From nobody Sat Jan 22 16:36:49 2005 Received: (qmail 73547 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2005 21:36:15 -0000 Received: from ms-smtp-04-lbl.southeast.rr.com (HELO ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com) (24.25.9.103) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 22 Jan 2005 21:36:15 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.12] (cpe-024-211-175-213.nc.rr.com [24.211.175.213]) by ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j0MLWrCh001754 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:32:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41F2C67D.3070005@hopkins-family.org> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:32:45 -0500 From: Damon Hopkins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Macintosh/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: [PortableFirefox] Is this list active? X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:36:15 -0000 I'm interested in getting the OS X client working. Can I get the source for this project? I tried to CVS it but it doesn't appear to be in the repository yet. Thanks, Damon From nobody Fri Feb 25 08:31:29 2005 Received: (qmail 39627 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2005 13:30:52 -0000 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (64.233.170.194) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 25 Feb 2005 13:30:52 -0000 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id b11so527112rne for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:26:19 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Y4BnNiXjRlT+mQoUBfT5swNo/gnMMWZ3wf75gKlhg/w098RiP7zKV4W1+o4zZnHruzE/SsdvifKjRk1yGMDSGZh7T4Fmv7IJLd9Bh6nmRe+Z+WaCYDYv768PmmFtyxfV16zc7uO1UlIAgVAnnwQ1BmtgRMrhVl5o6F20+sY3JW4= Received: by 10.38.12.40 with SMTP id 40mr130005rnl; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:26:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.149.60 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:26:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:26:19 -0500 From: Scott Hamm To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [PortableFirefox] FireFox 1.0.1 X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Scott Hamm List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:30:53 -0000 When I upgraded from Firefox 1.0 to 1.0.1 and used portable firefox designed for 1.0, it crashed. Is it normal behavior? Or is there a workaround? -- Power to people, Linux is here. From nobody Fri Feb 25 08:59:50 2005 Received: (qmail 42856 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2005 13:59:06 -0000 Received: from bay104-f31.bay104.hotmail.com (HELO hotmail.com) (65.54.175.41) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 25 Feb 2005 13:59:06 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:54:01 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 193.13.60.222 by by104fd.bay104.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:53:48 GMT X-Originating-IP: [193.13.60.222] X-Originating-Email: [papptallrik@hotmail.com] X-Sender: papptallrik@hotmail.com From: =?iso-8859-1?B?TWF0dGlhcyBI5Gxsa3Zpc3Q=?= To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org Bcc: Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:53:48 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Feb 2005 13:54:01.0438 (UTC) FILETIME=[75E037E0:01C51B41] Subject: [PortableFirefox] Re: FireFox 1.0.1 X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:59:06 -0000 I also have this problem. I'd really love to see Portable FF 1.0.1. Just because of the much faster startup etc. Sometimes on USB 1.1 computers the startup takes quite some time and I belive FF 1.0.1 can improve this! /Mattias From nobody Thu Mar 3 13:24:39 2005 Received: (qmail 41473 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2005 12:35:52 -0000 Received: from mail.gmx.net (213.165.64.20) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 3 Mar 2005 12:35:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 2726 invoked by uid 0); 3 Mar 2005 12:30:38 -0000 Received: from 217.111.53.100 by www71.gmx.net with HTTP; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:30:38 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:30:38 +0100 (MET) From: "Markus Brandt" To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated: #782713 Message-ID: <29473.1109853038@www71.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.6 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:24:37 -0500 Subject: [PortableFirefox] Command Line Parameters for Portable FF X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:35:53 -0000 Hello John, I'm using your PortableFirefox and like it very much. Yesterday I tried to set up my Windows XP system to use PortableFirefox as my default broswer and realized that there is a problem concering the startup. PortableFirefox does not pass any command line parameters to firefox.exe. So I can't do something like "portablefirefox.exe -url http://mozdev.org". Is it possible to change this in a new version? I'm using this Registry file which reassings my private internet settings under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes - which I'm allowd to do so even not beeing an administrator. This tells the system (aka explorer) to not use the system default settings under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (resp. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes). Instead PortableFirefox is run from my USB-stick on drive E:. Because of the missing command line support I had to change portablefirefox.exe to firefox.exe with the -profile parameter. This works, but is possible unsave with extensions. ------------- snip ------------------------------------------------------- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.htm] @="FirefoxHTML" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.html] @="FirefoxHTML" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.shtml] @="FirefoxHTML" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.xht] @="FirefoxHTML" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.xhtml] @="FirefoxHTML" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CHROME] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CHROME\DefaultIcon] ; **** portablefirefox.exe does not have a secon icon for using with explorer. ; **** So we use firefox.exe instead. ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe,1" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe,1" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CHROME\SHELL] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CHROME\shell\open] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CHROME\shell\open\command] ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe -url \"%1\"" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe -profile \\firefox\\profile\\ -url \"%1\"" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\FirefoxHTML] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\FirefoxHTML\DefaultIcon] ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe,1" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe,1" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\FIREFOXHTML\SHELL] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\FirefoxHTML\shell\open] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\FirefoxHTML\shell\open\command] ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe -url \"%1\"" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe -profile \\firefox\\profile\\ -url \"%1\"" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\ftp\DefaultIcon] ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe,1" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe,1" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\FTP\SHELL\OPEN\COMMAND] ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe -url \"%1\"" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe -profile \\firefox\\profile\\ -url \"%1\"" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\gopher\DefaultIcon] ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe,1" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe,1" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\GOPHER\SHELL\OPEN\COMMAND] ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe -url \"%1\"" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe -profile \\firefox\\profile\\ -url \"%1\"" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\http\DefaultIcon] ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe,1" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe,1" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\HTTP\SHELL\OPEN\COMMAND] ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe -url \"%1\"" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe -profile \\firefox\\profile\\ -url \"%1\"" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\https\DefaultIcon] ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe,1" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe,1" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\HTTPS\SHELL\OPEN\COMMAND] ;@="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe -url \"%1\"" @="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe -profile \\firefox\\profile\\ -url \"%1\"" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\MIME\Database\Content Type\application/x-xpinstall;app=firefox] "Extension"=".xpi" ;####################################################################### [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla] "CurrentVersion"="1.7.5" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox] @="" "CurrentVersion"="1.0 (de-DE)" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox\1.0 (de-DE)] @="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox\1.0 (de-DE)\Main] "Install Directory"="e:\\firefox\\" ;"PathToExe"="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe" "PathToExe"="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox 1.0] "GeckoVer"="1.0.1" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox 1.0\bin] ;"PathToExe"="e:\\firefox\\portab~1.exe" "PathToExe"="e:\\firefox\\firefox.exe" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox 1.0\Extensions] "Components"="e:\\firefox\\Components" "Plugins"="e:\\firefox\\Plugins" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\mozilla.org] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\mozilla.org\Mozilla] "CurrentVersion"="1.7.5" ------------- snip ------------------------------------------------------- Best regards Markus Brandt From nobody Thu Mar 3 15:30:59 2005 Received: (qmail 11483 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2005 20:30:26 -0000 Received: from gw3.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.45) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 3 Mar 2005 20:30:26 -0000 Received: from mail8.webcontrolcenter.com [216.119.106.141] by GW3.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:24:26 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail8.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:36:11 -0700 Message-ID: <42275950.7010504@johnhaller.com> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:37:04 -0500 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] Command Line Parameters for Portable FF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:30:26 -0000 > I'm using your PortableFirefox and like it very much. > > Yesterday I tried to set up my Windows XP system to use PortableFirefox > as my default broswer and realized that there is a problem concering the > startup. > PortableFirefox does not pass any command line parameters to firefox.exe. > So I can't do something like "portablefirefox.exe -url http://mozdev.org". > > Is it possible to change this in a new version? As is stated on the project page, this is a known issue and there is not much interest in getting the commandline working, so it had been backburnered. You're *FAR* better off doing a standard install as your local brower or editing your profiles.ini file (in Documents and Settings) to reference the profile on your portable drive. Either will work better than trying to use the Portable Firefox Launcher as your default browser. That said, Portable Firefox 1.0.1, currently in beta, adds in the ability to pass URL parameters. PortableFirefox.exe expects one commandline parameter and, if found, will pass it to Firefox as a -url parameter. Doing this earlier has been difficult due to limitations in the NSIS language the launcher is written in. However, I was able to rework the launcher... just yesterday in fact... to work around some of the limitations. It is important to keep in mind, however, that using Portable Firefox as your default web browser is still not a supported configuration... even with the addition of commandline passing. Regards, John -- John T. Haller Personal Site: http://johnhaller.com/ Web Development: http://rareideas.com/ From nobody Fri Mar 4 03:30:00 2005 Received: (qmail 11334 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2005 08:29:27 -0000 Received: from gw3.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.45) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 4 Mar 2005 08:29:27 -0000 Received: from mail8.webcontrolcenter.com [216.119.106.141] by GW3.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:23:27 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail8.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:23:12 -0700 Message-ID: <42281B25.2050409@johnhaller.com> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 03:24:05 -0500 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [PortableFirefox] Portable Firefox 1.0.1 Beta Test X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:29:28 -0000 For those that are interested, here is the information on the 1.0.1 beta test that is going on now. If you can test, please do so and drop me a note with any issues you run into. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=81759&start=555#1279340 Regards, John -- John T. Haller Personal Site: http://johnhaller.com/ Web Development: http://rareideas.com/ From nobody Mon Jun 27 02:44:33 2005 Received: (qmail 96358 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2005 06:44:00 -0000 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (64.233.162.203) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 27 Jun 2005 06:44:00 -0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so162961nzo for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:34:19 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=Xua2WM/5PdQEILrkcMWCdt6pcQvAfUaR9S96qRnXi/lhcuTFQonTizZACR0pLgk7Pu0cor0hX/7k7AnBH57Nc5Q1INcT/rLgMz68TWiV0rSyFHlAtv0HFryIUHzebKJ78wctAeJ6KoReg2FnUvpvjHgkQUdwPO3a7ljgYlL6bXg= Received: by 10.36.120.13 with SMTP id s13mr3591381nzc; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:34:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.113.14 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:34:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:34:18 -0400 From: Matthew Weymar To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_2180_24343291.1119854058873" Subject: [PortableFirefox] a couple of questions X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: matthew@weymar.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:44:00 -0000 ------=_Part_2180_24343291.1119854058873 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I'm curious about running FF - and possibly Thunderbird, and even Sunbird -= =20 from a USB drive. I'm working primarily on a Mac now, however, and so Portable Firefox isn't= =20 going to do it for me, at least today - unless I can help you get an OSX=20 version working, which may be possible. In any case, I have a couple of questions: 1. I'm trying to figure out how big a deal drive wear is on a (4GB) USB=20 drive. I understand that one of your objectives with Portable Firefox is to reduce= =20 drive wear. Can I ask you to elaborate on your concern re drive wear? and/o= r=20 suggest ways I can think about this issue, and/or resources that will help= =20 me understand this (much!) better?... I've got a SanDisk Cruzer Mini 4GB USB drive. I have looked for the their= =20 MTBF, but it is not in their brochure. (FWIW, they provide a 2 year warranty on the drive - "so I got that goin'= =20 for me!" - And I've e-mailed them requesting the MTBF.) If I had the MTBF, at least I could make some assumptions and calculate the= =20 expected life of the drive - that would be as good / BAD! as my assumptions= =20 - but still ... a) You are addressing the software issue - "designing" - or better:=20 configuring the software to minimize use of the hardware; but what sort of= =20 relative use are we talking about, one installation to another? How much=20 drive use are you saving?... and b) I guess it would be helpful not only to know the MTBF of one's drive, bu= t=20 also to have it in the context of similar devices' MTBFs, i.e., regular=20 HDDs, for example. Do you happen to have this data?... 2. I'm a big fan of GreaseMonkey. Do you know why Portable Firefox breaks= =20 GM?... Here, btw, is a thread on which some of the GM folk were discussing this: http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-May/002374.html Many tks for your thoughts, Matthew ------=_Part_2180_24343291.1119854058873 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi,

