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Firefox Portable

No update found

Submitted by herby on February 4, 2014 - 4:22am

I have problems with updating at least one PortableApp, i.e. Firefox. Firefox 26 is the current version, but my Portable Firefox is still in version 24 and the PortableApps Suite (11.2) doesn't find an update. Nevertheless other apps are updated.
Firefox is listed in the PortableApps menu, but not in "Help->About->Applications". Therefore is think it is not correct registered in the suite, perhaps because I moved an older single-installation (without suite) into the later installed suite-folder PortableApps\PortableApps.
How can I register it, so that updates will be found in installed.

[ REQUEST ] We need command action "FirefoxPortable.ini"

Submitted by DarKWinGTM on February 2, 2014 - 5:30am

[ REQUEST ] We need command action "FirefoxPortable.ini"

FirefoxPortable.ini : In this files we need hidden all informations i want remove this files and start "FirefoxPortable.exe" with command

FirefoxPortable.ini
[FirefoxPortable]
FirefoxDirectory=App\firefox
ProfileDirectory=Data\profile
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
PluginsDirectory=Data\plugins
FirefoxExecutable=firefox.exe
AdditionalParameters=-no-remote
LocalHomepage=
DisableSplashScreen=True
AllowMultipleInstances=True
DisableIntelligentStart=false
SkipCompregFix=false
RunLocally=false

[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:

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