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Hypothetically, how would a Portable-focused fork of Firefox work?

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Submitted by NathanJ79 on August 16, 2009 - 2:55am

Strictly hypothetically speaking, if someone were to recompile Firefox without the logo and name, and thus not be bound by the restrictions on Portable Firefox, what direction would we hypothetically want this to go?

1. Updates would be disabled, as they interfere with an installed Firefox. (They could be manually enabled if someone wanted it so.)

2. Session restore and the phishing protection would be disabled, as well as cache and history. All would be able to be manually enabled, again, of course.

Downgrade Firefox

Submitted by mlun on August 14, 2009 - 1:56am

Just "upgraded" to FF 3.5.2. from 3.0.13 or something like that I believe. Nothing but problems since, downloading doesn't work, tabs are just spinning without updating, crashed 2 times in 20 minutes etc.

Can anyone please tell how to downgrade the portable version?

Excessivly poor performance - 30-75 seconds to load up

Submitted by jamcomm on August 13, 2009 - 6:13am

I've just read a comment on this thread about firefox portable's pathetic performance when trying to start up (30 - 75 seconds).

I'm guessing this relates to the size of the software ("9MB download / 27-77MB installed"), and it trying to drag all this data into memory to start up.

Is there something that can be done to fix this problem? Adding a much more streamlined brower to portableapps.com perhaps?

If local Firefox is running, I can run Firefox Portable only with AllowMultipleInstance, but after that I can't open new window

Submitted by xMort on August 12, 2009 - 9:56am

My application needs to execute some URL. I need to open this URL in Firefox Portable. If there is a already installed and running other Firefox, than my Firefox Portable, FP will not execute (There is well know message about another running instance).

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