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Enterprise policies

Submitted by damasko on April 2, 2021 - 3:40am

Hello, I used to have FF portable on my usb drive (bitlocker enabled) running on the Win10pro company laptop (Lenovo T14).
Today I notice that some settings are working no more, disappeared or greyed out and displaying "managed by your organization". For example, I lost the Mozilla account login for the sync.
The policy values are the following.
I supposed that being a portable app, the resident OS would not touch it, is there a way to avoid such interference by the company?

Can not open multiple Firefox Portable browsers at the same time

Submitted by rick400tec on March 15, 2021 - 12:23pm

error says already running.
installed firefox portable in separate folders so i can hopefully log into websites like microsoft and google with different accounts in different browsers at the same time accessing all google apps under that one email address. I use sperate browsers for credentials and project management with saved tabs where i left off.
I have changed ini allow multiple instances to 'true'
I have renamed firefox portable.exe (successfully) and sub folders(32/64) firefox.exe (unsuccessfully) programs to unique names

Updating FirefoxPortable.exe

Submitted by DrStrange on March 12, 2021 - 8:58am

Hi,
I use a program called SUMo from kcsoftwares.com to keep my programs up to date. I notice with Firefox Portable, SUMo checks what is the current version of FirefoxPortable.exe that is in the FireFoxPortable folder. However, if you use the Help>About menu from within Firefox Portable to update, FireFox Portable does update itself ok but does not update FirefoxPortable.exe, meaning that SUMo still thinks that Firefox needs updated.

Launching a 2nd Firefoxportable instance launches the 1st instance

Submitted by dwaynek on March 11, 2021 - 1:14am

i have many different firefoxportable in different folders. but recently this keeps happening whereby launching a 2nd firefoxportable will launch the 1st instance and thus a blank new window of the 1st instance instead of the 2nd instance.

Closing the 1st instance will resolve this but this shouldn't be happening. why is the 1st instance interfering with the launch of the 2nd instance?

these are the settings in all of my firefoxportable dirs:

Firefox Saving Settings & Add-Ons to Windows

Submitted by edlight on March 4, 2021 - 11:26pm

When I copied FF 85.0.2 to another computer, it lost its settings AND its add-ons. I had to do them all over again.

Assuming it was keeping them in Windows 7, I searched C: for Firefox. I got these on the source computer but they could be from past Portable Firefoxes:

C:\Program Data\Mozilla
C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Mozilla
C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla

The target computer isn't available right now.

Of course everything is supposed to stay in the Portable Firefox folder, so it's pretty serious.

Thanks.

Firefox Portable completely unusable. Keeps freezing entire computer.

Submitted by gaveitatry on February 20, 2021 - 11:06pm

This is a brand new laptop with great specs. The vast majority of my programs are on my older laptop, and I only use this new laptop for the bare essentials. So no chances of viruses, etc. I only have simple programs like Notepad++. So it seems too often, most of the time, just opening a new tab in Firefox Portable will cause the browser to not respond. And then normally one could move the mouse cursor around and go to another window or go to Task Manager and force quit the Firefox Portable exe.

Firefox Portable "set as desktop background" location image issue

Submitted by frankell on February 13, 2021 - 3:12pm

[Issue] Using the "set as desktop background" feature I noticed that the "Desktop Background.bmp" is stored in the AppData \Mozilla\Firefox\ folder actually the FirefoxPortable new image is also overwriting the Firefox resident setting.
There is any workaround to avoid this issue ?

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