I'm curious about running FF - and possibly Thunderbird, and even Sunbird -= from a USB drive.

I'm working primarily on a Mac now, however, and so Portable Firefox isn't going to do it for me, at least today - unless I can help you get an OSX version working, which may be possible.

In any case, I have a couple of questions:

1. I'm trying to figure out how big a deal drive wear is on a (4GB) USB dri= ve.

I understand that one of your objectives with Portable Firefox is to reduce drive wear. Can I ask you to elaborate on your concern re drive wear? and/or suggest ways I can think about this issue, and/or resources that will help me understand this (much!) better?...

I've got a SanDisk Cruzer Mini 4GB USB drive. I have looked for the their M= TBF, but it is not in their brochure. (FWIW, they provide a 2 year warranty on the drive - "so I got that goin' for me!" - And I've e-mailed them requesting the MTBF.)

If I had the MTBF, at least I could make some assumptions and calculate the expected life of the drive - that would be as good / BAD! as my assumptions - but still ...

a) You are addressing the software issue - "designing" - or bette= r: configuring the software to minimize use of the hardware; but what sort of relative use are we talking about, one installation to another? How much drive use a= re you saving?... and

b) I guess it would be helpful not only to know the MTBF of one's drive, but also to have it in the context of similar devices' MTBFs, i.e., regular HDDs, for example. Do you happen to have this data?...

2. I'm a big fan of GreaseMonkey. Do you know why Portable Firefox breaks GM?...

Here, btw, is a thread on which some of the GM folk were discussing this: http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2005-May/002374.html
Many tks for your thoughts,
Matthew
------=_Part_2180_24343291.1119854058873-- From nobody Mon Jun 27 10:58:36 2005 Received: (qmail 12715 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2005 23:45:41 -0000 Received: from gourmet.spamgourmet.com (216.218.230.146) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 24 Jun 2005 23:45:41 -0000 Received: from gourmet.spamgourmet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gourmet.spamgourmet.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5ONaiEO001203 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:36:44 -0700 Received: (from jqh1@localhost) by gourmet.spamgourmet.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j5ONahdx001192 for portablefirefox@mozdev.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:36:43 -0700 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.205]) by gourmet.spamgourmet.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5ONagZV001180 for <+portablefirefox+merryfellow+1d928b3f3f.portablefirefox#mozdev.org@spamgourmet.com>; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:36:42 -0700 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r35so692722rna for <+portablefirefox+merryfellow+1d928b3f3f.portablefirefox#mozdev.org@spamgourmet.com>; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:36:27 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=XjDJkh6PTZFMb1CBMh4LleQtYkvVrgP0FBFo5B4RVnYM/S8rvI6nrQBbMxGx8NKJv9koq2Z5Em5n8J+jg+viKp1H//5M+wzjpJ00l1BHquicSdkNKgHJ2K18qsWUSl6Lr9/yyr6CzfYwYT3+GlCWU3qCX7S/CLK/5dXNqBMlK6I= Received: by 10.38.86.8 with SMTP id j8mr52221rnb; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.59.9 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <66ec23f405062416366724f0c8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:36:27 -0700 From: portablefirefox.m.merryfellow@xoxy.net To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_4326_4989993.1119656187890" X-Spamgourmet: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:58:36 -0400 Subject: [PortableFirefox] possible fix for Grease Monkey issues X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: portablefirefox.m.merryfellow@xoxy.net List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:45:42 -0000 ------=_Part_4326_4989993.1119656187890 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4327_14300215.1119656187890" ------=_Part_4327_14300215.1119656187890 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I've really enjoyed using portable firefox. Thanks very much for making thi= s=20 available.=20 After installing GreaseMonkey 0.3.3 I had to manually edit the chrome.rdffile in order for firefox to start. This was apparently due to the baseurl starting with 'file:' in place of 'jar:'. I made the adjustments below in the attached file and it now works fine.= =20 thanks again, Mark **** =20 NextLine: FileWrite $R0 $4 FileRead $0 $4 IfErrors NoMoreLines ;=3D=3D we've reached the end of the file StrCpy $5 $4 34 StrCmp $5 ` c:baseURL=3D"jar:` NotYetJarInit StrCmp $5 ` c:baseURL=3D"file` NotYetFileInit Goto NextLine NotYetJarInit: StrCpy $R4 40 NotYetJar: IntOp $R4 $R4 + 1 StrCpy $7 $4 10 $R4 ; looking for the point to strip the extension path ;MessageBox MB_OK "$7" StrCmp $7 "extensions" PathFoundJar NotYetJar PathFoundJar: StrCpy $5 $4 "" $R4 StrCpy $4 ` c:baseURL=3D"jar:file:///$PROFILEDIRECTORY/$5` ; the path made= =20 ABSOLUTE GoTo NextLine NotYetFileInit: StrCpy $R4 40 NotYetFile: IntOp $R4 $R4 + 1 StrCpy $7 $4 10 $R4 ; looking for the point to strip the extension path ;MessageBox MB_OK "$7" StrCmp $7 "extensions" PathFoundFile NotYetFile PathFoundFile: StrCpy $5 $4 "" $R4 StrCpy $4 ` c:baseURL=3D"file:///$PROFILEDIRECTORY/$5` ; the path made=20 ABSOLUTE GoTo NextLine **** --=20 "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves=20 in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer ------=_Part_4327_14300215.1119656187890 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
I've really enjoyed using portable firefox. Thanks very much for makin= g this available.
 
After installing GreaseMonkey 0.3.3 I had to manually edit the chrome.= rdf file in order for firefox to start. This was apparently due to the base= url starting with 'file:' in place of 'jar:'.
 
I made the adjustments below in the attached file and it now work= s fine.
 
thanks again,
Mark
 
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 NextLine:
  FileWrite $R0 $4
  FileRead = $0 $4
  IfErrors NoMoreLines ;=3D=3D we've reached the end of = the file
  StrCpy $5 $4 34
  StrCmp $5 ` &nb= sp;            =      c:baseURL=3D"jar:` NotYetJarInit
 &nb= sp;StrCmp $5 `          &= nbsp;        c:baseURL=3D"file` Not= YetFileInit
  Goto NextLine

 NotYetJarInit:
  StrCpy $R4 40
 
 Not= YetJar:
  IntOp $R4 $R4 + 1
  StrCpy $7 $4 10 $R4= ; looking for the point to strip the extension path
  ;Messag= eBox MB_OK "$7"
  StrCmp $7 "extensions" P= athFoundJar NotYetJar
 
 PathFoundJar:
  StrCpy $5 $4 "" = $R4
  StrCpy $4 `       &nb= sp;           c:baseURL= =3D"jar:file:///$PROFILEDIRECTORY/$5` ; the path made ABSOLUTE
&nbs= p; GoTo NextLine

 NotYetFileInit:
  StrCpy $R4 40
 
 No= tYetFile:
  IntOp $R4 $R4 + 1
  StrCpy $7 $4 10 $= R4 ; looking for the point to strip the extension path
  ;Mess= ageBox MB_OK "$7"
  StrCmp $7 "extensions"= PathFoundFile NotYetFile
 
 PathFoundFile:
  StrCpy $5 $4 ""= $R4
  StrCpy $4 `       &n= bsp;           c:baseURL= =3D"file:///$PROFILEDIRECTORY= /$5` ; the path made ABSOLUTE
  GoTo NextLine

