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How does portable firefox work?? does it leave recoverable data

Submitted by mvarone on January 11, 2007 - 5:30pm

Hi I have been trying to find information on how portable firefox works. I have serached many forums and have come up with nothing.

I am refering to if the app leaves recoverable data. As you are browsing does it write temp to the drive? and if so upon exit does this mean the data is still present and the only way to truly remove data is by erasing free space???

If anyone knows the answers to these questions please advise.

Cheers

Unable to access https sites (like gmail.com)

Submitted by AverageWaistdude on January 11, 2007 - 11:43am

Hi there - I have just installed Firefox Portable version 2.0 (in fact I am using it right now). I can surf regular sites (like news.bbc.co.uk) However if I try to access my gmail account for example Firefox wont let me! --> "Server not found -Firefox can't find the server at www.google.com."

Help!!!! I think the problem is in the settings but I cant work it out! Thanks

Update to Firefox Portable 2.001 (auto update?) does not work with Login King 2007

Submitted by jkeifer3 on January 11, 2007 - 8:27am

Greetings to all as this is my first time on the forum. Earlier today, when I launched a Firefox Portable session via Login King, I got a message alerting me to a new version of Firefox being available (v2.001). Must be a maintenance release but I installed it anyway. Now the interface to Login King is defunct in that the id's and passwords are no longer automatically filled in.

Anyone experience this and have any ideas about how to proceed? Thanks in advance and have a happy New Year!

Joe

Setting cookies in user.js

Submitted by josepinto on January 8, 2007 - 11:56am

Hi,

I understand that Portable Firefox is hardcoded to prevent accepting cookies, even if you set Firefox to accept cookies.
However, I knew that one can set Portable Firefox to accept cookies by modifying the file user.js, but forgot how to do it.
Can someone tell me which setting it is?

Thanks in advance,

José Pinto

File Asociation

Submitted by gabriel626 on January 7, 2007 - 12:43pm

Hi.
First at all: Tanks for ur work and sorry by my english(i'm spanish speaker)
I use Portable Firefox in a usb pendrive and also in my desktop pc(just backup portablefirefox folder when formating... =)). I have associated *.shtml, *.htm, *.html, *.xht and *.xhtml to FirefoxPortable.exe so the asociations works fine with filenames with no spaces, but when the filename has one o more spaces firefox doesnt open the file.
Looks like FirefoxPortable.exe pass the filename to Firefox.exe without the "" ... i'm right? that can be fixed?

Thanks!!!
Grabriel.

Where's the cache?

Submitted by fergus on January 6, 2007 - 9:51am

Sorry, this must have been asked and answered 00s of times already, but I can't find it. I downloaded FF 2.0 and auto-updated to FF 2.0.0.1 no problem. No default settings have been altered at all. (I like them as they are.) When surfing there's no usb activity at all (good; everything is very fast) but screen presentation on second and subsequent page visits is not just fast, it's instantaneous. Where are all the pages, images, etc being cached? RAM? the HD?

Error message: Firefox is already running when running under wine with Suse 10.2

Submitted by eric11210 on January 5, 2007 - 4:57pm

Hi all,

I hope someone here can help me. I'm relatively new to Linux. I was a windows user for a long time but got increasingly frustrated with it and switched over a few days ago. I have a pocket drive with my portable firefox and gaimportable on it. Can't get either to work. Firefox keeps saying another instance of firefox is already running but not responding. It needs to be cleared if I want to load up or I need to go and reboot. Trouble is, this is just after I reboot. So Firefox isn't running.

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