Firefox Portable

Hello,

for several years now I'm using three local installations of FF Portable on my PC.

I installed (extracted) all three of them to different directories (which I have full control over). I'm using them all at the same time for different purposes. Ofc FirefoxPortable.ini has the AllowMultipleInstances=true set. Up to version 117.0.1 everything was fine.

However I upgraded to version 118 today and now only the very first instance I start opens as expected. When I try to open the second or third instance they instead just open a new window of the first instance.

Firefox Portable 117 or 118 always closes abruptly when downloading any file from the internet, I tested the normal version (installed from the official Mozilla website) and the error does not happen, I copied the profile recently created by Firefox to the Firefox Portable folder and the error It didn't happen either, I think it has something to do with the default Firefox Portable profile.

I wanted a way to resolve this error because I don't want to have to recreate the entire profile from scratch, customize Firefox and my extensions.

Installed the latest Firefox Portable today. Loving how well it does everything. My concern: I'm using the portable to avoid Firefox writing data to my C:\ drive. I have the program installed on D:\ in D:\Utilities II\FirefoxPortable, and I'd like to direct it to put the daily cache files in a directory in that folder, say, \Other\cache. I can't find help online that dates within this century (!), and I'm hoping someone here can help me out.

Will this version be released by Portableapps?

The FirefoxPortable folder only contains the Data subfolder. The Other and App subfolders are gone.
So I can no longer try another update.
I'm currently downloading the *.paf.exe file manually (as there may be something wrong with platform updater because I'm also experiencing download issues with Google Chrome 64-bit) and will try to install it back that way.

This is driving me nuts. Since recently I have Facebook appearing along with my other tabs no matter what I do.
What I did :
- delete facebook.com in history
- delete the whole history
- disable every extensions
- make sure default page should be a blank page
- delete profile
- delete any Mozilla folder from AppData/Local or Roaming
- reinstall Firefox Portable entirely
- restart the computer

Hello!

Today I noticed that my computer was more sluggish than usual.

I did some digging and found out that I was running the 64bit version of PortableApps' Firefox ESR portable because I forgot to set up a FirefoxPortable.ini file.

However, when I make the file and write "AlwaysUse32Bit=true" in it, Firefox ESR Portable refuses to boot up, even with a clean profile.

What gives?

I read on Ghacks that "Mozilla plans to migrate Firefox Stable users on these three Windows versions to the Firefox ESR channel when Firefox 115 is released. This happens automatically and this special version of Firefox ESR will receive security updates until September 2024, its end of support date."

I'm running Win7 with a test install of FF Portable 114.0.2. When I install FF Portable 115.0.2 to that folder it remains regular FF Portable 115.0.2, not ESR, at least according to Help>About. Am I missing something? Will it continue to be regular FF Portable? Thanks.

Hello all,

I'm sorry for adding just another post on this topic but meeting 'Profile Missing' error message is somehow becoming an issue.
1st of all I manually upgraded to current Firefox Portable v105.0.2 over previous v105.0.1 that I probably only manually upgraded over previous v104.0.2 that if I recall well still gave me infamous error even if directly manually upgraded over previous v103.0.2:
'[ Profile Missing ]
/ ! \ Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.'

A while back I noticed the ESR App\Firefox folder is empty (rightly so) and the not-ESR is still fully populated.

While I never cared about the App\Firefox folder and its now 205 files worth 423 MB since backing up my live D:\PORTABLES\FirefoxPortable folder from a desktop Win10 500 GB M.2 SSD goes swiftly to my Ethernet gigabit LAN NAS (nothing Wi-Fi). But I recently began using iDrive and even though I have Quantum Fiber 200 mbps up, I'd like to eliminate the overhead of backing up that directory from the NAS to the cloud.