Because Firefox Portable is self-contained, it will not write any data to your hard drive or registry. That means you can test out Firefox 3's new features like Places, and improved location bar without messing up your current settings. You don't have to install Firefox 3 Portable to a flash drive, you can just as easily install it to a folder on your hard drive.
If you want to run Firefox 3 beta while you have a Firefox 2 window open, you'll need to make one small tweak. Find the FirefoxPortable.ini file in \Other\Sources\ and copy it to the directory that has FirefoxPortable.exe. Edit FirefoxPortable.ini with Notepad, Wordpad, or whatever text editor you prefer, and change AllowMultipleInstances=false so that it says true. Save the file and you can now run Firefox 2 and 3 at the same time.
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12-07-2007 @ 1:46PM
Gardiner Westbound said...
It wouldn't work for me.
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12-09-2007 @ 10:14PM
RP said...
It ran for me, but I didn't see the "Places" button. Is there a way to enable it?
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12-16-2007 @ 8:11AM
yhancik said...
Bookmarks -> Organize bookmarks
12-16-2007 @ 5:38PM
RP said...
Firefox 3 beta has a button named "Places" on the Bookmarks toolbar (left side). The button leads to several sub-menus:
- Recently Starred Pages
- Recently Visited Starred Pages
- Most Visited Starred Pages
- Recently Used Tags
- Most Used Tags
- Most Visited Pages
I don't see any of this in the portable version... even though the article mentions it. My bookmarks toolbar only has "Getting Started".
12-10-2007 @ 12:29AM
Redneck Techy said...
It did not work for me either till I moved a copy of the FirefoxPortable.ini file with the tweak above to the outer location where the FirefoxPortable.exe file is. It was not enough just to change the file where it was at I actually have two seperate copies both of them adjusted to AllowMultipleInstances=true. Now it works great
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12-13-2007 @ 5:22PM
SonofPearl said...
Doesn't work for me either. The 'install' button is greyed out. The tweak makes no difference.
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12-16-2007 @ 8:11AM
yhancik said...
I've seen the same issue (greyed out button) if you don't select a proper install directory (not the default "/firefoxportable" or whatever it was)
12-20-2007 @ 9:36AM
SonofPearl said...
It still doesn't work - wherever I try to install it on my memory stick.
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