Firefox Portable

I am running PortableFirefox1.5 on a fairly old USB Memorystick. It works like a dream but when I shut down Firefox it can take up to 45 sec for all write activity to stop. Is there any way of reducing the writes required after Firefox is shutdown ? It becomes a bit of a nuisance when playing around with extensions/themes & having to stop & restart Firefox very often.

I have tried running Port. Firefox of both my Server Memory and from my USB Drive, and for some reason on the University Network my extensions are not thier, while if I use the Port. Firefox from the USB drive on anouther compter (Before and after) they are thier and work fine.
What can I do to avoid this, esp. since 90% of my computer time is on these computers?
Thank You
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Hello.

I use PFF in several places and extensions like "SwitchProxy" and "Yahoo! Mail Notifier" are really helpful.

I tried PFF 1.5 but i'm experiencing some problems with proxy handling.
"SwitchProxy" button acts a bit weird... there are no proxy names on it and there is a proxy password form constantly poping up! Sometimes it pops up 6 and 7 times while a webpage is loading and everytime "Yahoo! Mail Notifier" checks for new mail! First i thought it could be a problem of "SwitchProxy", maybe a compatibility problem between "SwitchProxy" and PFF 1.5. I disabled "SwitchProxy" and installed "xyzproxy". The problem persists. The proxy password hasn't changed recently and is correct.

Any idea for adding Openoffice,org 2 Plugin for Portable firefox?
which same as ie

Anyone have any tips to speed up Portable Firefox?

I've found 1.5 to be significantly faster (interface-wise as well as internet browsing speed), but does anyone have any notes? I was considering upping the cache, but that might actually make things slowing because you'd be adding all that cache data to the portable drive.

Is it okay to use the password manager inside portablefirefox when running it from a usb flash drive? I saw this under the copying local files section of this website:

"When you start Portable Firefox for the first time, be sure to turn off disk cache, password saving and history if you're using a non-hard drive portable device."

I also run an external password manager (KeePass).
Any help would be useful. Thanks.

Is there a way I could download a previous version of portable firefox? 1.5 doesn't currently work with my extensions and I'd like try some other versions. This is a constant problem w/firefox.
Thanks.

Great prog though. I'm about to move and am already dependant on it.

Thanks.

Hi,

looks like using ExecWait for Firefox 1.5 no longer works. It was ok with 1.0.7. I guess it must be starting up a child process and then quiting or something. Not sure of a way around this.

Bevan.

I tried to install greasesmonkey in Portable Firefox 1.5. I received an error message. Will Greasemonkey work with Portable Firefox? Any ideas or suggestions?

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Awsome job, great idea!

FYI:

I have found I can get the compressed portable_firefox_1.5_en-us.zip down from 6,643,139 bytes to 5,258,684 bytes using Tugzip, http://www.tugzip.com/ ,and 7z compression.

This is a significant savings especially for download bandwidth.

Results

portable_firefox_1.5_en-us.zip
Original (download from sourceforge) - 6,643,139 bytes
7z Ultra Compression - 5,258,684
7z & a Self-Extractor - 5,343,676 (79% current file size) 1.29MB saved

I would recommend considering use of 7z and self-extractor to lower your bandwidth overhead.