Firefox Portable

Perhaps you might consider temporarily removing FF updates 3.5x from the PortableApps offerings.

Firefox 3.5 and 3.5.1 have a pernicious memory leakage, not attributed to any add-ons but to Firefox itself, where it constantly causes Warning: Low Memory warning messages and most of Firefox's functionality stops. Scripts stop running and the computer system can no longer properly display the Firefox browser window or message windows.

For more details, search the Mozilla Firefox forum for "Warning: Low Memory".

In the earlier versions I could do the following..
I set the cache to the temp file on the computer browser.cache.disk.parent_directory; C:\\WINDOWS\\Temp\\Temporary Internet Files

http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=5757

This meant that the flash drive didn't work so hard, as the pages were being cached on the local machine and deleted out afterwards. It made FF run faster, as the flash drive slowed it down. As well there was less wear on the drive itself, having a limited lifespan.

The download page for Firefox 3.5.1 is broken. Please get that fixed ASAP.

Hello guys,

I am "playing" with Portable Firefox so we can make an easy solution for on our network. Let's say I want the following situation:

- C:\ volume (local): Firefox Portable executables
- D:\ volume (network mapping): Firefox profile

I already tried this with a FirefoxPortable.ini with the following settings:

[FirefoxPortable]
FirefoxDirectory=App\firefox
ProfileDirectory=D:\Firefox
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
PluginsDirectory=Data\plugins
FirefoxExecutable=firefox.exe
AdditionalParameters=
LocalHomepage=
DisableSplashScreen=false


Does FFP use the user's default folder at

C:\Documents and Settings\*User*\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

or does it make use of a special folder? The reason I'm asking is because I sometimes find that my anti-virus picks up stuff that is left from sites I visited. When I clean these folders, it doesn't always seem to help.

I use FFP's built-in private data cleaner, as well as the Piriform CCleaner program.

Firefox portable is not truly independent. It cannot be run at the same time as the non-portable version. Trying to do that gives this error message: "Another instance of Firefox is already running. Please close other instances of Firefox before launching Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition."

As many of you already know, there are Community Builds of Mozilla Firefox available. These builds are optimized by alternating the way Firefox runs using different code of other such methods. The way PortableApps.com optimizes their builds is by using AppCompactor.

Note: This is not the same Firefox profile as the one indicated in this topic; it's the one on my flash drive, which was never used in that situation/test.

Is it just me, or does Amazon.com not like Firefox (Portable?) too much?

My wife's reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and asked me to order the second book online. I'm like, OK, fire up Firefox, hit Amazon.com... I got this funny "Associates Stripe" on the top that was acting funny, so I tried to disable it - crash. Went back in, figured I'd leave it alone, pulled up the page for the second Dark Tower book... crash.

At about line 477, below the "CheckIfRemoveLocalFiles:" label, I don't understand why there is a Pop $R0 command. Can somebody tell me why ?