 
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"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves
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- Arthur Schopenhauer
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gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 27 Jun 2005 15:07:46 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:55:56 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:55:43 -0700 Message-ID: <42C013CD.8010505@johnhaller.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:57:17 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: matthew@weymar.com Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] a couple of questions References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:07:47 -0000 Howdy Matthew, I'll hit your points as you bring them up... > I'm curious about running FF - and possibly Thunderbird, and even > Sunbird - from a USB drive. > > I'm working primarily on a Mac now, however, and so Portable Firefox > isn't going to do it for me, at least today - unless I can help you get > an OSX version working, which may be possible. It is possible but there hasn't been much user interest and nearly zero developer interest. I do have one interested party I need to drop a note to. > In any case, I have a couple of questions: > > 1. I'm trying to figure out how big a deal drive wear is on a (4GB) USB > drive. > > I understand that one of your objectives with Portable Firefox is to > reduce drive wear. Can I ask you to elaborate on your concern re drive > wear? and/or suggest ways I can think about this issue, and/or resources > that will help me understand this (much!) better?... As has been discussed many times in the mozillaZine forums (the primary support arena) Portable Firefox is mainly intended for -- and primarily used on -- flash-based memory devices. Said devices have a finite lifespan measured in a number of writes. I've made changes to the default Firefox configuration to minimize these. It also speeds things up over USB 1.1 (which also applies to external hard drives). You're welcome to change any of the options within Options if you'd like. You'd need to remove the disable ZUL cache entry in prefs.js as well, if desired. > 2. I'm a big fan of GreaseMonkey. Do you know why Portable Firefox > breaks GM?... GreaseMonkey is known incompatible at present. This is mentioned on the project page under known issues. PFF only fixes the c:baseURL="jar: lines in chrome.rdf. GreaseMonkey uses c:baseURL="file: Someone sent a fix to this list (which I just approved for posting), but I believe it causes a programatic loop in certain instances. (I'd added a similar item into the launcher before). I may investigate this further when I have more time. Regards, John From nobody Mon Jun 27 11:11:50 2005 Received: (qmail 86553 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2005 15:11:18 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 27 Jun 2005 15:11:18 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:59:29 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:59:16 -0700 Message-ID: <42C014A1.7060804@johnhaller.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:00:49 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: portablefirefox.m.merryfellow@xoxy.net Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] possible fix for Grease Monkey issues References: <66ec23f405062416366724f0c8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <66ec23f405062416366724f0c8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:11:18 -0000 portablefirefox.m.merryfellow@xoxy.net wrote: > I've really enjoyed using portable firefox. Thanks very much for making > this available. > > After installing GreaseMonkey 0.3.3 I had to manually edit the > chrome.rdf file in order for firefox to start. This was apparently due > to the baseurl starting with 'file:' in place of 'jar:'. > > I made the adjustments below in the attached file and it now works fine. Mark, Thanks for the patch submission. I'd tried including this before but I think I'd come across at least one instance where there was a file: line with no extensions directory within it... which causes an endless loop. Anybody else come across this? I'm going to go through my old notes and see if I can find it. Regards, John From nobody Tue Jun 28 17:32:09 2005 Received: (qmail 85574 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2005 21:31:37 -0000 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (64.233.162.204) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 28 Jun 2005 21:31:37 -0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so407612nzo for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:21:47 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=fTvEzZdDYEo0BalKO4BYQZQ6gY1QbzrIPyo0h/TyIvp2kQeNbmvlbbSzXauniJjCHOMg9Wqy+OZla39fqCrXCKEQ14jTZmbDQrKZVmyEkC71KNJL3Ot1yUL3vrJZefvbPW1KKgF+b2bbBMc9ciO0ia7ygwrFu6nCU9FaJdLZg+4= Received: by 10.36.84.10 with SMTP id h10mr5007711nzb; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.113.14 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:21:24 -0400 From: Matthew Weymar To: "John T. Haller" Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] a couple of questions In-Reply-To: <42C013CD.8010505@johnhaller.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_3904_14045884.1119993684370" References: <42C013CD.8010505@johnhaller.com> Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: matthew@weymar.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:31:38 -0000 ------=_Part_3904_14045884.1119993684370 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Tks for your reply, John. More below... On 6/27/05, John T. Haller wrote: > It is possible but there hasn't been much user interest and nearly zero > developer interest. I do have one interested party I need to drop a=20 > note to. Not sure how much help I could be with this, but I'd be happy to contribut= e=20 - at a minimum by testing, etc.... =20 > > In any case, I have a couple of questions: > > > > 1. I'm trying to figure out how big a deal drive wear is on a (4GB) USB= =20 > > drive. > > > > I understand that one of your objectives with Portable Firefox is to > > reduce drive wear. Can I ask you to elaborate on your concern re drive > > wear? and/or suggest ways I can think about this issue, and/or resource= s=20 >=20 > > that will help me understand this (much!) better?... >=20 > As has been discussed many times in the mozillaZine forums (the primary > support arena) Portable Firefox is mainly intended for -- and primarily > used on -- flash-based memory devices. Said devices have a finite=20 > lifespan measured in a number of writes. I've made changes to the > default Firefox configuration to minimize these. It also speeds things > up over USB 1.1 (which also applies to external hard drives). You're > welcome to change any of the options within Options if you'd like. > You'd need to remove the disable ZUL cache entry in prefs.js as well, if > desired. OK, tks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keydrive#Strengths_and_weaknesses addresses=20 some of my concerns / curiosity in the following: "In normal use, mid-range flash drives currently on the market will support= =20 several million cycles, although write operations will gradually slow as th= e=20 device ages. This should be a consideration when using a flash drive as a= =20 hard drive to run application software or an operating system." (This comment is followed by an oblique reference to the Portable Firefox= =20 project: "To address this (and the space limitations common on flash drives= )=20 some developers have produced versions of operating systems (such as Linux) or commonplace applications (such as the Mozilla Firefox) designed to run from flash drives." Perhaps this ref. should be less=20 oblique!) In any case, this info is only so helpful, as I am a bit stuck as to how to= =20 estimate the number of "cycles," or "write cycles" various setups would=20 generate. I notice, e.g., that you disable Browser History, and Disk Cache. I'm=20 wondering how many cycles this will save me, for example? Obviously it=20 depends on my browsing habits, which I guess I can measure / estimate using= =20 my browser history(!) Should I assume 1 write to History, and 1 write to Cache =3D 2 cycles per U= RL=20 in my history?... (Not sure how cache works exactly - nor revisiting 'sites= ,=20 nor 'sites that update automatically.) Ditto cookies. These seem a bit harder to measure, but by the same token,= =20 probably less of an issue. Maybe worth keeping???... Ultimately, I would be curious to know: How much money am I saving here?...= =20 Or is that not the right rubric at all?... I take it that the point is to= =20 prolong the life of my device - so I don't have to go out buy another one -= =20 and so I'm trying to figure out by how long I will be able to prolong it by= =20 making certain sacrifices, obviously so that I can figure out which=20 sacrifices I do and don't want to make. Assuming I'm not the *only* one - though there may not be many - who is=20 similarly curious, and similarly clueless, it occurs to me that you might= =20 want to add something on this subject to your Portable Firefox page. E.g., "For more on the limited lifespans of USB key drives, check out=20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keydrive#Strengths_and_weaknesses," or=20 paraphrase this yourself. Ideally, you might provide some estimates as to the number of write cycles= =20 one would save by using Portable Firefox based on various assumptions. > 2. I'm a big fan of GreaseMonkey. Do you know why Portable Firefox > > breaks GM?... >=20 > GreaseMonkey is known incompatible at present. This is mentioned on the= =20 > project page under known issues. PFF only fixes the c:baseURL=3D"jar: > lines in chrome.rdf. GreaseMonkey uses c:baseURL=3D"file: Someone sent a > fix to this list (which I just approved for posting),=20 Logged and noted. Thanks! And pls do let me know if you, or anyone else decides to pick up the OSX=20 torch. Regards, Matthew but I believe it=20 > causes a programatic loop in certain instances. (I'd added a similar > item into the launcher before). I may investigate this further when I > have more time. >=20 > Regards, > John >=20 ------=_Part_3904_14045884.1119993684370 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
Tks for your reply, John. More below...
On 6/27/05, John T. Haller <mozdev@johnhaller.com> wrote:<= /div>
It is possible bu= t there hasn't been much user interest and nearly zero
developer interes= t.  I do have one interested party I need to drop a
note to.
 
Not sure how much help I could be with this, but I'd be happy to contr= ibute - at a minimum by testing, etc....
 
> In any case,= I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1. I'm trying to figure out = how big a deal drive wear is on a (4GB) USB
> drive.
>
> I understand that one of your objectives wi= th Portable Firefox is to
> reduce drive wear. Can I ask you to elabo= rate on your concern re drive
> wear? and/or suggest ways I can think= about this issue, and/or resources
> that will help me understand this (much!) better?...

As has= been discussed many times in the mozillaZine forums (the primary
suppor= t arena) Portable Firefox is mainly intended for -- and primarily
used o= n -- flash-based memory devices.  Said devices have a finite
lifespan measured in a number of writes.  I've made changes t= o the
default Firefox configuration to minimize these.  It als= o speeds things
up over USB 1.1 (which also applies to external hard dri= ves).  You're
welcome to change any of the options within Options if you'd like.
You'd= need to remove the disable ZUL cache entry in prefs.js as well, if
desi= red.
 
OK, tks.

= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keydrive#Strengths_and_weaknesses addresse= s some of my concerns / curiosity in the following:

"In normal use, mid-range flash drives currently on the market will support several million cycles, although write operations will gradually slow as the device ages. This should be a consideration when using a flash drive as a hard drive to run application software or an operating system."

(This comment is followed by an oblique reference to the Portable Firefox project: "To address this (and the space limitations common on flash drives) some developers have produced versions of operating systems (such as Linux) or commonpla= ce applications (such as the Mozilla Firefox) designed to run from flash drives." Perhaps this = ref. should be less oblique!)

