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Firefox 117.x and 118 Bug

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Submitted by bremaya on September 27, 2023 - 8:16pm

Firefox Portable 117 or 118 always closes abruptly when downloading any file from the internet, I tested the normal version (installed from the official Mozilla website) and the error does not happen, I copied the profile recently created by Firefox to the Firefox Portable folder and the error It didn't happen either, I think it has something to do with the default Firefox Portable profile.

I wanted a way to resolve this error because I don't want to have to recreate the entire profile from scratch, customize Firefox and my extensions.

How can I set the Cache to my FirefoxPortable folder?

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Submitted by Wisewiz on September 15, 2023 - 10:12pm

Installed the latest Firefox Portable today. Loving how well it does everything. My concern: I'm using the portable to avoid Firefox writing data to my C:\ drive. I have the program installed on D:\ in D:\Utilities II\FirefoxPortable, and I'd like to direct it to put the daily cache files in a directory in that folder, say, \Other\cache. I can't find help online that dates within this century (!), and I'm hoping someone here can help me out.

Multiple download failures of Firefox 117 through the Platform updater resulted in previous install corruption

Submitted by chris78 on August 30, 2023 - 10:54am

The FirefoxPortable folder only contains the Data subfolder. The Other and App subfolders are gone.
So I can no longer try another update.
I'm currently downloading the *.paf.exe file manually (as there may be something wrong with platform updater because I'm also experiencing download issues with Google Chrome 64-bit) and will try to install it back that way.

Can't remove Facebook when starting Firefox Portable

Submitted by Tetsuooo on August 14, 2023 - 1:19am

This is driving me nuts. Since recently I have Facebook appearing along with my other tabs no matter what I do.
What I did :
- delete facebook.com in history
- delete the whole history
- disable every extensions
- make sure default page should be a blank page
- delete profile
- delete any Mozilla folder from AppData/Local or Roaming
- reinstall Firefox Portable entirely
- restart the computer

Firefox ESR crashes when AlwaysUse32Bit=true

Submitted by Astrologeos on July 24, 2023 - 1:59pm

Hello!

Today I noticed that my computer was more sluggish than usual.

I did some digging and found out that I was running the 64bit version of PortableApps' Firefox ESR portable because I forgot to set up a FirefoxPortable.ini file.

However, when I make the file and write "AlwaysUse32Bit=true" in it, Firefox ESR Portable refuses to boot up, even with a clean profile.

What gives?

FF to FF ESR Automatically with FF 115 (Win7)

Submitted by frapper on July 23, 2023 - 10:40am

I read on Ghacks that "Mozilla plans to migrate Firefox Stable users on these three Windows versions to the Firefox ESR channel when Firefox 115 is released. This happens automatically and this special version of Firefox ESR will receive security updates until September 2024, its end of support date."

I'm running Win7 with a test install of FF Portable 114.0.2. When I install FF Portable 115.0.2 to that folder it remains regular FF Portable 115.0.2, not ESR, at least according to Help>About. Am I missing something? Will it continue to be regular FF Portable? Thanks.

About current Firefox Portable 105.0.2 and recurring Profile Missing issues

Submitted by SwimmeRM+ on July 22, 2023 - 6:01pm

Hello all,

I'm sorry for adding just another post on this topic but meeting 'Profile Missing' error message is somehow becoming an issue.
1st of all I manually upgraded to current Firefox Portable v105.0.2 over previous v105.0.1 that I probably only manually upgraded over previous v104.0.2 that if I recall well still gave me infamous error even if directly manually upgraded over previous v103.0.2:
'[ Profile Missing ]
/ ! \ Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.'

OK to Delete App\Firefox folder?

Submitted by dallas7 on July 9, 2023 - 5:09pm

A while back I noticed the ESR App\Firefox folder is empty (rightly so) and the not-ESR is still fully populated.

While I never cared about the App\Firefox folder and its now 205 files worth 423 MB since backing up my live D:\PORTABLES\FirefoxPortable folder from a desktop Win10 500 GB M.2 SSD goes swiftly to my Ethernet gigabit LAN NAS (nothing Wi-Fi). But I recently began using iDrive and even though I have Quantum Fiber 200 mbps up, I'd like to eliminate the overhead of backing up that directory from the NAS to the cloud.

google pop-up is sneaking in again on some pages+ other issues

Submitted by mozfan on June 19, 2023 - 4:42pm

This time I can turn it off with JSwitcher add-on, but even the add-on button is now frequently missing from the toolbar on many pages. Switching it off and on again makes it reappear, but it's happening too frequently now and is very annoying...

Most important, many links on some pages would not open, including Check for Updates on add-ons page!

Don't know if it's related, but screenshot is often non-functioning too and not only on excluded pages. Someone posted about this problem and found a solution by switching it off/on in about:config - any way to fix it permanently?

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