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Firefox Portable

not changing path for helper apps

Submitted by dimiz on April 29, 2010 - 2:59pm

I am trying to make portable firefox open pdf files with pdfXchange viewer. I have tried to follow the instructions on the site, added pdfXchange as an app for pdfs, and it worked. Then to test it, I moved the whole directory structure to another directory (relative path between firefox and pdfXchange remained the same) and it stopped working. Is there any way to make it work with relative paths?

Google Gears Portable approved for Public status on addons.mozilla.org

Submitted by tvierling on April 22, 2010 - 8:41pm

I've received notification that my re-zipping of the Gears for Win32 binaries has been moved from Experimental to Public status. Read on for more details on how it works, or if you're in a hurry you can get it here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13492

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Slow Start From Non-Portable Drive

Submitted by Firefairy on April 20, 2010 - 4:11pm

I am currently testing applications before transferring them to my flash drive. Even after the initial "install" load, Firefox Portable takes several minutes to load.

The test directory housing all the files I intend to transfer to my flash drive is on my Desktop. I am running Vista, with privileges. My installed version of FF loads lightning-fast, even with addons and history and such. I did all the performance improving tips listed on the FFP page, which sped it up from about 5 minutes to 2-3 minutes to load. Once FFP loads, it runs fine.

What am I missing?

Firefox 3.6.3 Portable and Hiren's Mini Windows XP

Submitted by JohSeg on April 18, 2010 - 9:10am

If I boot with Mini Windows XP on Hiren's BootCD 10.1 I can't download files. Browsing is no problems. In the Downloads window (Ctrl+J) I get an Canceled-message. The same thing if I try to save an picture. But if I use an old version of Firefox (1.something) that already is installed on the HDD (of course still using Hiren's Mini Windows XP) everything works great. How come?

I've to boot with Hiren's Mini Windows XP because of HDD boot failure.

Sorry for my bad English Smile

FireFox Portable isn't (portable)

Submitted by 2bnewb on April 17, 2010 - 9:31am

FFP 3.6 on XP home.

I downloaded it and installed a bunch of extensions, moved my toolbars around, edited my menus, made some bookmarks, things were going good.

Then I moved it to my usb stick. Not even on a different system, just moved it to the stick. All my book marks are gone. A couple toolbars I created and one from an extension have vanished, my toolbars are all hosed up with Icons in places they are not supposed to be and half the icons I placed on them are missing. My menus are back to the default or close to it.

Minefield Portable install error

Submitted by kluii on April 17, 2010 - 5:02am

Regarding the downloader/installer for the 3.7 alpha 4, it is getting a 404 when trying to download the package.

This seems like a useful installer and I would like to request the following, if it is a valid proposition. Can you please tell us which type of package the installer requires and then allow us to manually download the version of our choice for the installer to then create a portable version? Is this feasible or do you do your own fine tuning for each version?

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Minefield, Portable Edition | PortableApps.com Installer
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