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Profile Manager for FFP

Submitted by Zepholos on May 22, 2009 - 5:41am

Hi. I've read through several posts about FFP and other portable apps like Thunderbird and is it correct that there is no Profile Manager for FFP?

I'm trying to set up 2 different profiles on my thumb drive for me and my son. I've tried to run FirefoxPortable.exe -ProfileManager through the command line and it doesn't work. I read a thread that if you use the -ProfileManager command line with FirefoxPortable.exe that it passes that command line to the Firefox.exe application in the App\Firefox\ folder, but that's not true, because it didn't work.

Changing FFP cache location

Submitted by Atos26 on May 20, 2009 - 12:02pm

Is there a way to tell FFP to use computer's default Temp folder for caching instead of Profile/Cache directory? When I use the browser from my flash drive, multiple writes to it are not very healthy for the flash memory and also considerably slower.
For example, Opera saves those files to C:/Documents and Settings/"user account"/Local Settings/Temp and later deletes them all when closed. Thanks.

Taking out Crash Reporter might save some space

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Submitted by NathanJ79 on May 19, 2009 - 7:07pm

If y'all's agreement with Mozilla allows it, anyway.

Portable Firefox just crashed on me, and when I tried to submit the crash report, it just said "There was an error submitting your crash report." Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure that it always does that. Firefox has crashed on me three, MAYBE four times since I've used it (to where the crash reporter comes up) and I don't remember it ever successfully submitting its crash report.

Firefox taking 100% of CPU time

Submitted by Frank1 on May 19, 2009 - 1:35am

I have just upgraded to V3.0.10 from V3.0.4 on Windows XP Pro SP3.
I don't notice any difference between the versions so far. The reason I upgraded was due to this CPU hogging by Firefox. This happens only on certain websites. Here is an example of a website that does this:
http://www.returnilvirtualsystem.com/returnil-virtual-system-personal

Firefox recognizes and "enables," but doesn't use, local Java

Submitted by seodoa on May 18, 2009 - 7:20pm

This issue has been posted about a few times before, and, if my search-fu is to be trusted, has never been resolved, or even replied to. Here's hoping for a break from tradition. Wink

First, I want to state clearly, and for the record, that this is not a request for portable Java. I don't need portable Java and I don't care about portable Java.

No password remember option for Yahoo and Hotmail sites

Submitted by Atos26 on May 16, 2009 - 11:20am

On every page I try to log in FFP 3.0.10 gives me the option to remember the entered user name and password. But when I'm logging into Yahoo and Hotmail sites, the above option is not available. Why is it so? I understand why this function is switched off for banks' pages and some financial institutions (like PayPal). But why for My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail or Hotmail and MSN? I had no such problem with GMail site. Could someone explain, please?

Picture as my homepage

Submitted by Atos26 on May 15, 2009 - 9:40pm

Hello,

How can I use a picture as my homepage in FFP? I have created a small html file which displays my picture as homepage. The problem is that it only works with set path. If my pen drive is allocated different drive letter, FFP can't find the photo (placed with mypage.html file in profile folder). I have already tried several suggestions from other forums but none of them worked. Thanks.

Local Add-ons

Submitted by kjkjava on May 15, 2009 - 3:19pm

I just recently started to use Firefox Portable and I'm not sure if this is normal behavior or not (or if there is a way to change the behavior). Depending on the computer I am on, different add-ons will show up. For example, the computer I am on now has AVG anti-virus on it, and so I get a lovely new toolbar on my browser. This computer does not have a local copy of Firefox. Is there a way to use only add-ons that are stored on my flash drive?

Thanks,
Kyle

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