Firefox Portable

Sorry, I know syncing FFP with local copies has been covered in the past but my question is slightly different. I'm very new to Linux, so I obviously can not run FFP exclusively from a flash drive. I have a virtual machine running windows but don't want to rely on it (I can however access my portable apps within it).

Is there an easy way to copy my FFPE settings to my installed local Linux copy (by settings I am referring to bookmarks, add-ons, themes, etc).

I've been beating up my Vista64 laptop to get it to work like I want.

After many, many attempts, clicking on a link in Thunderbird Portable would start a clean install of Firefox, and not start my own Firefox Portable. Of course, if Firefox Portable was already running, there was never a problem.

It seems that Control Panel / Default Programs / Set Associations / Protocol (not the file types portion of the listing!) only allowed choosing Firefox or Internet Explorer with no option to "browse" or search for other programs. This affects the HTTP and HTTPS protocols.

It says here
https://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#plugins

"Flash is available as an extension. Just click the link"

I do. Follow the text (even restart) and then go to YouTube to be greeted by:

"Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player."

Huh... so how does this work?

When I try to add on an extension (for example, FireShot), I click the "add extension" button and after some churning I get:

Firefox could not install the file at

https://addons.mozilla.org/downloads/file/42641/fireshot-0.63-fx-win.xpi

because: Download error
-228

This has happened with more than one extension.

Hello,
I'm looking for a solution to watch Videostreams, different to flash.
For example the German TV-Channel ZDF offers good quality information about world-news:
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/9602?inPopup=true
for watching this i can choose between 3 different plugins
http://www.rafzahn.com/pics/zdf_mediathek_streams.png
*Windows Mediaplayer
-> I dont like it that much, but i think it is installed on many Windows-PCs.
Is it possible to use it?
*VLC
-> I think most of us have installed VLC-Portable, but i read that the FF Plugin is not portable...
*Realplayer

I need to run Firefox installed on my notebook, and Firefox Portable at the same time. When I have the installed Firefox running, and try to open the Firefox Portable version, it says: "Another instance of Firefox is already running"
Is there any way to have both of them running at the same time??
Please help....

Happy New Year!

I'm running Cross-Platform Firefox 1.5 (and Thunderbird!) on my flash drive and it runs super in either Mac or PC mode, but it doesn't, by design, keep the cache out of security reasons. I feel confident enough that I can watch out for my drive, so is there a way to alter the config files and enable the cache in the flash drive?

Thanks for any suggestions and Happy New Year!

James Greenidge
New York

my school just updated to owa 07 and firefox portable wont log in it says that my username or password is invalid. Ive cleared all the private data and turned off plugins but it still wont work. It works on the local firefox fine even with all the same plugins

I usually use IEtab but it wont work either way it works both ways on the local one.

Hi,

I tried looking for this in the support area but I didn't find it. Sorry if I missed this somewhere else.

I run Firefox exclusively (I wish) from an SD card. I can port the card easily and use Firefox anywhere, especially when I work as a contractor somewhere.

Whenever I run FF portable it comes up with a little message saying my flash drive is read only, so it has to put some temporary files on the local HDD. I don't think my flash drive is R-O because I can create and edit files on it but FF portable insists it is...

How can I fix this?