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Extension Development

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 12, 2006 - 8:11am

I am currently trying to do extension development when I get the time and this tends to happen when I am at work where I use PFF. With Firefox 1.5 you can place a file inside the extensions folder in the format of "@" and inside that file place the directory path to the extension files. (ie: E:\projects\helloworld) and when you start up FF it loads it. However PFF doesn't seem to do this like Firefox 1.5 does? Mainly this just helps with not having to create a new xpi file and reinstall the extension every time a change is made to the extension code, you just restart FF.

right click menu options fail

Submitted by tarka on January 12, 2006 - 5:35am

Hi
I used pFF 107 and all appears fine
I upgraded to pFF 1.5 and I have found that a few right click menu options fail to do anything
right click - Open in new Window (nothing happens)
right click - Save link as (nothing happens)
right click - view image (nothing happens)

right click open in new tab works fine

PS also I have a large blank section at bottom of pFF 1.5 window about 2.5 cm and border grey - is that correct?

But Thanks for all your work, pOO and pFirefox 107 save me time

Syncing bookmarks pFF/FF

Submitted by Vaughn on January 11, 2006 - 3:41pm

Is there a way to synchronize changes to my bookmarks between the FF on my PC hard drive and the pFF on my USB drive? The initial import to pFF was fine but now that I have made changes in one or the other, I want to get them to be all the same. It has always been a hassle between my work FF bookmarks being different from my home FF bookmarks, so if there was a sync function in pFF, it would allow me to keep all three bookmark files the same.
Vaughn

PFF on 95

Submitted by justin on January 10, 2006 - 7:20pm

PFF does work on Windows 95 without any modifications right? Just wanted to know in case I go to a place with (gasp!) Windows 95 on the machines.

Eliminating pluginreg.dat & Mozilla folder on local machine

Submitted by doogie on January 10, 2006 - 1:27pm

Hi, I just started using PFF and it's great. Hopefully someone can help me

I wish to avoid the known issue mentioned in the README file, which states:
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LOCAL FILES CREATED - A directory (%userprofile%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox) is created on the local machine (if Firefox is not installed locally) and a pluginreg.dat file is created within it. This is a limitation of Firefox itself. If you set the UserProfile directory within the INI file, this will not happen.
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Which INI file are we talking about here? I assumed the PortableFirefox.ini file is being referenced, and I changed this line from

Installing extension in HD first then move whole portable ff to flash drive

Submitted by OP4 Latino on January 10, 2006 - 1:04am

Hi, I got a new flash drive and I want to install portable ff and this is what I thought to do

1. Download the zip from this site
2. Unzip it somewhere in HDD (C:)
3. Install extensions because HDD access is faster than Flash drive
4. Move the whole DIR to the flash drive

Can I do that? would it corrupt something?

Thanks

PFF issues on XP

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 9, 2006 - 5:17pm

I normally use PFF on a Win2000 machine at work (that does not have regular Firefox installed). It works fine. When I try to use PFF with my thumb drive on any XP machine (that has Firefox on them), it does not start up. When I installed I took the default directory structure and haven't renamed anything. Any suggestions? TIA

Shockwave plug-in blues

Submitted by roryks on January 7, 2006 - 9:14am

Off the bat, I assure you that I have followed the instructions carefully on installing the shockwave plugin...but still I am having no joy. At no point does it give me the option of choosing the browser. Now, shockwave is installed on my laptop but it is not recognized by firefox - only IE. I am running Windows XP.

Any suggestions?

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