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Reconfigure Firefox Portable to run on Windows Mobile/Pocket PC?

Submitted by tplane37 on February 27, 2009 - 2:39pm

I am a Windows Mobile Developer. I am currently Beta Testing Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 21159 on my XV6800 (aka "Titan/Mongul"). It runs QVGA based programs, as well as VGA based. I have installed Fennec (Which was developed/released for the Touch Pro), and it is not far enough along yet to run on my device. I would like to be able to run Firefox Portable Edition from my SD Card since so much of the Windows Mobile Platform depends on the Internet Explorer being installed on the device. I honestly do not care much for Opera.

fx portable/default browser/default profile

Submitted by luste on February 26, 2009 - 6:08pm

on my home pc I set fx portable as a defaul browser. If fx is turned on, everything is OK, links from other apps work fine.

The problem begins when fx is turned off. If I click a link in external program then, firefox turns on, but without my profile. A new raw profile is created in c:/documents and settings/...

Turning on fx by clicking firefoxportable.exe restores my original profile.

What can I do to fix it?

My Portable Firefox runs very badly - why?

Submitted by xelaw on February 24, 2009 - 2:15am

I used to have Portable Firefox 2.0 on my old flash drive, and it worked quite well.

A couple of months ago, I got a new flash drive (USB 2), and I installed PortableFirefox 3 on it, and went on a trip. When I tried using my the PortableFirefox (all my other software on the flash drive worked OK), it was so so slow as to be useless. I attributed it to the fact the maybe the USB port on the PC I was working with was slow, and I used the Firefox installed on the PC instead. That PC was a new Dell model, and now I'm not sure it was a USB port problem.

Settings Overwrite

Submitted by catchyanow on February 23, 2009 - 4:32pm

HELP!
I am using FFX portable on my PC and every time it starts now all the settings for:
Google Toolbar
Flashblock
Ad Block Plus
Flagfox

are all reset or they act like I just installed them! This is really starting to get annoying! Please help me..............

Thanks,
catchyanow

How do you direct the "View Source" in Firefox Portable to open Notepad ++ Portable?

Submitted by blastprocessing0 on February 18, 2009 - 8:52pm

How do you direct the "View Source" in Firefox Portable to open Notepad ++ Portable? I know I can specify an absolute path (e.g. "E:\PortableApps\Notepad++Portable\Notepad++Portable.exe") for my view_source.editor.path in the Firefox about:config BUT I cannot always guarantee that my flash drive will be the "E" drive. Is there another way to write this path so that no matter what drive letter my flash drive gets mounted to it will always work?

After install Firefox 3.0.6 Add-on's problem

Submitted by inscreve on February 18, 2009 - 3:21am

Since i update from Firefox 3.0.5 to Firefox 3.0.6 some Plug-ins appears to be updated and says that Firefox needs to restart.

When i do it and check the plugin list, the message "This Add-on will be updated when Firefox is restarted." shows again.
Then i restarted and there it is again.

Funny is that when i first run this version my top bars look weird, with double size and duplicat buttons.
This only stoped when i ask to update all plugins.

I updated firefox like i always did, extract "install" file to Firefox 3.0.5 folder.

'Save As' does not work

Submitted by sigur on February 17, 2009 - 3:20pm

Hello. My 3.0.6 Firefox portable has a problem with saving files.

When I click on a link to save any file the 'save as' box apears but the 'save button' does nothing, ie, the file won't be save. Now I oberved that the 'save as' in 'menu file' does not work too. I can not save the pages also.

Any idea?
Regards.

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