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Files to delete

Submitted by ElSid on December 15, 2009 - 6:48pm

Where is this in the portable version? I am trying to erase the cache to reduce space on my thumb drive.
"Mozilla Firefox stores the saved files to the folder “Cache”, which you can find under the profile folder (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\\). You can safely erase that folder when Firefox is not running."

Does deleting the places.sqlite and cookies.sqlite do anything in portable FF? This is also recommended to the standard install. Doesn/t places.sqlite hold your profile?

Changing profile location for ff portable

Submitted by escalf on December 13, 2009 - 9:46pm

Hello,
I'm in a unique position, it seems.
My company has restrictions on the locally installed FF, therefore many of us run FF portable. Our network admin will not allow us to run programs from network shares (going so far as to delete *.exe from our network shares, regularly), and USB drive use is restricted, so we install to our desktops. Network admin is requesting that we descrease the size of our roaming profiles as well.

Solved: Make this work on Windows 7 64bit!!!

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Submitted by Acecool on December 12, 2009 - 9:45am

Ok, when you run it the first time it saves your settings.

But since Windows 7 sees the exe as an installer (NSIS) it will create a new profile for this application.

And, when you close it, and reopen it - it will link to the new profile..

Right click on EXE for both Thunderbird and Firefox portable.

Goto troubleshoot compatability, and choose Windows XP SP3 - then save the settings for the exe forever.

Create a shortcut and put it on your desktop.

Both programs now load your portable profile!

Where is latest version of Flash?

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Submitted by truthseeker on December 11, 2009 - 3:49pm

When I follow and download flash from portableapps website, it only has a link to an OLD flash for firefox.

Where can I download the LATEST version Flash for portableapps?

This link only has a link to an OLD flash:

https://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#plugins

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer...

Installing Plugins (Flash, Shockwave, etc.)

Submitted by wvJotyV8O8N43X8DMXpN on December 9, 2009 - 4:51pm

Can someone update the information in above mentioned section?

Since ages you can't choose in the Shockwave installer which browser you want to install it in, because it bluntly installs itself within Windows.

Installing Flash Player via the XPI doesn't seem to work anymore either. It used to before but now it's complaining about a missing install script or something like that (error 204).
It might be something missing in a previous install, I don't know for sure at the moment.

bookmarks location

Submitted by yodar on December 5, 2009 - 6:26pm

my FF is installed at G:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable. i would like to back up my bookmarks, but i can't find the file. i did find G:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Data\profile\bookmarkbackups\bookmarks-2009-12-05.json but i guess this is a backup not the real bookmark file.

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