Firefox Portable

I have regular Firefox 3.6 running fine, but would like to launch Firefox Portable running as a second copy (ie. multiple instance) of Firefox. This allows me to keep separate bookmarks and histories.

I've checked other threads about "Question: run two firefox-portables simultaneously?", and other issues regarding running "Another instance", but I still get an error message that "another instance of firefox is already running".

Microsoft Update just installed KB980182, a security update for IE. Upon reboot, my Portable Firefox could no longer connect to anything on the Internet. ("Firefox can't establish a connection to the server...") No Firefox settings were changed. Other browsers I have installed locally (IE, Opera) work fine.

Anyone else having this problem?

I updated to the new version, and now the damned thing won't even run.
It's either the firefox update itself, or the flash player update that I got before I restarted firefox (did not come back up). Both were gotten from legitimate sources.

Good afternoon,
I am using Firefox 3.6 Portable. It appears that it is not honoring my Internet Zone settings in the Restricted Sites zone. My understanding is that Firefox 3.0 and above leverage the OS settings.

Can someone shed some light into this matter? Is the portable version different in some way with respect to this issue?

Thank you,
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Just wondering if it is possible to copy my Firefox Portable settings for add-ons search plugins and such to my desktop version of Firefox. this way they would both look the same. Hard to remember what add ons I have installed into the Portable vs the Hard drive versions. Looks to me like if i copt the following from Portable FF to FF I should be ok?

PreserveDirectory1=App\Firefox\plugins
PreserveDirectory2=App\Firefox\searchplugins
PreserveDirectory3=App\Firefox\components

I have downloaded portable FF and have installed the Tor Button.

I now need to connect to the Tor network.

Can someone tell me what plugin I need, or any other method.

Is Tor, the best choice?

Thanks

I've been using (and updating) flash player successfully for a while now by copying just the NPSWF32.dll file to my FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins directory.

From what I've read on forums, though, you're also supposed to copy the flashplayer.xpt file. But mine works fine without it. So what does the .xpt file do exactly? Just curious. Thanks.

Edit: Could it be that the .xpt file is necessary, but FFP is reading it from the Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash directory (while reading the updated .dll from the portable directory)?

My concern is I want to minimize read-writes to the EeePC 900 netbook SSD.

I understand any browser caches a lot. I don't have Bookmarks caching webpages or favicons, however, there are so many things a broswer will cache.

My question is: does Portable Apps Firefox cache to the SD card?

I have my Portable Apps on a SD card.

If you're going to buy a USB 2010, that works well with Firefox, which one would you buy?

Everytime I try to use my firefox portable off my 2 gb usb drive I get handle invalid. How do I fix this? No I do not have adminstrative rights on the computer I'm using.