Firefox Portable

I have searched before doing this post, but if there is a link to my answer then I will be glad to know of it

I have just purchased a new laptop/new book.... HP dm1z and am setting it up. Someone has advised that it is better to install portable app as opposed to full applications as they can be removed better/easier and new versions installed when they come out without 'messing up' the computer as much as it does when installing and then updating with the full application software.
So can someone please advise me of the pros and cons of installing portable apps vs full app please.

Some of my school's computers recently "upgraded" to Server 2003. Firefox Portable 3.6 won't run on these machines. I watched the start up in the task manager, and both firefoxportable.exe and firefox.exe start and then close. The splash comes up, the the application just closes.

Is this something to do with Server 2003? Or did my school configure something so that certain apps won't run? The school district is full of a bunch of paranoid control-freaks, and they may have found a new way of restricting our accounts.

Seeking a way to run firefox but each one with a lot of its session to a website.

example:
if connect to site XXXX and insert login: prova and password: prova
I enter the site xxx with prova account
if open new firefox and connect to site xxxx the website
i am already being linked to account as if he saw evidence cookies

I want to keep open many firefox each one that connects to the website xxxx with different accounts xxx simultaneously.

thanks

I just installed Firefox 4 RC 1 Portable, but Java is no longer available. It's installed locally on my machine, and java applets run fine in Google Chrome Portable and Firefox portable 3.6.15. On the about:plugins page, the Java plugin is no longer listed, while it shows this for 3.6.15:

Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U19

File: npjp2.dll
Version: 6.0.190.4
Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_19 for Mozilla browsers

Any idea?

Hello,

When I go into about:config to make mplayer the app for the
mms protocol Firefox still tells me the mms protocol is still
not configured.

about:config reads...

network.protocol-handler.app.mms;/usr/bin/gnome-mplayer

I wonder why this isn't working ?

thx.

patrick013

Portable Firebox version: 3.6.15

Hi,

Since using firefox on my USB card, I have not been able to add/modify any of my bookmarks, since importing them from my workstation version of FF.
Tried the "bookmark this page", dragging the page upto the bookmark section or Bookmark toolbar.

It will let me create a folder in the toolbar, and also if I drag a page to the HOME icon I can change the starting page to that.

But just unable to add new bookmarks [it will let me remove the ones I already have AND let me re add the same link, but not anything new]

I wonder if someone can just clarify this for me, regarding the version numbering scheme they use with Firefox.

3.6.15 is higher than 3.6.6?

I'm asking because I would den to assume zeroes after the last 6, so version 60, and if it was just six it should be 06, ie 3.6.06

But perhaps that is just me?

Hi,

I tried to do the standard process, i.e. np32dsw.dll to the plugins folder but no luck there is a fixed image displayed on the adobe shockwave test page.

Any one could make it ?

I just started using Firefox 4 Portable for testing, and I notice that the icons for it combine on the taskbar, which doesn't happen with the Fx3 icons. Why? what change in PAF/Fx causes this? any "fix"? (It's going to be a real pain to have to open the preview every time to select the instance I want instead of just clicking on it in the taskbar.)

Thanks.

Hi,

I just read a post asking about updating and saw there is and automatic updater included with the latest release. Before I get the new version, is there an option to turn this off, just not down load, or uninstall?

I don't want ANYTHING updating or calling home without permission. My normal internet connection is limited. I only update applications at libraries.

Thanks,
Bob