[PortableFirefox] Command Line Parameters for Portable FF

[John T. Haller]

> 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

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John T. Haller

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