In any case, this info is only so helpful, as I am a bit stuck as to how to estimate the number of "cycles," or "write cycles&quo= t; various setups would generate.

I notice, e.g., that you disable Browser History, and Disk Cache. I'm wondering how many cycles this will save me, for example? Obviously it depends on my browsing habits, which I guess I can measure / estimate using my browser history(!)

Should I assume 1 write to History, and 1 write to Cache =3D 2 cycles per URL in my history?... (Not sure how cache works exactly - nor revisiting 'sites, nor 'sites that update automatically.)

Ditto cookies. These seem a bit harder to measure, but by the same token, p= robably less of an issue. Maybe worth keeping???...

Ultimately, I would be curious to know: How much money am I saving here?... Or is that not the right rubric at all?... I take it that the point is to prolong the life of my device - so I don't have to go out buy another one - and so I'm trying to figure out by how long I will be able to prolong it by making certain sacrifices, obviously so that I can figure out which sacrifices I do and don't want to make.

Assuming I'm not the *only* one - though there may not be many - who is similarly curious, and similarly clueless, it occurs to me that you might want to add something on this subject to your Portable Firefox page. E.g., "For more on the limited lifespans of USB key drives, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keydrive#Strengths_and_weaknesses," = or paraphrase this yourself.

Ideally, you might provide some estimates as to the number of write cycles one would save by using Portable Firefox based on various assumptions.

> 2. I'm= a big fan of GreaseMonkey. Do you know why Portable Firefox
> breaks= GM?...

GreaseMonkey is known incompatible at present.  This is m= entioned on the
project page under known issues.  PFF only fixes the c:baseURL=3D&= quot;jar:
lines in chrome.rdf.  GreaseMonkey uses c:baseURL=3D= "file:  Someone sent a
fix to this list (which I just app= roved for posting),

Logged and noted. Thanks!

And pls do let me know if you, or anyone else decides to pick up the OSX t= orch.

Regards,
Matthew

but I believe= it
causes a programatic loop in certain instances. (I'd added a similaritem into the launcher before).  I may investigate this further = when I
have more time.

Regards,
John
------=_Part_3904_14045884.1119993684370-- From nobody Tue Jun 28 18:09:45 2005 Received: (qmail 93213 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2005 22:09:10 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 28 Jun 2005 22:09:10 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:57:14 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:57:01 -0700 Message-ID: <42C1C806.8040409@johnhaller.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:58:30 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: matthew@weymar.com Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] a couple of questions References: <42C013CD.8010505@johnhaller.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:09:10 -0000 Matthew Weymar wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keydrive#Strengths_and_weaknesses addresses > some of my concerns / curiosity in the following: > > "In normal use, mid-range flash drives currently on the market will > support several million cycles, although write operations will gradually > slow as the device ages. This should be a consideration when using a > flash drive as a hard drive to run application software or an operating > system." > > (This comment is followed by an oblique reference to the Portable > Firefox project: "To address this (and the space limitations common on > flash drives) some developers have produced versions of operating > systems (such as Linux ) or > commonplace applications (such as the Mozilla Firefox > ) designed to run from > flash drives." Perhaps this ref. should be less oblique!) Portable Firefox is mentioned within the Wikipedia Firefox entry (thanks to a PFF fan). > In any case, this info is only so helpful, as I am a bit stuck as to how > to estimate the number of "cycles," or "write cycles" various setups > would generate. > > I notice, e.g., that you disable Browser History, and Disk Cache. I'm > wondering how many cycles this will save me, for example? Obviously it > depends on my browsing habits, which I guess I can measure / estimate > using my browser history(!) > > Should I assume 1 write to History, and 1 write to Cache = 2 cycles per > URL in my history?... (Not sure how cache works exactly - nor revisiting > 'sites, nor 'sites that update automatically.) Nope. Very different. Here are some considerations in terms of write cycles... 1. AFAIK, when taking about write cycles, we're talking per sector. So, a file taking up 8 sectors would cause one write per sector to 8 different sectors. 2. Some keys distribute writes evenly over the entire area, some do not (and none seem to mention this in their specs). The ones that distribute will last longer. The ones that do not will overuse certain sectors eventually. 3. As for history, each image, css, html, js, etc file will be written to your cache. Each will cause 1 write per sector over however many sectors they take up. So, you can see lots of writes per webpage visit. 4. Disabling things like history keeps the size of the install of PFF down (which is more important to some than others) 5. Disabling things like history, cookies, etc actually makes PFF faster over USB 1.1 (since writing and reading is so slow) > Ultimately, I would be curious to know: How much money am I saving > here?... Or is that not the right rubric at all?... I take it that the > point is to prolong the life of my device - so I don't have to go out > buy another one - and so I'm trying to figure out by how long I will be > able to prolong it by making certain sacrifices, obviously so that I can > figure out which sacrifices I do and don't want to make. In the end, it's up to you. And it is kinda a coin flip in some ways. Personally, I think it makes more sense to keep the settings. > Assuming I'm not the *only* one - though there may not be many - who is > similarly curious, and similarly clueless, it occurs to me that you > might want to add something on this subject to your Portable Firefox > page . E.g., "For > more on the limited lifespans of USB key drives, check out > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keydrive#Strengths_and_weaknesses," or > paraphrase this yourself. Actually, you're the only one to ever ask in detail. Most folks are aware of the limited life span of flash memory. And those that aren't never ask past "why is this disabled". Regards, John From nobody Wed Jun 29 16:23:16 2005 Received: (qmail 37584 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2005 20:01:08 -0000 Received: from web26006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (217.12.10.217) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 29 Jun 2005 20:01:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 9497 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Jun 2005 19:51:19 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=V4pEoC+sH/Rdme1iIlzV6MmgYOSO4ru6ZMhMP4BqJV0S15uD+I7k05mDMb0SyK3nAzc3hNZ+SUrtfm8s4CA3k86bfCcTQeTSvprlAwyFpaWjT4juL5yQAdmjIRqbMQlyuRvucL9GLTeXA01MJYcrW/04+B9r55726L5SABTeSLU= ; Message-ID: <20050629195119.9495.qmail@web26006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Received: from [81.134.107.48] by web26006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:51:19 BST Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:51:19 +0100 (BST) From: abc def To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:23:15 -0400 Subject: [PortableFirefox] Question about Portable Firefox X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:01:09 -0000 Hi Is it possible to access the cookies and temporary internet files using windows explorer? They appear to be encrypted when I look for them? Regards David ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com From nobody Wed Jun 29 16:47:31 2005 Received: (qmail 48404 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2005 20:46:56 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 29 Jun 2005 20:46:56 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:34:58 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:34:43 -0700 Message-ID: <42C30653.9040809@johnhaller.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:36:35 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: abc def Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] Question about Portable Firefox References: <20050629195119.9495.qmail@web26006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050629195119.9495.qmail@web26006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:46:58 -0000 abc def wrote: > Hi > Is it possible to access the cookies and temporary > internet files using windows explorer? > They appear to be encrypted when I look for them? By default, there are no cookies or temporary internet files created by Portable Firefox as they are turned off. If you turn them on, then they are just as accessible as they are in regular Firefox. Regards, John From nobody Fri Jul 15 16:37:02 2005 Received: (qmail 28007 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2005 20:36:29 -0000 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (64.233.184.199) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 15 Jul 2005 20:36:29 -0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i5so683828wra for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:26:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Dy4ociJxAtz+tc5apzfIgTxd5ZooY9Szyf8h7QQL4TYBG8wHrQyynxBSfVz9N+QLHUjt/hNoP0lUHB54Ucmj6lD4DUP+mzonzIfyiXlPPtXFk1DNDr8Ax6cMfnxp/i67erzHy70uqOeg2DWWfsFQs8jHkLLiL7YzAWQKiuiEp/I= Received: by 10.54.28.42 with SMTP id b42mr1236154wrb; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.14.75 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <66ecec1605071513262d30ec18@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:26:03 -0400 From: Jeff Schallenberg To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [PortableFirefox] USB .htm file as home page? X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jeff Schallenberg List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:36:29 -0000 Greetings, John Haller and Portable Firefox users everywhere! I have installed PFF on a USB drive, and it works fine, EXCEPT... I would like it to open a .htm file (nextaction.htm, see http://trimpath.com/project/wiki/NextAction) as its home page. If I Open the file from the File menu, the drive letter is included. If I then carry the drive to another machine where the drive letter is different, of course PFF gives an error message when it starts up. Is there any way to include the startup file in the PORTABLEFIREFOX.INI fil= e? Failing that, is there a way of passing the filename "nextaction.htm" as a -url parameter in a batch file ? - Jeff --=20 Jeff Schallenberg Saint Lambert, Qu=E9bec jeffschallenberg.blogspot.com From nobody Sat Jul 16 18:49:07 2005 Received: (qmail 14433 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2005 22:48:34 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 16 Jul 2005 22:48:34 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:37:26 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:37:11 -0700 Message-ID: <42D98C30.7050902@johnhaller.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 18:37:36 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Schallenberg Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] USB .htm file as home page? References: <66ecec1605071513262d30ec18@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <66ecec1605071513262d30ec18@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 22:48:35 -0000 Jeff Schallenberg wrote: > Greetings, John Haller and Portable Firefox users everywhere! > > I have installed PFF on a USB drive, and it works fine, EXCEPT... > I would like it to open a .htm file (nextaction.htm, see > http://trimpath.com/project/wiki/NextAction) > as its home page. If I Open the file from the File menu, the drive > letter is included. If I then carry the drive to another machine where > the drive letter is different, of course PFF gives an error message > when it starts up. > > Is there any way to include the startup file in the PORTABLEFIREFOX.INI file? > > Failing that, is there a way of passing the filename "nextaction.htm" > as a -url parameter in a batch file ? I think there's a way to do it with either file:/// or chrome:// or resource:// It may require some messing with to figure out where you could place it and have it picked up. As for -url... I'm pretty sure it needs the full path, so you'd be out of luck there. If you do nail it down, please let us know. Regards, John From nobody Sun Jul 17 12:55:23 2005 Received: (qmail 17212 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2005 23:16:21 -0000 Received: from web60917.mail.yahoo.com (209.73.178.245) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 16 Jul 2005 23:16:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 34607 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Jul 2005 23:05:53 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=BjyzzXZBi3hwBmI0QZzEsxRwLmMQ8lQo/LftgdB5exdq5jkdOnDWp9Y7M0p+tIUb9WHwSyO62/HqG2UZ+5/kjmTZlAjXy6ER4J/cvovsQdq/6+4sMfzmx3tjo38HMw9Rlwy0VbZe9TDBvWr7mOSb+g0zFhSSZH5kJfMeINWZuEE= ; Message-ID: <20050716230553.34605.qmail@web60917.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [4.229.42.73] by web60917.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:05:53 PDT Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:05:53 -0700 (PDT) From: mind rehab To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-2094119414-1121555153=:34188" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 12:55:22 -0400 Subject: [PortableFirefox] Windows 98 X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:16:21 -0000 --0-2094119414-1121555153=:34188 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This program has worked great from a Lexar flashdrive on a computer running Windows XP. But I've tried 2 different computers running Windows 98, and although program list shows that Firefox is running, nothing happens in terms of the program loading and displaying a browser window. I have the directory structure set up just as the default configuration, which works fine on Win XP. Do I need to change something to get it to work in Win 98? Thanks, Mind __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-2094119414-1121555153=:34188 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
This program has worked great from a Lexar flashdrive on a computer running Windows XP.
But I've tried 2 different computers running Windows 98, and although program list shows that Firefox is running, nothing happens in terms of the program loading and displaying a browser window. I have the directory structure set up just as the default configuration, which works fine on Win XP. Do I need to change something to get it to work in Win 98?
 
