Firefox Portable

A few of us are wondering if or how a portable program such as FF and TB could be used as the default program in a desktop without installation of those normal -- non-portable programs.

The main question being would a portable version of an application be available to an OS to be set as default? And would there be any other complications or behavior changes??

Hello, I am aldreneo_aka_slyfox

co-creator of Splash! - The Splash Screen Extension
I was googling around and saw that some of your members recommended this extension.
I am currently developing splash! 2.0

I have had some complaints about Firefox portable and drive letters changing making the URL invalid...So I am adding relitive to Firefox binary URL support(!BIN!/splash.png)

I am also adding:
Update allwaysontop
Update close splash on main window to limit options(Because of the problems it causes with some options)
Update progress bar
Update in option screen preview so that it isn't so buggy

Although my question concerns Firefox 2.0, I'm interested in the generic question:
why install when there is portable version

- why would anyone want to install a program on hard disk when a portable version exists?

It seems a portable program is a cleaner / simpler solution in all respects than an installed program. (Less mess in the registry, no uninstall problems, and portable on movable devices.)

What am I missing? Are there *any* downsides to portable software (speed of execution, update...?)

Thanks

Hi

I sometimes can not intall add-ons with Firefox Portable.
It seems that I can not install another add-on after I installed one add-on (it is not because of a specific add-on, for everything).
Therefore, I had to restart firefox once to install one add-on.

What is going on?
My environment is Windows XP EN SP2.

Here's a weird one for you...

I've been having all sorts of problems, for the last week, with my thumb drive.

FFP crashed, and I had to reinstall it. My Miranda-IM db kept getting corrupt, and had to be repaired. Winamp was overflowing its' cache. Yada, yada, yada.

While trying to figure this out, I ran 'netstat' and discovered FFP was constantly 'phoning home' to Google. It looked like a classic worm signature, to me. After investigating this more, I discovered Mozilla and Google are working together to provide Fx2 with this anti-phish protection.

I tried running a local db, and the Goggle one -- didn't make any difference -- FFP was still constantly communicating with Google and crashing the proggies mentioned above.

On the page that displays the EULA, the Next button says Continue, however the EULA specifically mentions an "ACCEPT" button.

If I run Firefox browser are my history,websites visited,temporary files or anything, stored or retrievable from the administrator?

Hi All,

Do any of you have an idea why the file F:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\plc4.dll would suddenly become corrupted? I.e. it was preventing PFF from starting.

Three things happened on my machine from the time PFF last worked fine
- installing and uninstalling VMWare Workstation
- installing VMWare Server
- Upgrading PTB 1.5.0.8 to 1.5.0.9

I simply overwrote the file that windows thought was corrupt with the same file from firefox on my notebook. Would that be fine or should I rather fine a PFF version of the file?

I have tried updating FFP an TBP in the past with the automatic updates. I usually get the notification when I am at work. I connect through a proxy there. 99.99% of the time the update fails and hangs until I can manually update the entire program with one of your downloads.

Does the proxy connection have anything to do with updating?

If this is true it might explain all of the support topics that pop up after am automatic update is released.

Maybe FF of TB is handling portable media better, or maybe its just a coincidence that mine worked perfectly tonight for TBp 1.5.0.9 and FFP 2.0.0.1.

I'm using the The RunLocally entry because I use Portable Firefox on a CDRW.
Then, Firefox Portable copies my profile, plugins and Firefox binaries to my local temp directory : about 4 Mo! It's then very slow to start Firefox Portable from a CDRW.

Why not copying only the profile? It would be very quicker to start without copying plugins and Firefox binaries but using them from CDRW. Is it possible?