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Variable home page - Live CD

Submitted by FirefoxRocks on December 8, 2007 - 4:51pm

I have a modified version of Firefox (colours changed on toolbars, menus removed, etc) that I would like to redistribute for educational purposes. It states so explicitly when you launch the software.

Everything is set and ready to go except for 1 little problem:

CD drive letters change on different computers. For example, it is D:\ at home, E:\ on my old system, and it could be F:\ or G:\ at school! I cannot make a D:\index.xhtml file as my home page because then what if the drive isn't called D:\?

newbie needs help with bookmarks on portable firefox

Submitted by panewbie on December 7, 2007 - 1:37pm

Hi all, i'm new to forums & portable apps but recently downloaded PFF onto a USB stick & thought i should get the same bookmarks launching regardless of what PC I use, but when I use a PC other than the one I installed PFF onto my USB I only get the default bookmarks. I've checked FirefoxPortable\Data\profile & my bookmarks are there but as IE icon (guess I must have imported them via IE), is this the problem? I'm not that technical so hope somebody can explain in simple terms. cheers

Extensions only working on home computer

Submitted by timtranslates on December 4, 2007 - 5:10am

Hi

A few weeks back my extensions stopped working on "foreign" (ie, not my own) computers. They just don't appear. This is quite annoying as I am a university lecturer and I show my students how to use many of the extensions, but I now have to switch to the local installation of Firefox because I can't access any of my extensions when running my Firefox Portable away from home. I also lose my spelling dictionaries (I only have access to US English when away from home). Any ideas? The extensions all seem to be installed on my portable hard drive.

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[Outdated] Software update will overwrite local Firefox's registry settings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

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