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PROXY.PAC

Submitted by fujii13 on November 24, 2006 - 11:07am

I have my PAC file setup to use a proxy at work and not at home and it's worked out great in testing on my home and work laptops, but when I switch to my desktops, I run into some problems.
Since the laptops have a single optical drive, and the desktops have two optical drives, the drive letter for the PAC URL in PFF is wrong. That's fine for my home desktop b/c if the PAC file isn't found it switches to direct connection, but for my work PC (which I use primarily) the file isn't found and I get no connection until i redirect the file.
Is there any way to use a generic URL that points to wha

Use Which Plugin Folder ?

Submitted by PeterB on November 24, 2006 - 5:06am

Hi

When installing Plugins (Flash, Shockwave, etc.) I tried to follow the instructions at:

https://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#cd

Which says: ".. Copy the plugin .. to your FirefoxPortable\plugins directory"

However my Firefox Portable has 3 plugins directories:

..\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\plugins
..\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\plugins
..\FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins

Which plugin folder should I use or does it matter ?

Problem in allways check to see if Portable Firefox is my default browser at startup

Submitted by and73nxcyr6a93h... on November 23, 2006 - 7:17am

I'm using the portable firefox ver. 2.0 and everytime I start it up I have to check manually if it's my default browser. It seems that it's not memorizing the "Allways check to see if Firefox is my default browser at startup".

Anyone knows what to do?

Ulisses

Firefox very slow and sometimes unresponsive - any ideas?

Submitted by mudroads on November 23, 2006 - 1:10am

I am using Firefox portable from a USB drive in internet cafes in Thailand. The drive is USB 2, but most of the computers are the slower USB 1.

I find that Firefox is very slow to load (approx 2 minutes) and sometimes slow to respond (perhaps when it is loading a page) - I just have to wait for it to finish whatever it was doing and the hourglass goes away before I can e.g navigate in the bookmark menu. Also if I delete or add a bookmark, this takes perhaps more than half a minute before I can do anything else. When closing Firefox, the application disappears immediately, but firefox.exe persists in the processes for some time.

Open Recently Closed Tabs? Where is it in Firefox 2

Submitted by mikecorry on November 22, 2006 - 10:24am

My option to re-open recently closed tabs is missing in my new FF2.o install.

What gives? Please forgive my lack of decorum but I'm new to the forum.

It's just not there - File, Edit, View, Bookmarks, Tools, Help

Extensions

Download Statusbar
Foxmarks
IE TAB
More Tools Menu
Mouse Gestures
Tabbrowser Prefs
UI Tweaker

Run locally

Submitted by celtickuja on November 22, 2006 - 10:20am

I just learned about the RunLocally entry in FirefoxPortable.ini, and I gotta say, I love it for using on my work computer, as it only has USB1.1 and running an app off that is miserably slow. However, I'd like an option on the Suite's launcher to run locally or run from USB. I don't want to have to modify that ini file everytime I go anywhere else (running from USB is preferred under other environments both for security and because I play with installing and removing extensions quite often). Other than that, I must say I've converted from a pretty hardcore U3 fan to using your launcher almost exclusively. I only keep U3 on my drive for the few U3 specific programs I have (QuickPhrase, Winamp, and Foxit Reader).

Downloading Bug

Submitted by Matrixboy on November 22, 2006 - 9:33am

I am not sure the version number... but the version that I had found in the Suite seems to have problems downloading plugins, stuff from here, ANYTHING.

It works at times, and others it does not.

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