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2 Versions Question

Submitted by mjheagle8 on December 2, 2007 - 9:55pm

If I have Firefox 2.0.0.11 Portable on my drive and I installed Firefox 3 Beta 1. Before I ran it, I was wondering if having two different portable editions of Firefox will interfere with each other. I know it will hag a lost of space on my drive, but will there be any other negative effects of having two portable version Firefox on my drive?
Thanks for your help,
Mike

[Outdated] Software update will overwrite local Firefox's registry settings

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Submitted by John T. Haller on December 1, 2007 - 1:18pm

Firefox's updater has a bug where a portable or secondary install of Firefox will overwrite the locally installed Firefox's registry settings when version update is performed. It appears this bug was introduced within the last few point releases of Firefox 2.x. It's filed as Bug 406335 within Bugzilla. Please vote for this bug if you have a Bugzilla account.

What Goes Wrong

Auto-update borks local FF

Submitted by Bruce Pascoe on November 30, 2007 - 10:48pm

I've found with the recent versions of FFP, auto-update causes some of the local FF references--namely, the Start menu Internet link and Add/Remove programs entry--to point to FFP.

The first time this happened I was very confused, as after I removed my JumpDrive and attempted to launch my local copy of FF from the top of the Start menu, Windows gave me an error. I've since figured out the problem, and it seems the only solution is to update FFP *first*, then update the local copy. Either that or reinstall local FF after updating FFP.

3.0b1 crash!

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Submitted by skyquakes on November 30, 2007 - 6:23pm

i tried 3.1b and it crashed at just start point, i click to restart firefox at the notification window, but got the same crash error message

Crash! Bang! Boom!

We're sorry, but Firefox hit an unexpected problem and crashed. We'll try to restore your tabs and windows when it restarts.

noscripts extension

Submitted by usera on November 29, 2007 - 1:07pm

I have a problem with the noscript extension where some scripts that are blocked can cause firefox to freeze and I have to shutdown. This apparently doesn't happen when using the regular firefox version. Anyone know what might be the problem? What type of information might help solve this problem? Thanks for any info.

Questions about Flash

Submitted by Anthony A on November 28, 2007 - 4:58pm

I just installed the Portable apps start menu and Portable Firefox and am very impressed. I can't believe I didn't do this sooner. Great job with this.

Any ways my question is about Flash. I read all the topics on the Portable Apps site and the many forum posts about Flash and Portable Firefox but they don't answer my problem/questions. I tried to install Flash as a extension from the link that was provided but it just didn't seem to work. So I tried the manual install of copying the Flash dll's from my regular Firefox and putting them in the

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