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Tips - How to pin FirefoxPortable in windows 7

Submitted by MasterYoda on December 21, 2011 - 5:43pm

=== update ===
this trix has stopped working with v10 for some reason.
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People have had problem to pin firefox portable in windows 7 so the right firefox profile starts and, at the same time, only get one single icon in the taskbar.

The problem have been:
1 - If you start firefoxportable.exe and then try to pin it, next time you start it you notice a new profile is started locally on the computer and not the profile you have used in firefoxportable. This is because firefox.exe is pinned.

Separate cookies on Mozilla Firefox (?)

Submitted by wroclawianin on December 20, 2011 - 3:56am

Hello, here's my problem:

Untill not I was using Mozilla Firefox as my webbrowser. Now as I'm playing some browser game that requires me to delete cookies like 2-3 times a day it started to get annoying. My question is: can I have installed both: Mozilla Firefox and Firefox Portable on the same PC, that would have separate cookies? So when I play my game on portable and then I delete the cookies, my cookies from the regular Mozilla Firefox won't be deleted?

I know I could use another browser for my game, like opera or something but I simply don't want to.

Install Flash in FF Portable 8.0.1

Submitted by BenB on December 7, 2011 - 8:09pm

I’d like to install Flash player in Firefox Portable 8.0.1. I read on this forum that an easy workaround is to copy the files from my local machine and paste them in the portable Firefox plugin folder under data. My home computer does have Flash and it works well. I looked for the files on my computer in system32\macromed\flash but didn’t find the files. My local machine runs Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit edition. Can you tell me where the Flash files are? Thanks.

portable firefox 8.0.1 windows 7 jump list(task) bugs. thanks

Submitted by johnze on December 7, 2011 - 3:05am

I used windows 7 sp1 64bit. i used firefox portable 8.0.1. right click portable firefox, i see the jump list (task), but that broken icons. and i click the task, that show me an 'error'. i test Google Chrome Portable the jumplist(task) it works.

and installation firefox 8.0.1 also jumplist(task) also works. so, i think that a bugs. please test and fix. thanks.

also, i used firefox plugin call downthemall. that a download manager, when start download has a 'owner windows pop up'.

JAVA applets are not displaying

Submitted by tx00824 on December 4, 2011 - 10:07am

Hi all I have a weird problem. I used portable firefox since v3.0.19 on the same machine at work and before version v3.6.24 I have used many other versions and all of them worked flawlessly (currently I am on v3.6.23 and there is no problems at all).

Recently I've tried to use v3.6.24 and v8.0.1 (while ago I also tried v7) and none of them works with JAVA applets. When I try the same website which works on the older browsers, this new ones just display the source code of the html site containing the applet (just a plain text like in a notepad).

Old Bug Lives Again - extensions show up as being not compatible

Submitted by Kernel on November 30, 2011 - 11:40pm

This is an old bug, if I remember correctly. Over half of my extensions in FFP 8.0.1 show up as being incompatible with Firefox 8.0.1 until I manually update all the extensions.

This occurred in 3.x, got fixed, and now I'm seeing it again here.

Edit:

Here is the last time this bug was around:

https://portableapps.com/node/27310

It was acknowledged to be a bug, and was *fixed*. Somewhere along the way, the bug came back.

Problem Opening Pages In New Tab With RunLocally=true

Submitted by chinnen on November 30, 2011 - 1:09pm

I am running Firefox Portable with RunLocally=true because I have Firefox Portable set up on a file server, and multiple people will be accessing it from different workstations. I have it set to true to it will copy it locally to their workstation so changes will not be made to Firefox Portable on the file server.

I am having a problem opening links in new tab from a new process. I have -new-tab set on the AdditionalParmaters line to open new links in a new tab.

Here are the steps I am doing to try and get this to work.

1. Run firefoxportable.exe http://www.yahoo.com

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