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http://mail.yahoo.com --0-2094119414-1121555153=:34188-- From nobody Sun Jul 17 13:14:33 2005 Received: (qmail 98954 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2005 17:14:01 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 17 Jul 2005 17:14:01 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:12:57 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:12:43 -0700 Message-ID: <42DA9196.2010702@johnhaller.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:12:54 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mind rehab Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] Windows 98 References: <20050716230553.34605.qmail@web60917.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050716230553.34605.qmail@web60917.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:14:01 -0000 mind rehab wrote: > This program has worked great from a Lexar flashdrive on a computer > running Windows XP. > But I've tried 2 different computers running Windows 98, and although > program list shows that Firefox is running, nothing happens in terms of > the program loading and displaying a browser window. I have the > directory structure set up just as the default configuration, which > works fine on Win XP. Do I need to change something to get it to work in > Win 98? Portable Firefox 1.0.5 will work under all versions of Windows. You do need to make sure that Windows 95 and Windows 98 are fully patched, though, as this can cause the issue you describe. Try downloading PFF 1.0.5 locally (to the hard drive) and running it from there. If it works, it could be a USB driver issue (not uncommon in Win98). If it doesn't work, then you should fire up Windows Update and make sure you've applied all patches. You didn't mention if you're using Win98 SE or not. The original release of Win98 isn't fully supported with Firefox (even the regular one) but you can have it running fine by applying the following patches: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/windows_95/ Regards, John From nobody Mon Jul 18 10:16:26 2005 Received: (qmail 76007 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2005 14:12:54 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 18 Jul 2005 14:12:54 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:11:43 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:11:28 -0700 Message-ID: <42DBB89B.3010805@johnhaller.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:11:39 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Schallenberg Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] USB .htm file as home page? References: <66ecec1605071513262d30ec18@mail.gmail.com> <42D98C30.7050902@johnhaller.com> <66ecec1605071806206d3e5a3a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <66ecec1605071806206d3e5a3a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:12:55 -0000 Jeff Schallenberg wrote: > Well, I found a work-around that works for the two XP machines that I > primarily use with Portable Firefox. > > I found this in an entry on WindowsAnnoyances.org from 2002: > http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-024 > > By using \windows\system32\diskmgmt.msc, you can change the drive > letter used by windows for the removable drive in that particular > machine. > > So, on my "big" desktop machine, where it thinks the removable drive > is G:\, my bookmarks and homepage work fine. > > But on my laptop, with fewer ports, it called my USB drive F:\, so I > just had to open diskmgmt.msc and tell it to call the USB drive "G:\" > to match the other PC. > > Now the bookmarks and homepage for Portable Firefox work fine on both PCs. > > But when I carry the thumb drive to another PC, i will have the same problem... Did you try playing with some of the chrome:// and resource:// protocols at all? That would be the ideal solution. If this would require an update to the launcher, it may not be too likely as a local homepage option has only been asked for twice in the year that Portable Firefox has been in existance. And the first time, the asker ended up just dropping the file on their web server. But, being the hacking type, I created a quick and dirty batch launcher that will let you do it here: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/#local_homepage Try the chrome:// and resource:// protocols to see if you can get those working. If not, you can use the batch file. Regards, John From nobody Tue Jul 19 07:12:48 2005 Received: (qmail 75423 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2005 11:12:16 -0000 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (64.233.184.192) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 19 Jul 2005 11:12:16 -0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i17so110329wra for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 04:10:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Nbm6u5H3R4BqZcs2GTVrnbq35bw4EH+JPSmj2X7IdWyuzg3aTEuNivht6/mLxVS4XtWOjF2OYio9inOOv+jsQ4880u/XbFK8U5EoIqB6Y5Vs0iGDdPPaeC8CM1kLWw/0XstqBze60BhMmvKxNHdpq/xAeK6ImZhfVAHVi42XO5U= Received: by 10.54.137.17 with SMTP id k17mr695746wrd; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 04:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.14.75 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 04:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <66ecec16050719041019d558d9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:10:26 -0400 From: Jeff Schallenberg To: "John T. Haller" Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] USB .htm file as home page? In-Reply-To: <42DBB89B.3010805@johnhaller.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <66ecec1605071513262d30ec18@mail.gmail.com> <42D98C30.7050902@johnhaller.com> <66ecec1605071806206d3e5a3a@mail.gmail.com> <42DBB89B.3010805@johnhaller.com> Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jeff Schallenberg List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:12:16 -0000 I appreciate your suggestions, John. Would you mind giving me a hint what you are talking about? What is the chrome:// protocol? What is the resource:// protocol? Are they related to firefox? HTTP? How could they help me run Portable Firefox with a local file by default? I am not a Mozilla adept, you see :-) - Jeff jeffschallenberg.blogspot.com From nobody Tue Jul 19 10:50:31 2005 Received: (qmail 23599 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2005 14:49:45 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 19 Jul 2005 14:49:45 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:48:24 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:48:12 -0700 Message-ID: <42DD12B5.1020900@johnhaller.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:48:21 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Schallenberg Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] USB .htm file as home page? References: <66ecec1605071513262d30ec18@mail.gmail.com> <42D98C30.7050902@johnhaller.com> <66ecec1605071806206d3e5a3a@mail.gmail.com> <42DBB89B.3010805@johnhaller.com> <66ecec16050719041019d558d9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <66ecec16050719041019d558d9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:49:57 -0000 Jeff Schallenberg wrote: > I appreciate your suggestions, John. > > Would you mind giving me a hint what you are talking about? > > What is the chrome:// protocol? > > What is the resource:// protocol? > > Are they related to firefox? HTTP? > > How could they help me run Portable Firefox with a local file by default? > > I am not a Mozilla adept, you see :-) Google, my friend, Google... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chrome+url+firefox The basics are in the first two links. That's about all I can offer you, though. You're probably better off just using that batch file I added. Regards, John From nobody Tue Jul 19 12:40:05 2005 Received: (qmail 53556 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2005 16:38:22 -0000 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (64.233.184.197) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 19 Jul 2005 16:38:22 -0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i1so1255143wra for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:37:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=O8Xiu4mckV4+8rsWHv0X5E7jjTibxeT89chEZb6E8Mgsu1LMPTSL8Ek4q7+s7lsX71ypDtpKQum2etwum0iKmU+JSTOf30EhyQK+Bq2XcfelPVf4UgFIKjYU1AwJvZazvymcDR4P/m4SFjKhwfI7UCEhle3J36EZtHGsW/UHBIo= Received: by 10.54.137.14 with SMTP id k14mr797771wrd; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:37:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.14.75 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <66ecec16050719093710ac237d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:37:23 -0400 From: Jeff Schallenberg To: "John T. Haller" Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] USB .htm file as home page? In-Reply-To: <42DD12B5.1020900@johnhaller.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <66ecec1605071513262d30ec18@mail.gmail.com> <42D98C30.7050902@johnhaller.com> <66ecec1605071806206d3e5a3a@mail.gmail.com> <42DBB89B.3010805@johnhaller.com> <66ecec16050719041019d558d9@mail.gmail.com> <42DD12B5.1020900@johnhaller.com> Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jeff Schallenberg List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:38:25 -0000 Thanks for the links, John. I tried some of the chrome url examples - they work in PFF, but why would anyone need them? What are they good for? For example, chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksManager.xul opens the bookmarks manager in a new tab. Why is this useful? I still don't get what chrome has to do with opening a file on the USB driv= e This one looked promising: chrome://browser/content/openLocation.xul but, not only is it just a duplication of the file/open dialog, - it doesn't work :-( And neither of the batch files on your site work, either. I am using the default directory structure. I changed the filename from homepage.html to nextaction.htm, but all I get is a DOS window that opens for about 250ms, then nada... Ah, well. PFF works, and my shortcuts work, and PFF knows where to find its homepage file, so I'm OK. - Jeff From nobody Tue Jul 19 15:44:50 2005 Received: (qmail 2280 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2005 19:43:49 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 19 Jul 2005 19:43:49 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:42:31 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:42:19 -0700 Message-ID: <42DD57A3.9040906@johnhaller.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:42:27 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Schallenberg Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] USB .htm file as home page? References: <66ecec1605071513262d30ec18@mail.gmail.com> <42D98C30.7050902@johnhaller.com> <66ecec1605071806206d3e5a3a@mail.gmail.com> <42DBB89B.3010805@johnhaller.com> <66ecec16050719041019d558d9@mail.gmail.com> <42DD12B5.1020900@johnhaller.com> <66ecec16050719093710ac237d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <66ecec16050719093710ac237d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:43:49 -0000 Jeff Schallenberg wrote: > Thanks for the links, John. > > I tried some of the chrome url examples - they work in PFF, but why > would anyone need them? What are they good for? For example, > chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksManager.xul > opens the bookmarks manager in a new tab. Why is this useful? > > I still don't get what chrome has to do with opening a file on the USB drive > > This one looked promising: > chrome://browser/content/openLocation.xul > but, not only is it just a duplication of the file/open dialog, - it > doesn't work :-( > > And neither of the batch files on your site work, either. I am using > the default directory structure. I changed the filename from > homepage.html to nextaction.htm, but all I get is a DOS window that > opens for about 250ms, then nada... > > Ah, well. PFF works, and my shortcuts work, and PFF knows where to > find its homepage file, so I'm OK. As I said, you'd need to mess with them and lookup stuff and try stuff. I cannot offer you more assistance as I do not have the time. The batch file will work with a standard directory structure install. There is only ONE batch file that does what I mentioned: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/#local_homepage It must be placed next to your PortableFirefox.exe file in the default directory structure (no variations) and the homepage must be titled homepage.html and be within the profile directory. If it isn't working, then you must have altered the directory structure or are using a different html file. (Or you are using Windows 98/Me which isn't really supported by this type of batch file.) Other than that, you're on your own with the batch files. Hope that helps. Regards, John From nobody Wed Jul 20 11:28:26 2005 Received: (qmail 10386 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2005 07:21:13 -0000 Received: from server2.namsa.nato.int (208.161.248.27) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 20 Jul 2005 07:21:13 -0000 Received: from mailsrv01.namsa.lu (unverified [172.20.51.128]) by server2.namsa.nato.int (Clearswift SMTPRS 5.1.4) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:20:45 +0200 Received: by mailsrv01.namsa.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id <3J5X17S0>; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:22:04 +0200 Message-ID: <835D4BE7DAEDCA4DBDB8F7236E131CFF0E3931@NAMSAMAIL01.ad.namsa.lu> From: VANESSE Daniel To: "'portablefirefox@mozdev.org'" Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:21:07 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C58CFB.98D354D6" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:28:25 -0400 Subject: [PortableFirefox] How to install Adobe Acrobat Reader and SVG Viewer plugin X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:21:13 -0000 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C58CFB.98D354D6 Content-Type: text/plain Some documents that we distribute on DVD are in .pdf or .svg format. How can I install Adobe Acrobat Reader 6 (or later) and Adobe SVG Viewer 3 plugin in Portable Firefix? Regards ------_=_NextPart_001_01C58CFB.98D354D6 Content-Type: text/html Message

