The way I confirmed it is by going to the %LOCALUSER%\App Data\Mozilla\Firefox and deleting the pluginreg.dat, then launching PFF and surfing over to macromedia for it to try to load a flash website, resulting in the browser realizing it hasn't got flash, and writing a pluginreg.dat... which gets unfortunately written to the C: again.
Be absolutely sure of your directory structure, INI, that you have the plugins directory right and the proper plugin there. It works as expected for me here.
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I am having a problem with firfox, whenever I open it it comes with a message that says it can't connect to a website i've tried multiple websites and the same with each.
Bacon_King wrote:I am having a problem with firfox, whenever I open it it comes with a message that says it can't connect to a website i've tried multiple websites and the same with each.
If it's a problem with regular Firefox, this isn't the appropriate topic. If it's portable firefox... can a locally installed Firefox work on this machine? Are you behind a firewall?
This is interesting and I was hoping someone could help me out.
I have my .ini file setup as follows:
[PortableFirefox]
FirefoxDirectory=firefox
ProfileDirectory=profile
PluginsDirectory=plugins
AppDataDirectory=appdata
UserProfileDirectory=userprofile
AdditionalParameters=
AllowMultipleInstances=true
SkipChromeFix=false
SkipCompregFix=false
WaitForFirefox=true
FirefoxExecutable=firefox.exe
and am using Launcher 1.1.1.1 B4.
My issue is regarding plugins. As mentioned in a previous post in this thread, I wanted to be able to turn off certain plugins ( >( Damned PDFs ). I found the work-around to get the Plugin listing to show up, but when I check a plug-in off (thus telling Firefox to give the Download prompt instead of running the application) the option does not stay between computers. So when I load my PFF up on another machine, the plugins are all activated by default. Then when I get back to the original Machine, all plug-ins are active again.
Anyone else having this type of issue, or at least able to recreate the issue?
I don't know which workaround you are using, but you might try this extension: http://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... _download/ it seems to work pretty well with PFF. In a pinch it could probably be moddified to work for other filetypes
I have a quesiton though. my .ini actually looks identical to yours. I also have a folder(s) called appdata and one called userprofile in the portableFirefox folder (the same folder that contains the firefox folder and the profile folder). But Like Torpark mentioned earlier PFF still writes to the %userprofile%\applic~1\mozilla\ folder. Are my folders in the right place?
Ok... 5th time's a charm. There were a couple bugs that prevented the environment variables from working correctly in a couple instances. I think I've nailed them down. Here's beta 5:
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portab ... _beta5.zip
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That should pull the correct file. thanks critter. it works great now.
Yeah, that was me copying and pasting and forgetting to update the actual link.
Glad it's working as expected. If Sliver's testing works as well, I'll be releasing PFF 1.0.7 Final and and moving this launcher into my other 5 apps as well. I got 2 OpenOffice.org releases and an AbiWord release awaiting this new launcher
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keep up excellent work!
