Firefox Portable

Hi All,

I have just found the range of s/w available to run on my USB drive and am having so much fun with it.

I have installed Firefox and a number of add-ons.

This morning I was setting up some of my important bookmarks within the All-in-One sidebar toolbar. When I then loaded up on my computer at work none of the bookmarks were there. They were not on the Bookmarks toolbar or on the All-in-One Sidebar.

Can anyone give me some help with this.

Thanks in advance

Chris R

Hello All,

How can I migrate FireFox 3.0.1 Desktop Edition profile information to the portable edition? I want to copy bookmarks, passwords, cookies, plugins, etc from the desktop edition profile to the portable edition.

How can I do that?

Regards
Sree

I want to redistribute Firefox on a CD along with a big folder hierarchy full of HTML pages, images, PDF files, etc.

FirefoxPortable seems ideal for the job, because it's free, easily and completely customisable, etc.

The problem is, when launching FirefoxPortable from CD, it takes a *long* time to start. I'm talking about 30 seconds, on some computers even nearly a minute. The bottleneck doesn't seem to be the CD drive though - it seems as if a lot of things need to be processed to create a temporary profile in the temporary directory.

This is not a problem for me, but it may be of interest to John or other users:

I have discovered that when your portable drive's drive letter changes, the "save files to" path in the options does not change with it.

any fixes?

I feel really bad posting here, since it looks like everybody else knows what they're talking about, and I don't really know anything about computers. So sorry in advance.

Here's the problem: Every time I'm installing the program an error report comes up that says something to the effect of "problem writing to the file 'classic.jar.'

I tried installing FF2 instead, and the same thing happened, though with a different .jar. I'm deeply sorry for asking what I'm sure is a stupid question, but I don't have any idea what to do.

Firefox Portable > Tools > Options > Advanced > System Defaults > Check Now
set Windows 2000 > Tools > Folder Options... > File Types > HTM (and others) > open
to "C:\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\firefox.exe" -requestPending -osint -url "%1"

Why not
to "C:\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe" -requestPending -osint -url "%1" ?

Lovin' FF3 but hatin' the fact that so many add-ons/extensions create new home pages that launch when I start FF3. I don't see these additional URLs in my tools/homepage list (/en-US.start2.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official). What gives? Any idea how to keep these from launching without removing the add-ons?

Add-ons that are creating home pages:
Download Helper
FlashGot
FireShot Pro (though it may just be complaining because I like the free version)
Yapta
FireFox Companion for Ebay

I've only been using the PA Suite for a couple of weeks but I love it! I've added a few extra apps, including my old pal Pegasus Mail. The only problem I have yet to solve is how to link FF mailto:s to Pegasus Mail. I've tried the old trick of creating a USER.JS file pointing to PM's WSENDTO but no luck. If there is no solution yet (as per FAQ #3), I fondly hope that one is forthcoming.

On the other hand, if someone here has a solution, please post it!

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I just upgraded to FF portable 3.0.1 from 3.0 using a fresh download from portableapps. When I loaded the application for the first time it took me to a welcome screen saying I am running Firefox 2.0.0.14 and saying I should upgrade.

Help > About says I'm running 3.0.1, but Firefox Addons page says I need to upgrade to install addons.

Is the installation broadcasting an incorrect version number? How can I check?

I've been running PFF 2.0.0.8 in Win98SE with no major problems up until today when PFF hung 3 times in rapid succession. This motivated me to upgrade to PFF v3, which would not start at all. So I reinstalled PFF v.2.0.0.8 and it did start. However, while it does start, and the "about:config" entered in the address bar works and, from that address, I can click on the HOME button (an html page I created that is stored in a directory in the Firefox directory) and that page comes up.