Some documents that we distribute on DVD are in .pdf or .svg format. How can I install Adobe Acrobat Reader 6 (or later) and Adobe SVG Viewer 3 plugin in Portable Firefix?
 
Regards
------_=_NextPart_001_01C58CFB.98D354D6-- From nobody Wed Jul 20 11:39:12 2005 Received: (qmail 96344 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2005 15:38:40 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 20 Jul 2005 15:38:40 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:37:22 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:37:10 -0700 Message-ID: <42DE6FAC.7040907@johnhaller.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:37:16 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: VANESSE Daniel Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] How to install Adobe Acrobat Reader and SVG Viewer plugin References: <835D4BE7DAEDCA4DBDB8F7236E131CFF0E3931@NAMSAMAIL01.ad.namsa.lu> In-Reply-To: <835D4BE7DAEDCA4DBDB8F7236E131CFF0E3931@NAMSAMAIL01.ad.namsa.lu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'portablefirefox@mozdev.org'" X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 15:38:40 -0000 VANESSE Daniel wrote: > Some documents that we distribute on DVD are in .pdf or .svg format. How > can I install Adobe Acrobat Reader 6 (or later) and Adobe SVG Viewer 3 > plugin in Portable Firefix? You cannot install it by default. You might be able to include the plugin and all the required DLLs (normally in Windows/System32) in the plugin directory. Both may still require the registry, though, in which case the above would fail. You'd be on your own figuring out what DLLs you'd need. Also, this would be a violation of your license agreement with both Adobe Reader and the Adobe SVG Viewer. As a general rule, most plugins cannot be included with Portable Firefox. Even shockwave, for example, won't work unless it is installed on the local machine. My hack of adding the DLL to Portable Firefox just allows it to be able to access that local install. Regards, John From nobody Wed Jul 20 12:05:47 2005 Received: (qmail 4174 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2005 16:05:14 -0000 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (64.233.184.205) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 20 Jul 2005 16:05:14 -0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 63so372704wri for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:04:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=XYyIcpdlV72Oa891wVVLNuAQqAYSezMCWhMvz+NPWurXRd6Xc5S6Zb+RFsgjkmM2xrkVPlBfLz3A7Mk9xrJr9oVTx56C1xuViOJBmzdxe3gUYldeneN0KAKYiCk8dCilNqaNGwp55RKZ3hsfwBNWxk3mKm9r/Gb4DjXSCiHCHFI= Received: by 10.54.55.69 with SMTP id d69mr71693wra; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.20.72 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <96f674ba05072009045ebad60e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:04:48 -0400 From: Fred Calm To: PortableFirefox mailing list Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] How to install Adobe Acrobat Reader and SVG Viewer plugin In-Reply-To: <42DE6FAC.7040907@johnhaller.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_153_26183422.1121875488511" References: <835D4BE7DAEDCA4DBDB8F7236E131CFF0E3931@NAMSAMAIL01.ad.namsa.lu> <42DE6FAC.7040907@johnhaller.com> Cc: X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Fred Calm List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:05:15 -0000 ------=_Part_153_26183422.1121875488511 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I second that emotion. I use PFF on a thumb drive at various public=20 libraries and love it. The local machines all have Acrobat, etc. installed= =20 and PFF finds them when needed just fine. If I run into trouble, I can=20 always use IE installed on the PC, but that hasn't happened yet.=20 The problem of the shifting vaiable drive letters is vexing; it keeps my=20 autorun.inf from working smoothly. The shortcuts and paths always mention a= =20 specific letter, which may or may not be the same at the next joint.=20 Launching PFF usually seems to fix the shortcuts and what not; I'm guessing= =20 John's launcher handles that. Haven't got AI Roboform Portable to work smoothly with PFF from the thumb= =20 drive; RF couldn't find a supported browser. Haven't tried it since=20 upgrading to PFF 1.0.5 and installing the new Roboform extension, so it=20 might be fixed in the meantime. Thanks, John, for all your work and a really sweet FF distro. On 7/20/05, John T. Haller wrote: >=20 > ... > As a general rule, most plugins cannot be included with Portable > Firefox. Even shockwave, for example, won't work unless it is installed > on the local machine. My hack of adding the DLL to Portable Firefox > just allows it to be able to access that local install. >=20 > Regards, > John >=20 > ------=_Part_153_26183422.1121875488511 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I second that emotion. I use PFF on a thumb drive at various public libraries and love it. The local machines all have Acrobat, etc. installed and PFF finds them when needed just fine. If I run into trouble, I can always use IE installed on the PC, but that hasn't happened yet.

The problem of the shifting vaiable drive letters is vexing; it keeps my autorun.inf from working smoothly. The shortcuts and paths always mention a specific letter, which may or may not be the same at the next joint. Launching PFF usually seems to fix the shortcuts and what not; I'm guessing John's launcher handles that.

Haven't got AI Roboform Portable to work smoothly with PFF from the thumb drive; RF couldn't find a supported browser. Haven't tried it since upgrading to PFF 1.0.5 and installing the new Roboform extension, so it might be fixed in the meantime.

Thanks, John, for all your work and a really sweet FF distro.

</Fred>



On 7/20/05, John T. Haller <moz= dev@johnhaller.com> wrote:
...
As a general rule, most plugins cannot be included with Portable
= Firefox.  Even shockwave, for example, won't work unless it is in= stalled
on the local machine.  My hack of adding the DLL to Po= rtable Firefox
just allows it to be able to access that local install.

