Firefox Portable

I set up Firefox Portable 1.5.0.7 as the instructions stated for running on a CD. I have it being burned to a CD using BartPE (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/) as the boot environment.

When I boot from this disc, I'm running into two problems:

1. Firefox Portable tells me it won't run from a Read Only drive, however, I thought it was supposed to be able to run from a CD. So, what's going on?

2. If I try to bypass the first issue by copying the Firefox Portable directory onto a hard drive and running it from there, it never comes up. The task manager shows both firefox.exe and firefoxportable.exe processes running, but I don't actually have a window.

I'm looking for Ryan's app to make PFF the default browser but his site doesn't seem to be working ... anywhere else to get this?

Stew

I know that this is not the right place to ask this. I have tried their support forum for help but no dice.

I am having trouble uninstalling Adblock FiltersetG Updater from my extensions list.

See here: http://www.jasnetworks.net/robinsnest/adblock.jpg

Is there a way to manually delete it?

BTW - FFP 1.5.0.7 (not U3)

Hello!

Since I installed Firefox to my USB stick the local firefox installation on my desktop PC stopped remembering form data (search fields, quick search field in firefox, etc.). That is, it only remembers the data for the current session, but after i close all instances of FF all form data is lost.

tools -> options > saved forms -> save form data is checked

i also tried checking and checking it but the problem remains.

any ideas?

... or can I? I get an error message that "Another instance of Firefox is already running."

I need to run two separate versions for me and my partner, both who use the same logon on our XP box.

Thanks.

Hiho,
I'm using the FF extension "Download Statusbar". In the Preferences
I can choose, to trim the History to a Userspecified number. If I enter zero,
the entry will deleted after the download. Am I able in this way to disable
the safe (and temporary save) of the downloadhistory???

^^ I'm aksing because the USB Stick livetime.

Bye, Andi

PS: If you find misstakes in my english please correct them and post them
^^ I'm learning english since 3 years and a correction may help me to get better.
Thanks.

I read the instructions to copy from C:\documents and settings\[user]\application data\mozilla\firefox\profiles\default.???

Once I get to [user], I am unable fo find the next step = application data under any of the users (home computer) administrator, everyone, and owner.

I know from experience that the bookmarks are contained in a folder called "Favorites". I can copy the favorites folder to my thumb drive folder F:\FirefoxPortable\data\profile but it still soes not show up in the Bookmark.

I cant get my portable firefox to connect to the net through my school computers. Why not? I tried xfire portable to see if it would connect and it didnt. Whats wrong?

First off I'd like to say that I'm a huge fan of what you're doing here. Crappy Windows installers have irritated me for years, and I find the fairly recent surge of self-contained and completely portable applications to be extraordinarily refreshing. Taking Firefox with me has been a real dream -- I'm one of those antsy types who doesn't trust online bookmarking sites and as a result have spent a pretty good deal of time trying to maintain some level of Firefox synchronization between the computers I use. So for me, this rocks.

However, I think I need some help picking out a "portable application-friendly" USB stick. I currently rock the adorable, ultra-tiny Kingmax 1GB Flash Drive. I don't think it ever claimed to be the fastest USB stick on the market, but it has other redeeming qualities (photo courtesy of Truex, SA forums). Anyway, I've been having a terrible time getting Firefox Portable to run well on this thing. It's really jerky, to the point that it's borderline unusable for me. I have history disabled, I uninstalled all my extensions, and finally backed-up and formatted the drive to try it again with an unmodified straight-out-the-box install of FFP. Same jerky hard-to-navigate crap everytime. My customized copy of FFP runs absolutely flawlessly from the local hard drive, but I would really like to be able to run it directly from my USB stick. I like taking it to work to use on the "public" computers here in the office that several employees have access to, but I'm pretty sure that if I had to copy FFP from the stick to the local disk everyday and back at the end, I'd wind up going off and leaving private data at one point or another.

When using Firefox 2.0 RC1 as a Live - Firefox (I used a write protected usb-stick) an error-message "Drive is not writeable" occoured.

I used the procedure as describe on portableapps.com (I used the firefoxportable.ini - file).

After quitting the error-message, the Firefox really worked "live".

But, is that error-message ok ? Or did I something wrong when I have created my "Firefox Live" ?