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Want portable FF to open media with portable app

Submitted by Boatman on April 7, 2007 - 11:19am

I would like portable FF to always open embedded video or audio files with a portable player such as VLC Media Player, rather than the "standard" for the computer such as WMP. Is there any way to make that happen? Would Firefox Add-on MediaPlayerConnectivity at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446 help with this? How do others work around this?

Thanks!

Boatman

Addons won't work

Submitted by FabianN on April 5, 2007 - 12:19pm

I am having this odd problem.
I like to configure all my portable apps on my harddrive for the speed, then just drag and drop the files onto the thumb drive.
At first I thought I had done something wrong, but every time I install addons and move it, I start up firefox the first time and it won't start up at all. The proccess is running, but no even the splash screen shows up.
And then I close that, pull the drive out and plug it back in, and it starts up fine, but all the addons are gone.

Anyone having this problem?

After a few days use, FF Portable will not load and will hang with 100% CPU usage

Submitted by cohenjor on April 4, 2007 - 6:01pm

Great program, but I have a problem - every few days I need to re-load all the files back onto my flash drive because, when trying to load the application, it will hang after the splash screen disappears with 100% CPU usage.

It's not file corruption - the flash drive is a new and high quality OCZ flash drive that hasn't given me any problems and this happens too regularly after copying files over.

It could be an extension - I use a bunch but none of them give me any problems at all when the application is working correctly.

Always run PortableApps, even on desktop?!

Submitted by amag on April 3, 2007 - 1:02am

I saw some posts asking about synchronizing their desktop/laptop Firefox with their USB flashdrive PortableApp Firefox, and how there's a utility out there called PUSS in development.

Couldn't you just use a file synchronization program (such as SyncBack, or rsync) to synchronize the Firefox profiles of both your desktop and your USB versions? But the question is: where are the exact files to sync, can you just sync the entire "profile" folder or does PortableFirefox make special changes outside of the "profile" folder?

Install gets ...Firefox_Portable_2.0.0.2_en-us.paf.exe is not supported archive

Submitted by rogfran on April 2, 2007 - 9:45am

Each time I try to install a freshly downloaded file, and then having selected where to place the istallation on my USB stick, I get the following message:

"Install gets ...Firefox_Portable_2.0.0.2_en-us.paf.exe is not supported archive"

Any advice please?

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