Regards,
= John


------=_Part_153_26183422.1121875488511-- From nobody Wed Jul 20 12:35:20 2005 Received: (qmail 11800 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2005 16:34:48 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 20 Jul 2005 16:34:48 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:33:39 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:33:27 -0700 Message-ID: <42DE7CDC.7040204@johnhaller.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:33:32 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PortableFirefox mailing list Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] How to install Adobe Acrobat Reader and SVG Viewer plugin References: <835D4BE7DAEDCA4DBDB8F7236E131CFF0E3931@NAMSAMAIL01.ad.namsa.lu> <42DE6FAC.7040907@johnhaller.com> <96f674ba05072009045ebad60e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <96f674ba05072009045ebad60e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:34:49 -0000 Fred Calm wrote: > The problem of the shifting vaiable drive letters is vexing; it keeps my > autorun.inf from working smoothly. The shortcuts and paths always > mention a specific letter, which may or may not be the same at the next > joint. Launching PFF usually seems to fix the shortcuts and what not; > I'm guessing John's launcher handles that. An autorun doesn't need drive letters in it. Check out the autorun.inf I make available on the Portable Firefox page download. > Haven't got AI Roboform Portable to work smoothly with PFF from the > thumb drive; RF couldn't find a supported browser. Haven't tried it > since upgrading to PFF 1.0.5 and installing the new Roboform extension, > so it might be fixed in the meantime. I haven't tried it in a while, but it did work when I first tried it (circa PFF 1.0.2 time). > Thanks, John, for all your work and a really sweet FF distro. You're welcome. Regards, John From nobody Thu Jul 21 01:11:09 2005 Received: (qmail 41175 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2005 05:10:37 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 21 Jul 2005 05:10:37 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:09:27 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:09:13 -0700 Message-ID: <42DF2E15.9070905@johnhaller.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:09:41 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [PortableFirefox] Portable Firefox 1.0.6 Beta Released X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:10:37 -0000 I've just released Portable Firefox 1.0.6. This release updates to Firefox 1.0.6 and adds in icons for the Firefox windows in Windows 95/98/Me. It does not yet include the updated PFF launcher that stores the Application Data plugin registry within Portable Firefox. That feature needs a bit more testing. It will be included in a future release. As with 1.0.5, it includes support for a split directory structure, allowing you to have a PortableApps directory with Apps and Data subdirectories, making it much easier to backup your data. (I'll be adding this setup into all 5 of my apps and my 2 yet-to-be-released ones) as well as support for the Mozilla Calendar extension, allowing it to be used as you move between computers and drive letters. Download Portable Firefox 1.0.6 Beta: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/ The Portable Firefox Launcher 1.1.0 is also available: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/#launcher Please post any issues you find to this thread... especially comments about the new features. Thanks! John From nobody Thu Jul 21 05:27:24 2005 Received: (qmail 79187 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2005 09:26:51 -0000 Received: from server2.namsa.nato.int (208.161.248.27) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 21 Jul 2005 09:26:51 -0000 Received: from mailsrv01.namsa.lu (unverified [172.20.51.128]) by server2.namsa.nato.int (Clearswift SMTPRS 5.1.4) with ESMTP id for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:26:24 +0200 Received: by mailsrv01.namsa.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id <3J5XFQK3>; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:27:44 +0200 Message-ID: <835D4BE7DAEDCA4DBDB8F7236E131CFF0E3934@NAMSAMAIL01.ad.namsa.lu> From: VANESSE Daniel To: "'portablefirefox@mozdev.org'" Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:26:49 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C58DD6.529C917C" Subject: [PortableFirefox] Can not access the DOM of a SVG document from JavaScript X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:26:51 -0000 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C58DD6.529C917C Content-Type: text/plain Thanks to all for you quick answer about the installation of the Adobe plug-in. Now, another concern about SVG documents: Context: - A SVG document is embedded into a HTML page using Problem: The drawing properly displays but the JavaScript statement "svgDoc = document.MySvg.getSVGDocument()" reports the error "getSVGDocument() is not a function" FYI: -SVG Viewer 3 from Adobe installed on the PC - plugin files installed in PortableFirefox - the DOM inspector does not allow me to go deeper than the tag - the script works in IE6 Any idea ??? Regards Daniel ------_=_NextPart_001_01C58DD6.529C917C Content-Type: text/html Message
Thanks to all for you quick answer about the installation of the Adobe plug-in.
Now, another concern about SVG documents:
 
Context:
- A SVG document is embedded into a HTML page using
      <EMBED  name="MySvg"  src="Something.svg"  type="image/svg" ...>
 
Problem:
The drawing properly displays but the JavaScript statement "svgDoc = document.MySvg.getSVGDocument()" reports the error "getSVGDocument() is not a function" 
 
FYI:
-SVG Viewer 3 from Adobe installed on the PC
- plugin files installed in PortableFirefox
- the DOM inspector does not allow me to go deeper than the <EMBED> tag
- the script works in IE6
 
Any idea ???
 
