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Microsoft OneCare Live

Submitted by nirajbhatt7 on April 29, 2008 - 8:57pm

Firefox Portable will not connect to the internet if "Microsoft OneCare Live" is installed. As a matter of fact any application (I have only tested Thunderbird) will not connect to the internet. I have even tried to add the file manually to the firewall.
FYI I am using this setup on Vista.
If I turn off the firewall everything works fine. But I can't do that now can I Smile

Anyway to...

Submitted by -FDM64- on April 29, 2008 - 8:09pm

Make it possible to have multiple FireFoxs installed onto the FlashDrive and still be compatible with the suite? Well truth be told, I already tried, and it works, but John (or anyone else that can recompile FireFox) give them the titles of Portable FireFox 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 3.0? Thanks (as is they appear in relatively the same way, but with a misplaced comma. or hyphen, all I want is it to read the same way for all, but the version number appended.)

Thanks for your time.

Figured out how to do it. XD
Recompiled.

Java taking 100% CPU...?

Submitted by foxcole on April 29, 2008 - 4:42pm

This happens in both Windows XP and Vista Home Premium.

When I'm running a tab in Firefox 2.0.1.14 that contains any Java component, the CPU runs up to 100% whenever the tab receives focus or reloads, or when I click on the Java object, such as a widget on my Gcogle home page or a mind map created in FreeMind. This happened in 2.0.1.13 as well, but I don't recall it happening in versions before that. (I only update FF from the PortableApps download, never the automatic update.)

FirefoxExecutable in INI file not working

Submitted by quackstar on April 29, 2008 - 10:34am

I'm tring to change the file that opens with portable firefox. i changed the name of firefox.exe to s.exe and in the ini file its FirefoxExecutable=s.exe. why is it still looking for firefox.exe? here is the whole ini file:

[FirefoxPortableSettings]
AgreedToLicense=YES
LastProfileDirectory=H:\full\pasuite\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Data\profile
FirefoxExecutable=s.exe
AllowMultipleInstances=true

entries in registry

Submitted by ottosykora on April 29, 2008 - 6:53am

I thought that ff portable will make only few entries in registry, like some recent files list etc.

But now I have seen that in my registry (XP) there are lot of referencies to the firefox on the stick.

Is this normal or where does this come from ?

How to change Firefox Portable icon

Submitted by Starcom on April 29, 2008 - 5:13am

It's not a question but an issue to do it because I need it and I wasn't able to found how to do. Perhaps it would be helpfull for someone else.

To change the Firefox Portable icon, you need a .ICO file, rename it into main-window.ico then put it into the path \FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\chrome\icons\default if they not exist, create all missed folders.

That's all Biggrin

REpeated extension/profile corruption

Submitted by brewmanc on April 28, 2008 - 10:17pm

Hi,
I've been having a problem adding extensions. I get the -203 unexplained error at the end of each .xpi download. I've tried removing PFF, reinstalling and the same thing happens. I've tried it with regular FF and the same thing is happening. I know it's not incompatability with the extensions since my laptop has the same ones I'm trying to load and runs fine.

Wierd Bug

Submitted by porta-nerd on April 27, 2008 - 11:44am

I just let the firefox auto-update install version 2.0.0.14 and all of a sudden, firefox could not find any servers, including, but not limited to, mozilla.com and portableapps.com. I tried re-installing it by downloading the newest installer and it still doesn't work. I originally downloaded version 2.0.0.11 and it worked fine. Version 2.0.0.12 and 2.0.0.13 worked fine too, and they were installed by the firefox auto-update.

media player extension

Submitted by inlandsurfer1 on April 26, 2008 - 10:31am

Im having problems loading the media player extension for firefox onto the porable app. Everytime i try to load it it just seems to pull up the full version that i have on the computer. When i try "Get extensions" in the add-ons menu, there doesnt seem to be a windows media player extension on the website. Im also having the same problems loading extensions to most of my other programs too. Is there some universal fix?

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