Firefox Portable

After removing malware ("Internet Antivirus Pro") from a friend's computer (XP SP3), the winsock catalog reported errors, which I understand is not uncommon. I've run half a dozen repair utilities, followed the manual instructions from Microsoft and third-party sites, and spent about six hours researching.

IE7, IE8, and FF3 are all unable to access HTTP (although HTTPS and FTP work), but Firefox Mobile runs just fine.

Does this indicate any kind of next step to anyone? What about Mobile bypasses the error?

Thanks,
-Magellan

I backed up my Firefox portable 2.0 folder to firefox.rar ( the archive is not broken )

I formatted my OS, installed XP again, extracted files & launched firefox. But none of my addons work suddenly. They all look like on this image: Yet they should be all green & working, cuz after I zipped it up I extracted & made sure everything was working.

http://www.imgserve.net/images/2k6duokxbjavt4hn3k2r.jpg

I cant uninstall, change options, disable enable any addon, Firefox is freezing up if you try to change any addon options.

Hi.

I have this flash animation running on my Firefox Portable. I want to save the swf file to my PC, but the website is down (have been down for hours now). The flash animation is still running in a tab.

I checked about:cache. The swf file is in the Memory cache device (Offline cache device is empty).

My question is, is there any way I can retrieve and save the swf from the memory cache?

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Whenever I use ctrl-c to copy a url or other text (even copied text from another application), and then use ctrl-v to paste it into firefox portable, the text is doubled = inserted twice. When I try pasting into other applications, it only pastes it once. Any suggestions?

The blog of the greatest IT magazine in Brazil just released an article on Firefox 3.1 beta 3 Portable.

http://info.abril.com.br/blog/downloaddahora/20090324_listar.shtml?156016

This is not the first time INFO released an article referring to PortableApps.com.

Last year there was a whole page featuring the entire PortableApps Suite.

I was wondering if the Firefox Portable launcher could be configured to create a new window when the launcher is clicked and the app is already running, just like how it's done when it's installed. Currently it gives the "Firefox is open and not responding close the process" error, even with "AllowMultipleInstances" set to true.

Any ideas?

Phenomenal app by the way. Thanks for all the hard work!

I'm not sure what the problem is, but whenever the drive letter changes an extension (Menu Editor) no longer works, it says it is not installed. I must go to the Firefox extensions page and reinstall it. After a restart all my settings for that extension are restored. I was just wondering if anybody has experienced any problems like this or if anybody knows a fix.

I love having portable firefox, but settings like "store history" and changes to the chrome (i.e. "do not show statusbar" and "do not show home button") are either not saved to my portable device or are ignored. Also, firefox thinks i have just installed addons whenever i open it on a new computer. That is not a big deal but it may help pointout the underlying problem here.

If you need more information about these issues I am more than happy to test things out or give greater detail.

So, how can i make firefox remember my changes?

Thanks
-Kyle

Hi forum,

i created a small presentation which is handouted on cd. it shows a website with an embeeded WMP (firefox plugin) and runs from cd with the portable version of ff.

my problem: when i insert the cd to a pc where ff is already installed, my portable version seems to be looking for add-on/extensions and displays a popup after starting that says "add-ons where successfully installed" or anything like that.

is there any chance of disabling this dialog? or prevent ff from searching for extensions maybe via command line option or in the config?

Hi

The two parameters AdditionalParameters and LocalHomepage are mixed up, for example with those settings:

AdditionalParameters = install-global-extension
LocalHomepage = hello.html

FirefoxPortable is trying to load the page http://www.install-global-extension.com