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[Closed] Firefox does not work in wine past version 23.

Submitted by pathal on February 1, 2014 - 2:26pm

I have been running firefox portable on Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS \n \l and past version 23 (this includes esr 24 version) it does not work with wine. I have used both the system wine (i believe 1.4) and play on linux versions (1.5 - 1.7.11). Firefox launches either into an immediate crash or sometimes you get to click on it and then it crashes. Because firefox 23 and earlier seem to work fine but none after that I assume it is a firefox issue rather than wine. Because of the nature of portable apps it effects this windows version more than most.

Need to find out how to re-enable crash reporting, since FF portable crashing

Submitted by plek on February 1, 2014 - 6:38am

I understand crash reporting was disabled in April, because it could not be made properly portable. But, as one of the users who uses portable apps flat on a PC, I'd like to be able to re-enable the crash reporting. The directories are still being created/updated with today's date, but there's no crash report in them. I've looked around, but other than the note that crash reporting is disabled by default now, there's no indication on how to re-enable it (and the .ini has enabled=1).

Would it be possible to get some documentation on how to re-enable the crash reporting?

MP3 & Podcast Downloads

Submitted by Maineguy01 on December 22, 2013 - 1:46pm

Since updating Firefox Portable I can no longer download MP3 files. When I go to a podcast page and click the link to download it opens a new page and plays the file within Firefox using VLC. There is no way to right click on the link to download the file nor do anything other than play it within Firefox

I had this same problem with the non-portable version and according to Mozilla Support found out it has something to do with how Firefox 26 handles Windows XP which is my operating system. The instructions to fix the issue said to go to about:config and change the settings to false for:

[Solved] FF 25.0.1 Performance Is Very Bad - Regress To FF 24.0

Submitted by NotMine on November 18, 2013 - 4:35pm

I initially upgraded my primary FF Portable install. I noticed the performance was very bad when opening web sites, moving between pages of web sites, etc. I was astounded to see the same performance when accessing a local web server that is 1 Layer 2 switch hop away, inside my home, does not serve anyone else, and has an average CPU utilization of 0%.

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