Glad everything is working so well for you. Thanks for the idea for a ‘tutorial’ with the alphas and nightlies. I will have to put that together soon.

-Ryan

I’m up on v.1.5.0.2 and with full profile, bookmarks, and extensions from 1.5 vanilla. Thank You kindly!

The last thing I added was a live bookmark to Cybernet Technology news

It’s easy just to download the portable, extract, copy over the profile, and drop a shortcut on the desktop — so that I can have multiple profiles or versions.

I’ll be retiring the pseudo-Deer Park.
When you can sometime, give us a “laymans” introduction to the “alphas” and “nightlies.” “Minefield” sounds interesting. No worries test driving, when there’s no problem blowing up your working versions.

Thanks again!

-Ryan

The Trunk has been given the label of Minefield and a new generic About graphic since April.11 about. Just try a recent Trunk build and you will see what I mean.

You may want to update your outdated info in your other recent article.

No problem, I am actually in the process of writing up a short tutorial on making these changes.

-Ryan

The ini file changes worked fine in Deerpark, which allows me to run both 1.5 and Deerpark simultaneously. That helps!

I tried the same changes first with the v.1.5 install. No joy. Nor am I sure why it didn’t work there, but no matter.

Will try the profile subdirectory copy and v.1.5.0.2 side-by-side install later. The ini reconfiguration goes a long way toward helping me get my feet wet before taking the plunge.

Looking forward to it!!

First, to get rid of the splash screen, copy the PortableFirefox.ini from the PortableFirefoxCode folder into the main PortableFirefox directory where the PortableFirefox.exe is located. Open the PortableFirefox.ini and change DisableSplashScreen=false to DisableSplashScreen=true. Now it will not show the splash screen on startup.

Next, if you want to run multiple instances of different versions of Portable Firefox then in that same PortableFirefox.ini file change the value AllowMultipleInstances=false to AllowMultipleInstances=true. That way you can run different versions side-by-side.

Lastly, if you want to upgrade to a new version of Portable Firefox and want all of your settings the same still, all you have to do is copy the Profile folder over from your current Portable Firefox and overwrite the Profile folder in the new Portable Firefox. All of your extensions, bookmarks, passwords, etc… will all be copied over.

I think that answered most of your questions, let me know if you have any more.

-Ryan

With the beta, I get a chance to test drive and tweak, even though there are major hiccups that often crash out Deer Park. Nonetheless it’s fun for volatile browsing! For more serious work, it’s back to v.1.5 vanilla. Did I mention that both are portable installs?

I’d be quite happy to somehow turn off the annoying popup notices about upgrade available when running v.1.5 vanilla. Does anyone know how?

As for v.1.5.0.2 … there must be a way to install it as a new instance that doesn’t wipe out my old v.1.5 tailoring. Perhaps, I can copy the whole portable install from another machine?

The fact is that I mostly quit using v.1.5 at work since I can’t copy a webpage table “cell for cell” into an excel spreadsheet (*). My work place version should be a good candidate to upgrade — even if I have to rebuild all the toolbar quick links. (* — each record is copied into a single cell, sigh!)

Perhaps Firefox should follow a leap-frog approach where two instances can be set-up up on the same system (existing and upgrade). For business, it’s a matter of risk vs. benefit. Minor upgrades are often just not worth the risk.