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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?

What? (update failure!)

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Submitted by Bahamut on March 29, 2007 - 9:31pm

I can't update, not even in safe mode. It says it found the update, but then the little progress bar runs for a while (no actual progress, just the 3 little bars running), doesn't actually connect, and says it downloaded the update and wants me to restart. So I close Fx, open it, and it says it needs to download a full update, and does the same thing ad infinitum. Forecasfox does the same thing too for some reason. The three boxes will go on forever.

Loading Speeds

Submitted by Riyonuk on March 29, 2007 - 4:38pm

How come it takes so long for it to load when switching from diffrent pc's? It still takes a while to load from the same pc, why cant it load as fast as Portable PuTTy? That up and running before the splash screen even closes. As Im typing this, its already been about 3min and firefox still hasnt loaded yet. Of course Im used to this...

When I click on an URL...

Submitted by fluzjer on March 29, 2007 - 1:36pm

I only use Firefox Portable. Every time I click on an URL on a mail or in MS WORD, it open "another" firefox, not my portable firefox with my own configuration, my bookmarks, my extensions... but another "clean" firefox.

It weird because I don´t have instelled the "Official" version, justt the portable.

I want to know how can I do to open my FF when I click on a link.

Sorry for my english

Cannot display different language encode

Submitted by siulung on March 28, 2007 - 3:23am

I have recentely found firefoxportable and found this really helpful but found a problem.

when i am running firefoxportable on a computer without admin right, and without language pack installed on the computer, if i run firefoxportable to visit some other language web site ( chinese for example ) i am not able to change the encode to display the web page in that language even tho i have the options to such a language and all i got are a bunch of uni-code characters.

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