Firefox Portable

I'd love to move to portable Firefox beta 2.0, but I don't want to lose all my settings from 1.5: can I safely upgrade the to 2.0, even if it is a major release, using the "Upgrading Firefox Portable" hints?

Thanks!

The Firefox icon at top left corner was easily replacable in previous "beta" version of PFF browser. However, because of hierarchical differences in folder-structure of the current PFF (1.5.0.6), I could not do this easily. How can I replace Firefox icon with mine in Firefox Portable 1.5.0.6? Thanks.

Firefox has a feature to add extensions that are defined in the Windows registry. Well, this is something that I definitely DO NOT want to happen when using portable firefox. It would be a nice feature to have a warning that registry extensions are available, and prompt the user to allow them to occur.

For the short term, I hacked the nsExtensionManager.js by commenting out the lines in the try block, and leaving the catch block alone in the WinRegInstallLocation function. Maybe this info can help somebody else too.

Hello,

I want to open Files like Doc or avi directly with portable open office or portablevlc, without searching the application or integrating launchy. Is this possible?

Thanks,
Thomas

Dear John T. Haller,

(I tried to PM this but i couldn't find your e-mailaddress..) I have been using Portable Firefox for a long time now (about 6 months) and LOVE that it works on USB-sticks and CD-ROM's. Actually the way i found it was that i was searching for a Firefox-browser for my Pocket PC, and it isn't THAT portable but still portable enough.

I use Firefox 1.5.0.6 with it and copy the \Data-directory every time i want to use a new profile for my PortableFirex-browser. Until recently this was adequate since all extensions and user data get copied with it, but then i discovered the Firefox Extension Backup Extension(FEBE) and thought that was a great way to manage my profiles. What i discovered was that FEBE looks at the profiles of the app\Firefox-browser and so doesn't allow you to do a re-install to the \PortableFirefox-browser. This was allright though, since i could still copy and zip the \Data-directory and get the same result.

I've posted a solution if you want to start Firefox Portable with within the Thunderbird Portable. So when you use Thunderbird Portable and right click on a link you can choose Firefox Portable. And when you from within Firefox Portable right click on a mailto link can choose Thunderbird Portable.

You can read how to do it at:
http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/08/30/using_launchyxml_to_start_firefox_portab...

Hi Guys,

I like to know how Firefox portable is different from a firefox that built and installed in a Flash

I built firefox(1.5.0.1) for ppc-linux and installed in my compact flash drive. Now I mount that flash on another machine as readonly media and execute.

I do have problem like 3 instances of forefox-bins are created and it hangs forever.

.mozilla folder is created in .root and have no issue with that.

How does the portable firefox different. do you need to do anything extra to make it work??

Regards,
Ravi

I just moved my Firefox (everything) from my USB drive to the hard drive, and now the Adblock Plus Preferences box appears, at first when I would press a button on the keyboard, and now when I change the site (could be triggered by master password prompt). The only change I made was setting the fixes so that they would adjust for drive letter and the directories so that they'd be accurate. I also got a few unresponsive script notices (quite odd), and I told it to continue on all of them. I've gotten those notices before, but only when a) an autoupdate was interrupted or otherwise messed up or b) when I use a USB1.1 port and have to adjust for drive letter changes with a lot of extension changes (e.g. pending installations).

Hi there,
I just trief the portable FF and I think it's great! Nice work.

I have a question though, which seems not to be answered in the FAQs. Does portable FF leave any traces on the PC it's used? If yes, what kind of?

Thanks and keep up the good work!

John,

If I have portable thunderbird running, and try to start portable firefox, I get the error that firefox is already running. If I have portable firefox running, and try to start portable thunderbird, I get the converse error about thunderbird.

I think it might be because two different instances of Gecko are running, and the first one locked the profile, while the latter is respawning trying to access it resulting in the concurrency error.

I have some new stuff to show you.

Steve