Regards
 
Daniel
------_=_NextPart_001_01C58DD6.529C917C-- From nobody Thu Jul 21 09:52:55 2005 Received: (qmail 27917 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2005 13:52:20 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.188) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 21 Jul 2005 13:52:20 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:51:08 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:50:56 -0700 Message-ID: <42DFA85B.40101@johnhaller.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:51:23 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: VANESSE Daniel Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] Can not access the DOM of a SVG document from JavaScript References: <835D4BE7DAEDCA4DBDB8F7236E131CFF0E3934@NAMSAMAIL01.ad.namsa.lu> In-Reply-To: <835D4BE7DAEDCA4DBDB8F7236E131CFF0E3934@NAMSAMAIL01.ad.namsa.lu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'portablefirefox@mozdev.org'" X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:52:23 -0000 VANESSE Daniel wrote: > Thanks to all for you quick answer about the installation of the Adobe > plug-in. > Now, another concern about SVG documents: > > _Context:_ > - A SVG document is embedded into a HTML page using > > > _Problem:_ > The drawing properly displays but the JavaScript statement "svgDoc = > document.MySvg.getSVGDocument()" reports the error "getSVGDocument() is > not a function" > > _FYI:_ > -SVG Viewer 3 from Adobe installed on the PC > - plugin files installed in PortableFirefox > - the DOM inspector does not allow me to go deeper than the tag > - the script works in IE6 Does it work in regular FF (ie a local install)? If not, you're out of luck (and this wouldn't be the place to ask for more info). Portable FF is a repackaging of regular FF. If it doesn't work in FF it won't work here. This mailing list is only for Portable FF issues, not general FF ones. From nobody Wed Aug 17 16:23:35 2005 Received: (qmail 69936 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2005 18:40:29 -0000 Received: from mail.magnet.fsu.edu (146.201.250.9) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 17 Aug 2005 18:40:29 -0000 Received: from graphics2 (b1-dav-88.magnet.fsu.edu [146.201.224.88]) by mail.magnet.fsu.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id j7HIdxXa020994 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:39:59 -0400 Message-ID: <000d01c5a35b$149eccb0$58e0c992@davidson.magnet.fsu.edu> From: "Richard Ludlow" To: Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:39:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000A_01C5A339.8A7E8D20" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-NHMFL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-MCPCheck: MCP-Clean, MCP-Checker (score=0, required 1) X-NHMFL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5.535, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -3.30, AWL 0.28, BAYES_00 -2.60, HTML_50_60 0.09, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00) X-MailScanner-From: ludlow@magnet.fsu.edu X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:23:22 -0400 Subject: [PortableFirefox] Popcap.com? X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:40:29 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C5A339.8A7E8D20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have the lates version of portable firefox and cannot seem to find a = way to play any of the online games at popcap.com. Is it possible to = play them with portable firefox or not, and if so what have I missed. = (plugin, etc.) Thanks. ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C5A339.8A7E8D20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I have the lates version of portable = firefox and=20 cannot seem to find a way to play any of the online games at popcap.com. = Is it=20 possible to play them with portable firefox or not, and if so what have = I=20 missed. (plugin, etc.)
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------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C5A339.8A7E8D20-- From nobody Wed Aug 17 16:38:50 2005 Received: (qmail 92765 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2005 20:33:56 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 17 Aug 2005 20:33:56 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:31:55 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:31:22 -0700 Message-ID: <43039EC5.1050906@johnhaller.com> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:32:05 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Ludlow Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] Popcap.com? References: <000d01c5a35b$149eccb0$58e0c992@davidson.magnet.fsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <000d01c5a35b$149eccb0$58e0c992@davidson.magnet.fsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:33:57 -0000 Richard Ludlow wrote: > I have the lates version of portable firefox and cannot seem to find a > way to play any of the online games at popcap.com. Is it possible to > play them with portable firefox or not, and if so what have I missed. > (plugin, etc.) You'll need the Flash and Shockwave plugins to get them working. It's mentioned under Additional Options toward the bottom of the page. http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/ From nobody Thu Aug 18 12:48:22 2005 Received: (qmail 92701 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2005 16:47:50 -0000 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (64.233.184.207) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 18 Aug 2005 16:47:50 -0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so460695wra for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:47:24 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:to:date:mime-version:subject:message-id:priority:x-mailer:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-description:from; b=UkY7woA0NK2jbwVrjXRuUkNpgp68sF4l/ZvTRqVkR2MUN7SN10n26tzp0jEqHRzJ55clY17zwoXsbdNCvnWxZ3jpINmkVxj8OlgUm8r0ZuSj178hsgjRZCH4IHv9DEZ2uMuOtQHzVhDnDnlsvF1HhsOCevWn3trVcd+uFaHvcoI= Received: by 10.54.107.20 with SMTP id f20mr1290241wrc; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from ?129.7.63.171? ([129.7.63.171]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 26sm5245406wrl.2005.08.18.09.47.24; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:47:24 -0700 (PDT) To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:47:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <43047548.32311.462FCC9@j44xm.gmail.com> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.30 public beta 1) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body From: J44xm Subject: [PortableFirefox] Why is 1.06 still a beta? X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:47:50 -0000 Why is 1.06 still a beta version? Are there plans to make a final version? Is something still be worked on? Sorry for the barrage, but we's curious! J44xm From nobody Thu Aug 18 13:00:34 2005 Received: (qmail 94724 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2005 17:00:01 -0000 Received: from gw5.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.187) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 18 Aug 2005 17:00:01 -0000 Received: from MAIL31 [216.119.106.158] by GW5.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:57:55 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:57:21 -0700 Message-ID: <4304BE33.3090303@johnhaller.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:58:27 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: J44xm Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] Why is 1.06 still a beta? References: <43047548.32311.462FCC9@j44xm.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43047548.32311.462FCC9@j44xm.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:00:02 -0000 J44xm wrote: > Why is 1.06 still a beta version? Are there plans to make a final version? Is > something still be worked on? Sorry for the barrage, but we's curious! It just is. I didn't want to call it final until I get the fixes in for the local directory creation and the non-jar file resource issue (which kills extensions like GreaseMonkey and CustomizeGoogle). From nobody Tue Sep 20 18:48:58 2005 Received: (qmail 66697 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2005 22:48:25 -0000 Received: from gw8.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.133) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 20 Sep 2005 22:48:25 -0000 Received: from mail31.webcontrolcenter.com [216.119.106.158] by gw8.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:47:36 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:47:00 -0700 Message-ID: <4330915E.1070107@johnhaller.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:46:54 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [PortableFirefox] Portable Firefox Launcher 1.1.1 Beta 2 Released - Testers Needed X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:48:25 -0000 I've just released a new version of the Portable Firefox launcher. This one adds in a couple new features to the release version: - support for extensions using file: added (CustomizeGoogle, GreaseMonkey, etc) - added in directories, ini options and environment calls so Firefox now uses included directories for pluginregistry, etc... meaning that no files will be left behind on PCs that Portable Firefox is run on. The new INI options are: AppDataDirectory=appdata UserProfileDirectory=userprofile Those are the defaults. The directories are included in the ZIP and will be included in the next PFF release. Even with these new features, the launcher can still be dropped into an existing install... you just won't get the added AppData and UserProfile features without creating those directories. If you use a custom INI, though, this new launcher probably won't work without updating the INI and adding the directories in. http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/portable_firefox_launcher_1.1.1_beta2.zip Please give the new features a try and let me know how it works for you. I'll be adding these features in to all 4 Mozilla apps and Portable OpenOffice.org as well. Regards, John From nobody Fri Sep 23 20:53:18 2005 Received: (qmail 79138 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2005 00:52:46 -0000 Received: from smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.198.202) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 24 Sep 2005 00:52:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 43694 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2005 00:52:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.201?) (sikuor9788@sbcglobal.net@69.228.190.217 with plain) by smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Sep 2005 00:52:14 -0000 Message-ID: <4334A33D.3090000@alestron.com> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:52:13 -0700 From: dp deng User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [PortableFirefox] Re: portable firefox not running on Fujitsu laptop X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:52:46 -0000 > Hi., > > I put portable firefox (1.0.6) and portable thunderbird (1.0.6) on my > portable hard drive. They work pretty well on my laptop and some other > desktops. Then I went on a trip beginning this Monday, so I took our > demo laptop with me. The demo laptop is a Fujitsu Nseries Lifebook > running XP. To my surprise, the portable Thunderbird works fine, but > portable firefox doesn't run. There's a process in the "task manager", > but there's no UI. > > I also upgrade it to 1.0.7 yesterday, it still doesn't work. The > firefox process is showing up in the "task manager", but the UI is > nowhere to be found. > > I got back to the office and put the hard drive on my own laptop (sony > vaio), the firefox (1.0.7) works just fine fine. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > dp > From nobody Sat Sep 24 13:51:03 2005 Received: (qmail 36153 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2005 17:50:30 -0000 Received: from gw8.webcontrolcenter.com (216.119.106.133) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 24 Sep 2005 17:50:30 -0000 Received: from mail31.webcontrolcenter.com [216.119.106.158] by gw8.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:49:09 -0700 Received: from cpe-70-95-239-173.san.res.rr.com [70.95.239.173] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:48:35 -0700 Message-ID: <43359171.6000608@johnhaller.com> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:48:33 -0700 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dp deng Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] Re: portable firefox not running on Fujitsu laptop References: <4334A33D.3090000@alestron.com> In-Reply-To: <4334A33D.3090000@alestron.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:50:31 -0000 dp deng wrote: > I put portable firefox (1.0.6) and portable thunderbird (1.0.6) on my > portable hard drive. They work pretty well on my laptop and some other > desktops. Then I went on a trip beginning this Monday, so I took our > demo laptop with me. The demo laptop is a Fujitsu Nseries Lifebook > running XP. To my surprise, the portable Thunderbird works fine, but > portable firefox doesn't run. There's a process in the "task manager", > but there's no UI. > > I also upgrade it to 1.0.7 yesterday, it still doesn't work. The > firefox process is showing up in the "task manager", but the UI is > nowhere to be found. > > I got back to the office and put the hard drive on my own laptop (sony > vaio), the firefox (1.0.7) works just fine fine. Most likely, it is an incompatible extension. If the drive letter happens to stay the same between the places that it does work and changes on that demo laptop, that would be the issue. There are a number of extensions that are currently incompatible with Portable Firefox including GreaseMonkey, CustomizeGoogle and similar extensions that save files within your profile. A later release of the Portable Firefox Launcher will fix these incompatibilities. There is a beta launcher that fixes them described here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1757821 Extensions are your most likely culprit. Regards, John From nobody Mon Sep 26 15:02:58 2005 Received: (qmail 30726 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2005 19:02:15 -0000 Received: from smtp102.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.198.201) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 26 Sep 2005 19:02:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 80525 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2005 19:01:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (sikuor9788@sbcglobal.net@69.228.190.217 with plain) by smtp102.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 2005 19:01:48 -0000 Message-ID: <4338459A.3020001@alestron.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:01:46 -0700 From: dp deng User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John T. Haller" Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] Re: portable firefox not running on Fujitsu laptop References: <4334A33D.3090000@alestron.com> <43359171.6000608@johnhaller.com> In-Reply-To: <43359171.6000608@johnhaller.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:02:15 -0000 Hi., Thanks. I tried the new launcher, it seemed to have worked. Then my laptop died on Saturday. I'm glad that I have moved most of my mail off of the laptop, but I still lost some other files. dp John T. Haller wrote: > dp deng wrote: > >> I put portable firefox (1.0.6) and portable thunderbird (1.0.6) on my >> portable hard drive. They work pretty well on my laptop and some >> other desktops. Then I went on a trip beginning this Monday, so I >> took our demo laptop with me. The demo laptop is a Fujitsu Nseries >> Lifebook running XP. To my surprise, the portable Thunderbird works >> fine, but portable firefox doesn't run. There's a process in the >> "task manager", but there's no UI. >> >> I also upgrade it to 1.0.7 yesterday, it still doesn't work. The >> firefox process is showing up in the "task manager", but the UI is >> nowhere to be found. >> >> I got back to the office and put the hard drive on my own laptop >> (sony vaio), the firefox (1.0.7) works just fine fine. > > > Most likely, it is an incompatible extension. If the drive letter > happens to stay the same between the places that it does work and > changes on that demo laptop, that would be the issue. There are a > number of extensions that are currently incompatible with Portable > Firefox including GreaseMonkey, CustomizeGoogle and similar extensions > that save files within your profile. A later release of the Portable > Firefox Launcher will fix these incompatibilities. There is a beta > launcher that fixes them described here: > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1757821 > > Extensions are your most likely culprit. > > Regards, > John > From nobody Wed Oct 5 09:44:24 2005 Received: (qmail 92878 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2005 13:43:51 -0000 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (64.233.184.207) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 5 Oct 2005 13:43:51 -0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so65415wra for ; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:43:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=b/NsDk58qm49B9XfA9O4Z5nFKkwyFDO+fmIl61zSRoakeZ2jK2VLJaei7jMhlrgOfcAJvZFiGpcrt/6ROKYAQBgko/TN38H3FhrcynKJfFpZkMPoneN57zgXggaqw5uHdiV5pFSF0i8li/jAxCCVjz0jntbSdt1XQ7YBJeM8Z2g= Received: by 10.54.61.9 with SMTP id j9mr378868wra; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.79.20 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 06:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5c4c375e0510050643s7fa9110dtfb7d2bc71211388c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:43:24 -0400 From: Matt Thorne To: portablefirefox@mozdev.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_13055_32240562.1128519804982" Subject: [PortableFirefox] Good Morning East Coasters X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matt Thorne List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:43:51 -0000 ------=_Part_13055_32240562.1128519804982 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, My name is Matthew Thorne, I was wondering if when recompiling FF (as I haven't done it yet) is there the ability to not have it leave data in %userprofile%\applic~1\mozilla\ but instead have it pull the data from the thumb drive it self? thanks -=3DMatt=3D- ------=_Part_13055_32240562.1128519804982 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
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------=_Part_13055_32240562.1128519804982-- From nobody Wed Oct 5 11:05:13 2005 Received: (qmail 14013 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2005 15:04:40 -0000 Received: from gw8.webcontrolcenter.com (63.134.207.37) by mozdev.org with SMTP; 5 Oct 2005 15:04:40 -0000 Received: from mail31.webcontrolcenter.com [216.119.106.158] by gw8.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 08:03:26 -0700 Received: from user-0cdf4eg.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.145.208] by mail31.webcontrolcenter.com with SMTP; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 08:02:48 -0700 Message-ID: <4343EB11.7080709@johnhaller.com> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:02:41 -0400 From: "John T. Haller" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Thorne Subject: Re: [PortableFirefox] Good Morning East Coasters References: <5c4c375e0510050643s7fa9110dtfb7d2bc71211388c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5c4c375e0510050643s7fa9110dtfb7d2bc71211388c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-BeenThere: portablefirefox@mozdev.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:04:41 -0000 Matt Thorne wrote: > Hi, My name is Matthew Thorne, I was wondering if when recompiling FF > (as I haven't done it yet) is there the ability to not have it leave > data in > %userprofile%\applic~1\mozilla\ > but instead have it pull the data from the thumb drive it self? Matt, No recompilation necessary. It's an option in the upcoming launcher to pass in a %USERPROFILE% variable of a directory on the thumb drive. The 1.1.1 Beta 4 launcher has it here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1778317#1778317 Regards, John