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Should updates for Firefox 35.0.1 be installed in Firefox Portable Edition?

Submitted by notfinished on February 24, 2015 - 12:19pm

The operating system for my desktop is XP. My browser is Firefox Portable Edition with Google as the search engine. Recently I got a popup in the middle of the screen ask me if I wanted to download Security and Stability updates for Firefox 35.0.1. I do not know the relationship between Firefox 35.0.1 and Firefox Portable Edition. Should I install the updates for Firefox 35.0.1 on my Firefox Portable Edition from the popup?
If not, how do I prevent this popup from appearing over and over again ?

Setting FFP as DefaultBrowser but use roaming Profile (Win 7)

Submitted by yves030 on February 24, 2015 - 3:52am

Hi,

I´ve read hundred of Posts about setting FFP as DefaultBrowser,
or using "Special" ProfileManagers for FFP... but I can´t find
a solution for this problem:

When I open a URL from my eMail by clicking a link, I managed
to set FFP as default Browser, so this is fine... but...:

When I have FFP already opened, I get a new Tab, which is fine.
But, when I do not have an instance of FFP running and click the
URL Link, FFP is started, but with the profile from the host pc
located at the default folder C:\Users\Yves\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Open new URL with command line (FFP is already opened)

Submitted by emptyb on February 21, 2015 - 5:25pm

Is it possible to open new tab with specified URL using pure command line? I tried:
FirefoxPortable.exe -new-tab "http://address"
It works when FFP is closed, but when it's already opened with other tabs I get this error:

Firefox is already running, but is not responding. The old Firefox process must be closed to open a new window.

Is there any way around that?

My setup:
- FF 28 as default browser
- FFP 35 as secondary browser
using -no-remote on FFP to run both together

missing firefox.exe key in registry (after FF portable installation)

Submitted by odklizec on February 20, 2015 - 3:52am

Hi,

It seems the FF portable setup does not add "FIREFOX.EXE" key to win. registry? The key is expected to be here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\FIREFOX.EXE
with its "Default" string value pointing to FF path (including exe e.g. C:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\firefox.exe) and "Path" string, pointing to FF app directory (e.g. C:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox).

Some apps use this key for detection of FF installation. Thanks.

XPCOM error tyring to start Firefox Portable after booting from Make pe 3 - 48 boot disk

Submitted by Sherro on February 15, 2015 - 11:22pm

I have built an emergency recovery boot disk using MAKE PE3 - 48 and P Start to enable the use of portable programs after booting into the recovery environment. I have successfully used Firefox Portable up to and including version 28.

All Portable versions since then up to the latest Version 35 will not start. All display the error that they cannot load XPCOM.

These same Firefox portable versions will, however, start in the normal Windows 7 Ultimate environment on all of my computers, however, in the MAKE PE 3 environment, on the same device, they will not.

Setting FirefoxPortable as default browser

Submitted by GeekGirlInFurs on February 11, 2015 - 8:08pm

Hi. I would like to set Firefox Portable as my default browser. I've found a few different references to methods for ding this, but they are either no longer available or they simply don't work.

I've also looked in at the FAQ here and searched the forum. Unless I'm overlooking something, the info available is how to set Firefox as the default but not FirefoxPortable.

Can this be done?

I'm running both Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 and would like to set things up for both.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance!

Amazon login says I need to enable cookies, but they are enabled

Submitted by pwilliamson19 on February 11, 2015 - 8:48am

Reinstalled Ffox portable 35 form scratch, because it wasn't working properly. Now everything else works but I can't log in to my Amazon account. Says Cookies need to be enabled. But cookies are enabled. Works OK in Chrome, so not an Amazon problem. Running Windows 8. I've tried clearing cookies, clearing cache, clearing history but still can't log in.

Distribute Firefox Portable without installer

Submitted by vovair on February 11, 2015 - 6:45am

We want to distribute out product with Portable Mozilla bundled into it. Our goal is to install portable Firefox without installer. We do not want to change any sources (Firefox or portableapps) We just want to take folder with installed portable Firefox, zip it and unzip during our installation. So we have several questions. Can we perform such technique to integrate portable Firefox with our product? What about license agreement? Which restrictions will we have?

Profile Management Revisited

Submitted by GDVX_111 on February 9, 2015 - 3:39pm

I've had some problems on a couple of my systems running Portable FF, in which profiles apparently got corrupted. The major symptoms included incomplete display of page elements on certain web pages, limited or selective functioning of Javascript (worked on some websites, though not on others), inability to sign in to webmail-based email accounts. Trying to troubleshoot this proved tedious and not very productive. As a temporary workaround, I used this

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilistportable/?src=api

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