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Syncing bookmarks pFF/FF

Submitted by Vaughn on January 11, 2006 - 3:41pm

Is there a way to synchronize changes to my bookmarks between the FF on my PC hard drive and the pFF on my USB drive? The initial import to pFF was fine but now that I have made changes in one or the other, I want to get them to be all the same. It has always been a hassle between my work FF bookmarks being different from my home FF bookmarks, so if there was a sync function in pFF, it would allow me to keep all three bookmark files the same.
Vaughn

PFF on 95

Submitted by justin on January 10, 2006 - 7:20pm

PFF does work on Windows 95 without any modifications right? Just wanted to know in case I go to a place with (gasp!) Windows 95 on the machines.

Eliminating pluginreg.dat & Mozilla folder on local machine

Submitted by doogie on January 10, 2006 - 1:27pm

Hi, I just started using PFF and it's great. Hopefully someone can help me

I wish to avoid the known issue mentioned in the README file, which states:
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LOCAL FILES CREATED - A directory (%userprofile%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox) is created on the local machine (if Firefox is not installed locally) and a pluginreg.dat file is created within it. This is a limitation of Firefox itself. If you set the UserProfile directory within the INI file, this will not happen.
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Which INI file are we talking about here? I assumed the PortableFirefox.ini file is being referenced, and I changed this line from

Installing extension in HD first then move whole portable ff to flash drive

Submitted by OP4 Latino on January 10, 2006 - 1:04am

Hi, I got a new flash drive and I want to install portable ff and this is what I thought to do

1. Download the zip from this site
2. Unzip it somewhere in HDD (C:)
3. Install extensions because HDD access is faster than Flash drive
4. Move the whole DIR to the flash drive

Can I do that? would it corrupt something?

Thanks

PFF issues on XP

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 9, 2006 - 5:17pm

I normally use PFF on a Win2000 machine at work (that does not have regular Firefox installed). It works fine. When I try to use PFF with my thumb drive on any XP machine (that has Firefox on them), it does not start up. When I installed I took the default directory structure and haven't renamed anything. Any suggestions? TIA

Shockwave plug-in blues

Submitted by roryks on January 7, 2006 - 9:14am

Off the bat, I assure you that I have followed the instructions carefully on installing the shockwave plugin...but still I am having no joy. At no point does it give me the option of choosing the browser. Now, shockwave is installed on my laptop but it is not recognized by firefox - only IE. I am running Windows XP.

Any suggestions?

pFF won't load

Submitted by daenyth on January 6, 2006 - 3:41pm

i've had this before, i run the launcher program, and firefox won't load. or, more accurately, when i check the task manager the process is running, but without a window. last time i had no clue why and eventually had to reinstall it to get it working again. this time it happened right after firefox crashed, so i think thats why it happened. im trying a few differant things right now, but does anyone know a way to fix this?

RSS Bookmarks broken with pff

Submitted by Seven Alive on January 6, 2006 - 3:19pm

I noticed that Portable Firefox breaks the Live bookmarks. Also there is another problem. I have gmail and i have the google personal page set 2 my homepage
when i startup Firefox it says sign in button, so i click it and my page shows (didn't prompt for username or password) or if i press homepage again my homepage displays properly. It only happens on pFf startup. If i press homepage toolbar button, my google personal page shows up (it does not say sign it).

It is probably a Ff issue but i only use PFf.

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