You are here

Firefox Portable

Firefox starting three different ways!

Submitted by Julia Thornton on December 19, 2008 - 3:38am

I have a problem I have no idea how to begin to fix. I installed Firefox Portable 3.0.4 five days ago after I transferred all files on my USB to an external drive. This was because my old Firefox 3.0 which would run very reliably from a USB stick suddenly stopped working on Vista on my laptop. (Vista also crashed my USB stick regularly but that was a problem caused by other software on the stick) In an effort to correct this I installed a new (3.0.4) version of Firefox Portable and copied all files in the Data/profile directory across to the new version.

Lost My Search Engine

Submitted by cicalicious on December 13, 2008 - 7:49am

I don't know how this happened. My firefox running fine as usual but just now when i opened it all the search engine was lost! i tried to restart it but it's still the same.

does anyone know how to restore all the default search engine? Coz the restore default button in manage search engine doesn't work and i can't find any google or yahoo search engine plugins in mozilla addons website.

BTW i'm using firefox 2.0.0.18

how to delete registry key of firefox portable 3.x within WIN XP without Administration account

Submitted by sl552114 on December 9, 2008 - 4:07pm

Alright, that's the issue: I can run firefox portable on the company computer, but of course it leaves the registry keys after being used.
Since firefox can 'write' them there without the administration account, how can I delete them from there again? I am thinking of a batch file maybe. But unfortuantely I cannot test stuff, but I don't want my admins to unveal my "dirty little secret", since then they'll find a way to block that as well, I'm sure!

Any quick help is absolutlely highly appreciated!

Thanks in advance...

Persistent title popup in Firefox 3.0.4

Submitted by simong on December 9, 2008 - 6:31am

Hi, can't find any other reference to this anywhere but I'm having a problem with the last title popup on a page appearing when my cursor is hovered over anything on a page. If an item has a title attribute the title changes but then it persists until the cursor passes over another item with a title attribute and so on. This seems to have been introduced with 3.0.4 but I'm not sure if it's a Firefox or Portable Apps problem as I only run Portable Firefox under Windows on my office laptop. Any ideas?

Can not safe settings anymore

Submitted by MH07 on December 6, 2008 - 4:15am

Hi there,

I have installed Firefox Portable 3.0.04 on an XP system where I have no admin rights.

Due to no apparent reason, I now can not safe changes to settings (Tools/Options/*) anymore.
Everytime I restart Firefox Portable the changes are gone. Changes via about:config do not sustain either.

Any ideas?

Regards, Michael

Common Profile for multiple Firefox instalations

Submitted by Frank1 on December 6, 2008 - 3:53am

I usually use 2 computers, but sometimes I need to work on others. I have installed Firefox Portable on my USB flash drive and works well on both computers. The only problem is I have difficulty making FFP the default web browser. I guess, since it is portable, maybe it's not supposed to be.

So, what I would like to do is install full Firefox on the 2 machines and configure them to use the profile that is on the USB flash drive (with FFP). In this way all 3 Firefoxes would use the same profile. Only one computer is used at a time. Is this feasible?

Pages