Firefox Portable

I've only ever used Firefox Portable on admin accounts, but last week I tried it in a controlled environment, and the results were disappointing.

I was running Portable Firefox 3.6 (official build) on a flash drive on a laptop running Vista Home Premium SP2 through the computer's Guest account. Firefox was installed, and connects to the Net without a proxy, but is loaded down with tons of badware, strange toolbars and the like. Portable Firefox wouldn't connect to anything. Google, the start page (start.portableapps.com) or a couple other sites.

I can't get to gmail, when i type in gmail.com all it does is sit there and say loading continually, it never actually makes it to the log in screen. Someone please help, gmail is where i have all my accounts. I can imagine a well known web browser like firefox not working with one of the biggest email carriers.

I have my PortableApps (including Firefox) installed in my Dropbox (which makes it the world's first genuine cloud-based OS ). How come the computers that are synced with my Dropbox don't have the same Firefox configuration? They should, right? Say I install some Firefox add-on on one computer, I configure the add-on, and move to a different computer and start FireFox portable there. Then surprise! I have to configure the add-on on that computer as well! Why is that?

Everytime I fire up FFP from my USB drive, it creates a randomly named directory in C:\TEMP called nsa184.tmp. The format is actually NS***.tmp.
It contains the following files:
FindProcDLL.dll
newadvsplash.dll
registry.dll
splash.jpg
system.dll

They don't get deleted upon closure. Why are these here, and how can I make sure they go away after FFP closes?

hey all,

I'm having an issue where evertime I launch firefox after upgrading to 3.5.7, the same 3 tabs pop up ("Welcome to Firefox", "Mozilla Firefox Start Page" and "DownloadHelper" which I added more than a year ago) even though I specify to save tabs after closing.

I am able to save bookmarks and I've tried deleting the "localstore.rdf" file but that didn't help at all.

No settings are saved any longer than the current session that I am using.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

Downloaded the latest version, purchased a new flash drive specifically for this purpose.

SO, how do I get this app to load in a shorter time than 3-5 minutes. (New Dell Quad Core, 4gb memory, Win7)

I have to simply walk away for a few minutes and then come back to the machine in order to use this app.

Read the FAQs and did a search but did not find any specific answers as to why and how.

Hi, how can i change language in Firefox 3.6 portable?

Hi there,

i have a problem with the Windows 7 taskbar and Mozilla Firefox Portable. After i've tried the prism addon my FirefoxPortable got a new ugly icon. It's really annoying to have new cool themes in Firefox 3.6 but an ugly icon. Is it possible to replace?

What i've tried so far:
- Put an icon set to App\Firefox\chrome\icons\default folder
- Put an icon set toData\profile\chrome\icons\default folder
- Reinstalling firefox
- Clear icon cache (%userprofile%\AppData\Local\IconCache.db)

Do you have any ideas how I can fix the icon?

The profile manager you can use to manage multiple profiles in Firefox is somehow disabled in Portable Firefox, reportedly because it can't be made portable.

So how hard would it be to rig up something that does the same thing?

I have installed Firefox portable in my dropbox folder. It works fine on my main computer but on PC2, FF i completely clean no bookmarks, addons seem to be installed. What can be wrong?