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RE: Missing Extensions

Submitted by georgecoffey5 on May 28, 2008 - 5:19am

Hi all,

I have Portable Firefox 2.0.0.14 installed on my Portable USB Hard Drive. I installed about 54 extensions on Portable Firefox using my home PC. When I came into work, Firefox loaded much quicker than expected and there was hardly any extensions. I checked in the Addons and they still seam to be there.

They're not disabled or uninstalled. I am behind the proxy. I bet you when I go home they'll all appear again. However the funny thing is I can't say synchronise my bookmarks because all the addons that are in the menus are gone as well.

FirefoxPortable.exe closes and firefox.exe won't stop

Submitted by pats0 on May 27, 2008 - 6:42pm

Hi,
I am using the latest Firefox Portable. I open FirefoxPortable.exe and then it loads firefox.exe, which works fine. But I notice (in Process Explorer) that FirefoxPortable.exe closes after opening firefox.exe. Furthermore, when I close the Firefox Browser, firefox.exe still runs (as seen in Process Explorer) until I have to kill it.

I am on Windows XP and do have a standard version of Firefox as my default browser. I am not sure if this is causing the problem. Please help.

Running FF2 Portable while other Firefox instances are running?

Submitted by tadow on May 27, 2008 - 1:08pm

I need FF2 with a fairly clean profile for my work as a developer, but I use FF3 (non-portable) for normal stuff (like mainly gmail). I've been unable to get FF2 portable to start when FF3 is still running. It beeps at me and says "Another instance of Firefox is already running...".

Is there a way to disable this check so that I can keep FF2 loaded to do work and still run FF3 with all my plugins? It seems like since FF2 is "portable" that this check is pretty useless.

Thx in advance.

Divx not shown in file management

Submitted by wolf99 on May 26, 2008 - 1:09pm

Hi All,

I recently tried to add VLC plugin to my portable FF (added libvlc.dll & npvlc.dll to plugins dir) to try and add DivX support.

the plugin seems to be properly installed, its showing in about: plugins and some file types have been automatically assigned to it in the file management options. But in neither of these locations does it mention DivX files types.

Firefox Portable (3RC1) $TEMP writing

Submitted by Shakalaka on May 25, 2008 - 1:48pm

Generally, during use firefox tries to write to the host machine's $TEMP folder. I would like to disable this, to avoid any risk of an undelete spying. Most data that ends in $TEMP is temporal files, whose contents I don't know. But I don't want anyone to see I watch videogame speedrun videos (some people using those computers would not like that, think of Jack Thompson-y mentality, and also general privacy).

Rename Executable FF3RC1?

Submitted by NancysBrother on May 24, 2008 - 12:58pm

Hello,

The PortableApps FF2 allowed you to rename firefox.exe and then edit an ini file to specify its new name.

This was the only way I could get FF to run at work; without renaming the executable, the network antivirus program would delete firefox.exe from my memory stick when I tired to launch it.

I can't figure out how to rename the executable for FF3RC1 and still have FireFoxPortable.exe run it.

Thanks for your help.

Portable "Profiles"?

Submitted by Mgamerz on May 21, 2008 - 7:27pm

Seeing as this is one of the bigger portable apps (as in most downloaded), and it's portable, wouldn't it be a nifty feature to have 'Profiles'...

, like proxy settings and stuff? I go from my school to my IT center, and I always have to change the proxy settings. That'd be a really nice feature to have.
(I don't know where to put this.)
~Mgamerz

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