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Tracks on company

Submitted by phantomdaz on May 30, 2006 - 5:35pm

If I use my U3 with portable firefox on my work laptop, will there be any stray .JPG' s or other surfing information on the company laptop?

I go to banking sites and have a family site that I do not want to have any info that could be found on my laptop when traveling.

Kinda new to the portable thing, just ordered the U3 but I also know I could just use a Thumb drive but the price for a 2 gig U3 was pretty good
Thanks in advance for the info
Daz

how to save the preferences correct?

Submitted by sph on May 29, 2006 - 11:09am

hello everybody!

as a great fan of toe portable fox i'm using it very often. but i've got a problem with the settings - there are some errors i couldn't fix, and websearch only show me the way to this site Wink

my problem:
the browser-settings weren't saved.

i use PFF on an usb-stick, on computers with various BS (win2000, winNT, winXP ...). but every time i plug my usb-device on a different computer, all settings i've made are gone.

means: the toolbar looks like "default", my theme is away, different toolbars are shown which i didn't want to, browser-preferences are "default" and so on.

New entry for PFF FAQ

Submitted by Bruce Pascoe on May 28, 2006 - 6:50pm

Since this is a common problem and I've just now found the solution, here's how to fix the "extensions always showing up greyed out" problem that some FF users have encountered. Perhaps you could add it to the FAQ, John?

The solution is to close down Firefox, delete extensions.rdf from the profile directory, then restart FF. Once this has been done, the extensions will be available for use again.

What is the advantage of using PFF over a nightly zip build of FF?

Submitted by raj on May 26, 2006 - 4:00pm

I have been using the latest nightly zip build of FireFox on my iPod. I have configured my profile to reside in my iPod using the FF profile manager so that I can carry my extensions along. I haven't found a way to change the profiles.ini path from the default %AppPath% folder, but the first time I use FF from my iPod, I configure it to use the profile present in my iPod. That way my settings and bookmarks are available whereever I use the nightly FF build.

How does Portable Firefox differ from the method I use?

Different Language in FF

Submitted by McLeod on May 26, 2006 - 12:35pm

Hello,

at first..., sorry for my terrible english :-D.
I use FF for and now I've bought an USB-Stick for myself.
I like FF and I use it on my computer with the german language.
Now I get PFF :-), it's a fine program and I have no problem to use it with
the english language, but I'm to lazy.
I want to know, how I can change the language of this really good program?

Greetz

McLeod

PS: I'm also using Thunderbird as well

Passwords aren't saved!

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Submitted by Bahamut on May 25, 2006 - 12:44pm

After my horrible corruption incident, I had to basically start over. I had a backup I made with FEBE, so I have my extensions and bookmarks, but for some reason Fx won't save my login info any more. It prompts for the master password when I go to a site that has a login, but doesn't store the login info. It has only asked if I want it to remember passwords twice and it saved those, but hasn't actually put them in the boxes when I go to the site. There is one exception, though: FireFTP. It saved that info, and I do not need to enter it when I use FireFTP.

userprofile error

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Submitted by Bahamut on May 24, 2006 - 8:46am

I've been using the ini, and ever since I have, files that should be put in PortableApps\PortableFirefox\
Data\userprofile\ are put in same directory as the launcher, even though the userprofile path is correctly defined in the ini.

PFF hangs a lot.

Submitted by Gabina on May 23, 2006 - 12:05pm

I don't have that problem with the non-portable Firefox. And I don't remember it happening when I first got Portable. Maybe it was a different version then. But now...sheesh.

I'll start to type a password and after three letters nothing shows up. I wait about 5-10 seconds and I can type again. Or I pull down a menu and wait...until it lets up and drops the menu. I can't even click anything during the hangs. The buttons won't highlight as the mouse goes over.

It started out being just an occasional hang but now it's really frequent. And annoying. I was trying to get out of the office one day. I just wanted to see if my post to a group had posted before I left. All I had to do was refresh the page, scroll down, and then scroll back up to log out. It hung after each little step. I refreshed. Then I had to wait to scroll. Then I had to wait to scroll back up. I had to wait before I could hit the link to sign off. Then I had to wait to hit the X to close the program.

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