Is there any work being done?

Is there any work being done?

bmmcwhirt 27 Jan 2012 11:41

I have noticed that the most recent version of FireFox portable is 4.0.xomething and the current version is 9.0.1. Is there any work still being done on making these apps portable for Mac and especialy Lion?

LibreOffice doesn't even work at all. It simply syas 'libre office opened sucessfuly' followed by 'libreoffice quit successfuly'. It seems like even with the Lion patch most of the apps are so outdated they either dont work well or run a a crawling pace in Lion.

Re: Is there any work being done?

CGand 27 Jan 2012 17:08

1. Firefox 4.0.1 was last version available at release date (21.05.2011). Use Firefox built-in update to get current release.
2. While Portable LibreOffice work from your desktop, it quit when launched from a USB drive.

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Re: Is there any work being done?

deeptoaster 03 May 2012 14:36

So Firefox will still remain fully portable even if I update it? Thanks a lot!

Re: Is there any work being done?

CGand 03 May 2012 16:47

So Firefox will still remain fully portable even if I update it?

Yes, it will. Just exit and relaunch it (as Portable) at the end of the update.

Re: Is there any work being done?

deeptoaster 15 May 2012 22:14

Oh, I had no idea. That's awesome, thanks!

Re: Is there any work being done?

deeptoaster 10 Oct 2012 16:05

I can't get it to update beyond 13.0—I can download the update and when I click "Apply Update," Firefox quits and reopens, but it's still at 13.0 and gives me the error that it failed to apply the patch.

I'm on OS X 10.6.8.

Re: Is there any work being done?

CGand 12 Oct 2012 14:22

Download last Firefox version and copy it in Resources folder inside Portable app bundle (ctrl+Clic - Show bundle content).

Re: Is there any work being done?

deeptoaster 05 Nov 2012 19:11

Thanks—worked like a charm!

As a suggestion, I think it would be really useful to make a note of it on the Portable Firefox download page.

Re: Is there any work being done?

CGand 06 Nov 2012 07:29

As a suggestion, I think it would be really useful to make a note of it on the Portable Firefox download page.

Thanks, done.

How can I get multiple instances of FF portable to run?

PaulElson 10 Feb 2012 15:43

In the PC version of portable Firefox it is easy (through editing an ini file) to allow the application to be opened multiple times and that meant that several google email accounts etc could be logged into at any time.

I cannot find a way of replicating this valuable feature in this otherwise perfect solution to our need - has anyone achieved this already and willing to share how please?

Re: How can I get multiple instances of FF portable to run?

CGand 10 Feb 2012 16:35

The easy way is duplicate/copy Portable Firefox on your Hard Disk (or your portable device) as many time as you need for your multiple accounts.

Or you can use terminal and on each/multiple shell window do:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -profile /your/profile/folder/path

To get folder path just drag it on terminal window.
You can then save these scripts as executable and open them each time you need.
In case your Firefox.app and profile folders are on a portable device, modify path accordingly.

Otherwise you'd need a full license of Fluid.app.