[PortableFirefox] Re: portable firefox not running on Fujitsu laptop

[dp deng]

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
>