Firefox Portable

I have long used FF at home, and so thought that portable FF would be the perfect thing for use at work!!

unfortunately I am not sure how the computers here are connected to the internet (we have many servers etc) and the only people who know are the IT helpdesk people (who would never help with FF)

autodetect settings gives no joy, and i remember having to call the helpdesk to have my computer connection settings changed when i started working.

is there any way for firefox to use the IE connection settings or for me to be able to see them, as they are hidden in the internet explorer options.

I know that GreaseMonkey is now supported by PortableFirefox but is it the same for MeasureIt ?

This is probably unsupported, but don't yell at me. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I can't get Java working on portable firefox

I already had portable firefox working nicely, downloaded Deer Park 1.6 Alpha 2, compressed all the dlls and exes with upx and put it into my /firefox/ directory (where the core firefox stuff is). Java applets do not load, but sun's website detects java. All my plugins are in he /plugins/ directory. On Deer park on my computer, Java Works, and on portable firefox 1.5 java works. But it's not working on Deer park.

Im using Portable Firefox 1.5, and when i load it from my thumbdrive it will forget the toolbar and extension settings i had set the previous time i opened it. Why is this happening?

I have just installed portable firefox to my usb, now I have a large grey zone at the bottom of the screen, about 15%, is this normal?

Everytime i try to deactivate xul cache it reenables automatically on restart. I cannot deactivate it, so everytime it creates the XUL.mfl of nearly 2 MB.
everytime i try to set the "nglayout.debug.disable_xul_cache" line to "true" (via about:config or editing prefs.js) pFF changes it back to false.
This used not to happen with 1.0.x
Any way to turn it off for good in 1.5?

My extensions in pff:

Hey i just love the portable stuff very, how you say, cool.

But why is firefox 1.5 not compressed?

Cheers

Since upgrading to Portable Firefox 1.5, I have not been able to open links in Firefox by clicking on them in Portable Thunderbird. How do I regain that functionality? Did I have an extension installed that I forgot I was using? Or do I need to do a quick registry hack to fix this problem?

I copied the 1.6a1 directory structure into the my Portable Firefox structure and aside from having to reset some extension settings everything seems to be working fine.

Will this cause any problems?

Am I truely running portably in this configuration or does this configuration cause some data to be written to other locations?

Thanks

In an effort to further integrate Portable Firefox with my OS theme, I made my own splashscreen by modifying the original located here:

/portablefirefoxcode/PortableFirefox.jpg.

Unfortunately it doesn't work. The new one is the same dimension, color depth, format, etc. as the original; but everytime I launch I see the original splashscreen.

I searched through all the directories and I couldn't find where in the heck it was still getting the original splashscreen from (It was deleted after I backed it up on the local HD).

Weird.

Anyone?