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My plugins won't install

Submitted by crm114 on December 14, 2006 - 2:03am

None of my plugins or my themes will install!
They all say "This addon will be installed when Firefox is restarted"
I have restarted it, pulled out my flash drive, switched machines and still no result.
I also uninstalled and reinstalled a few apps and nothing.
Please HELP!

Missing Bookmarks

Submitted by sierra3 on December 12, 2006 - 9:21pm

I've been trying to use Firefox Portable at work carrying it on a thumbdrive. When I first starting using it I was able to keep bookmarks from one use to another. However, recently my bookmarks disappeared. They will save, but each time I disconnect my thumbdrive and move it to another machine or come back to the same one, the bookmarks are gone. Any suggestions?

Customize toolbar

Submitted by Miles on December 12, 2006 - 2:35pm

In FFP 2.0 don't need the space taken by the "history" button but it will not drag from the toolbar to the "customize toolbar" window. In fact none of the original buttons will drag off -- file,edit, view, history, bookmarks, tools, help & prefs. Only the ones added will drag off such as Adblock Plus and Launchy.

Is there another method to remove the "history" button?

Page Loads Slow or Only Partially

Submitted by mnunez on December 12, 2006 - 9:06am

This site will take forever to load or simply load only partially:

http://www.projo.com (The Providence Journal)

I used to have the same problem with CNN.com. It seems to me as if FireFox Portable has trouble loading content from different servers on one page, such as advertisements.

For example, if you go to projo.com you see the ads at the top of the page or on the left will load, but in the status bar at the bottom left of PortableFireFox, you will see either of two addresses Firefox is taking time to negotiate with: "spe.atdmt.com" or "ads.belointeractive.com".

The page will either stall there (with only the two ads displayed) or take 5 minutes to load completely. Like I said, I used to notice the same problem at CNN, but they have since made some adjustments to their page that don't cause the error any longer.

U3 Firefox ??

Submitted by davidb67 on December 12, 2006 - 6:29am

Although i've tried Firefox portable v2.0, it's not U3-enabled - is it ever going to be?
i'm still running v1.5.x on my U3 drive, and would love to upgrade.

TIA

No "help" in file menu

Submitted by jafriede on December 11, 2006 - 3:52pm

I just downloaded Portable Firefox 2.0. The "help" choice in the file menu (File,Edit,View,etc.) is missing. I run only the Netcraft toolbar and Foxmarks extensions. Both of these worked fine in previous versions. Also, none of my bookmarks are there.

EXTENSIONS AND THEMES

Submitted by GUNNUT7 on December 9, 2006 - 1:03pm

HELP!i installed ff portable on my usb stick,put in all the extensions and themes i wanted and everything has been working great.now when i open the extensions box they are gone.no extensions listed and no themes listed.they are all working fine,just not listed and i have no access.your help would be greatly appreciated,

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