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Firefox Portable Appdata/Roaming redirect

Submitted by BYDS on July 14, 2019 - 11:56pm

Hi all,

I'm not the most techiest person but am the go to at my workplace as I'm the youngest so apologies if this is a straightforward question.

There is a file that a Firefox extension pulls from AppData/Roaming. I am trying to get the Firefox Portable to pull from the USB instead from the computer, so a redirect of sorts. I thought this may be the answer https://portableapps.com/node/17637 but was not able to find any straight forward way to implement this.

Updating Firefox Portable makes it not portable?

Submitted by Esanik on July 12, 2019 - 3:03pm

Every time I start FF Portable 67, I get nagged that an update is available. As others have noted, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to stop this nagging. If you give in and let the auto updater update it, does the program retain its portable nature or does it become not portable anymore, writing to your system drive instead of only using the Portable folder?

I have an SSD that I am hoping to prevent from wearing out too soon, so don't want writes to my C: drive.

Files that can be safely deleted from a Firefox profile?

Submitted by jaredmilkins on July 9, 2019 - 12:26pm

Hello Portable Apps family, Can you help me understand which files and folders can be safely deleted from a Firefox Portable profile manually from the "Data\profile" folder. Let's say that I created a Firefox Portable profile in a folder named "FirefoxPortable" and made all necessary changes I like and placed it in drive "D:"

[Fixed] Some Firefox/Thunderbird 68+/SeaMonkey extensions will fail to load after moving

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Submitted by John T. Haller on June 13, 2019 - 3:55pm

ISSUE: Some extensions (example NoScript) will fail to move on first run after moving from one location to another in Firefox Portable 67.0.2. This is due to the reliance on a file called addonStartup.json.lz4 in the profile directory that stores full paths. This file is not portable.

Uninstalled an app which corrupted almost all extensions in Firefox Portable

Submitted by Kernel on June 12, 2019 - 1:15am

I'm running Firefox Portable Developer's Edition v67.0b19.

I uninstalled an app which normally inserts an extension into all browsers on the system, including Firefox. Normally, uninstalling this app causes those added extensions to be uninstalled, and all is well.

link in thunderbird portable opens new firefox session rather than using already opened session

Submitted by jim g on June 11, 2019 - 9:20am

A couple of updates ago, I don't remember exactly when it started, when I click on a link in an email from thunderbird portable, it opens a new version of firefox rather than using the currently open firefox session. What worse, it doesn't load any of the extensions.
This is on latest windows 10. The "choose a default browser" is set to firefox.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated as this has become more annoying each time.

I only get the splash screen for few seconds and firefox Portable does not start

Submitted by stnetwork2 on May 30, 2019 - 10:55am

I only get the splash screen for few seconds and firefox Portable does not start

Windows 10 Pro 64bit
Desktop pc
Installed in C:PortableApps

I have Firefox std installed and working okay

If I try and start firefox Portable with std firefox running I get the std error that firefox is already running

ChromiumPortable works fine and both these are working on my windows 10 laptop

Suggestions to sort this would be great, thanks

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