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Submitted by MisterTroy on June 18, 2014 - 7:43pm

Hi all,

I've been using portable FF for quite a while now, and as of version 13, ran into a problem that prohibits me from upgrading. So I'm still stuck using version 12. Now some of the tools that I need to use at work don't work with versions that old.

I'm on Windows 7 x64, in a corporate environment, with an IT dept that doesn't really want to help me sort it out. Which is fair enough - they don't mind me running a portable version of the software, but don't support it - hence I'm here for some support.

How does Firefox ESR work exactly?

Submitted by korossa on June 17, 2014 - 4:03am

Hi everybody,

My context is :
- All computers work with Windows XP or 7 and IE (8 for Win XP and 10 for Win 7).
- We have an application who can only works with Firefox.
- It’s use HTML5.
- Installing Firefox is strictly forbidden

So I would like to know if Firefox portable may be the solution.
What is the way to make it possible?

Requirements:
- Firefox Portable ESR must be only use by this application and no other.
- No Firefox file’s or .exe’s must be appears in directory

Thanks for you response.

Firefox portable 64-bit and JPortable

Submitted by Kent.Coley on June 15, 2014 - 8:21pm

Might I ask if anyone has had problems with the Firefox 64-bit Nightly version not working with the 32-bit version of Jportable? I have installed both in a new folder, but the 64-bit Firefox does not seem to recognize JPortable, although it works correctly with the 32-bit version of Firefox Nightly. I saw that the 64-bit version of JPortable does not work with browsers, but I wasn't sure about the 32-bit version. Thank you for the help with this, and if I can provide any more information, please let me know.

Delete/cancel update before "restart to update"? [where is the file]

Submitted by MattPort on June 14, 2014 - 6:38pm

Hello, I am staying with fx 28 pending possible switch to palemoon/other, I have updates turned off. I have FX portable installed to my desktop for years. FX crashed and I impulsively decided to uncheck the "send report, page you were on" etc, restarted, and to my horror saw "update in progress" [it never did that with the send report turned on]. I closed the update window, shut the new firefox window [I knew something was up because it was asking permissions for some addons and looked different], then restarted firefox portable from my start menu shortcut. My old session came back.

Portable FF 30 crashes (cache problem)

Submitted by Burzemon on June 12, 2014 - 4:54pm

Portable FF 30 crashes (becomes a black window and error message appears) when browsing pages with lots of gif-animation or map sites with lots of photos (such as wikimapia.org, panoramio.com, maps.google.com).
This is closely connected with RAM-cache: if you open Task manager (ctrl+shift+esc), then open wikimapia.org, for example, and zoom in and out looking at some pictures, you can see how high memory usage is growing. On my PC it reaches about 2.3 - 2.5 Gb out of 4 Gb of RAM installed (Windows 7 32bit) and crashes.
This happens on clean Firefox Portable (no add-ons installed).

Tabs/windows not synced

Submitted by dodi on May 26, 2014 - 5:31pm

I switch between an installed version of Firefox, Firefox Portable and Firefox on Android. I set up Firefox Sync on all 3. Since I use Firefox Portable most of the time, I would like to have its tabs/windows and bookmarks synchronized to the installed and the Android version - that's what I understand Firefox Sync is supposed to do. But ...

- tabs/windows are not synced between portable and installed Firefox (although bookmarks are synced)
- bookmarks are not synced between portable and Android Firefox (although tabs/windows are synced)

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