for 5mins and nothing is loaded). All what I get is the loading circular progressbar in the tab.
Also, when I have multiple tabs running at the same time, I may get the same problem.

Usually, for me to solve this problem, I "End Process Tree" and reopen Firefox Portable then restore session (to avoid the loss of the contents of the other tabs), and then the webpage opens.

Hi...

When updating to the latest version of FF3 B5, portable style, as described here: https://portableapps.com/node/12311 I often at first-time-startup/opening get this window: http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/752/autoupdatelw2.png

If your not fast enough (I wasn't the first time, but now I'm always aware) to press the 'cancel', then when Firefox opens, all your extensions not compatible will be disabled. Son of a Bitch! (sorry, but this is really annoying)

It worked earlier today on my computer at work, now it starts, but won't connect to the 'net. Is it corrupted? If I re-install it, do I lose all my bookmarks and passwords? How do I re-install it without re-installing all the portable apps?

Would it be possible for you to make portable versions of Mozilla Firefox Campus Edition? I know that students who visit and use this site may find that useful because it comes preloaded with the addons FoxyTunes, StumbleUpon and Zotero. A little less work for them since then they wouldn't have to go find and download those addons. Just an idea.

Will portable firefox run properly without that whole folder(default data)? I'm just wondering because that folder takes about 6 mb, which is alot in terms of my pathetic flash drive, and I need to conserve as much space as possible.

I have tried to search for this but did not find anything. I apologise if this is a repetition.

Is there any way in Firefox to add a bookmark for a location on the memory stick? Obviously the main issue is that the mount point for the memory stick varies, so there is no fixed path?

An alternative would be the ability to add custom shortcuts to the portableapps launcher, to allow you to launch the portable firefox and thus pass a relative path in the command line to the document on the memory stick.

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Hey...

If you go to 'Help' -> 'About ...' in FF:
In the latest FF 3 Portable Beta 5, the version number is:
rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008-03-26-20 Firefox/3.0b5 ("-"'s added by me)

In my previous installed FF 3 Portable Beta 5pre trunk it was:
rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008-03-29-04 Minefield/3.0pre ("-"'s added by me)

And in the latest trunk from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ it is:
rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008-04-03-05 Minefield/3.0pre ("-"'s added by me)

I like the additional detail in the "Downloads" window box as well as the search feature, but why was the link to the "download" folder removed on the bottom as well as the "cleanup" button lower right-hand corner? That was always a handy feature in FF2. I'm sure an extension down the road will be available, but it seems that it should be a standard feature. I'm playing with the beta 5.

Hi,

I have my normal firefox installation set up with a junction in Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox pointing to a directory on another disk (So my config is seperate in case of reinstallation). Whenever I install and use FX Portable, this junction is deleted!

This happened in fx3 betas 3, 4 and 5.

There must be more ppl out there who use junctions -- has anybody else encountered this? It's pretty annoying

tia,
Wouter