Firefox-Clock-Vista-Gadget_2.png' alt='Mozilla Firefox Will Not Uninstall Vista' title='Mozilla Firefox Will Not Uninstall Vista' />The Mozilla Corporation stylized as moza is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet. Find step by step instructions on how to remove or uninstall driver restore on windows. Follow this driver restore uninstall guide to safely remove the software. Profile locked or inaccessible. One of the following messages can appear when you start your Mozilla browser if the profile is either locked or inaccessible. To uninstall Mozilla Firefox from the computer, normally you can uninstall it directly with Windows AddRemove Programs utility as the description below take V 3. Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition Support Portable. Apps. com. Many of the most common issues that arise when using Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition are addressed here. Please read through the various topics to see if any of them address your question. You can also post a question in the Firefox Portable Support Forum. Return to Firefox Portable. Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition Specific Issues. Also, be sure to check out the Frequently Asked Questions in the forum. General Mozilla Firefox Issues. Installing Firefox Portable. To install Firefox Portable, just download the portable package at the top of the Firefox Portable page and then double click it. Select the location you wish to install to and click OK. A Firefox. Portable directory will be created there and all the necessary files installed. Thats all there is to it. Home Inspection Templates. Using Firefox Portable. To start up Firefox Portable, just double click Firefox. Portable. exe file where you installed Portable. Firefox on your portable drive. Then, use it just like you would a local copy of Firefox. There are a. couple of things to keep in mind Stay Safe When using portable apps, its always a good idea to practice. Safe Portable App ing. Removing Your Drive When youre done, exit Firefox and then wait for the. This may take a minute or more. Windows-Programs-And-Features.jpg' alt='Mozilla Firefox Will Not Uninstall Vista' title='Mozilla Firefox Will Not Uninstall Vista' />Then select the Safely remove device option from the icon in the system tray. If you remove the drive while it is writing, you may lose data. Upgrading Firefox Portable. To upgrade to a newer version of Firefox Portable, just install a new copy of Firefox Portable right over your old one. All your data will be preserved. You can use the built in updater as well, but some non personal files or directories may be left behind. Mozilla Firefox Your web, the way you like it high performance, easy customization and advanced security. Don t settle for anything less. If youre upgrading from Portable Firefox older name and directories, make a copy of your existing profile folder within the Portable. FirefoxDataprofile directory on your portable drive. Then download the new version of Firefox Portable and copy your profile from the old version into the new version within. Firefox. PortableDataprofile. If you added any plugins or searchplugins, you should copy those directories as well Portable. Firefoxplugins to Firefox. PortableDataplugins and Portable. Firefoxfirefoxsearchplugins to Firefox. PortableAppfirefoxsearchplugins. Copying Your Local Firefox Settings. If youre using a local copy of Firefox, you may wish to just copy your local Firefox settings right into Firefox Portable. Your local Firefox profile is usually installed in C Documents and SettingsuserApplication DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault. After running Firefox Portable once to let it setup its data directories, just copy the contents of that folder except the cache directories to the Firefox. PortableDataprofile directory. Then, and this is important, delete the file Firefox. Portable. Settings. Firefox. PortableDatasettings directory, if there is one. When you start Firefox Portable for the first time, its recommended that you turn off disk cache, password saving and history if youre using a flash based portable device. You can set all of these within the Privacy tab of the Firefox Options window. Sometimes, certain profiles will cause the launcher to fail or hang. Its best to give it a few minutes to see if its just checking compatibility and adjusting the locations of the extensions before giving up on it. If it fails, it is usually due to an incompatible extension. Configuring mailto links to use Thunderbird Portable, etc. Firefox Portable can be configured to open mail links in Thunderbird Portable or another portable mail client of your choice. To do so, click the menu icon in the toolbar sometimes called the hamburger menu and select Options. In the Options tab, click Applications on the left hand side. Scroll down until you see mailto in the Content Type column and click the dropdown in the right hand column next to it. Select Use other. Click the Browse button and select the Thunderbird. Portable. exe launcher or similar for another client. Do not select the main thunderbird. Thunderbird to run in non portable mode. Click OK in the popup window and then close your Options tab. Mailto links will now open in Thunderbird Portable. The path will be adjusted automatically as you move PCs. Using a Second or Third Profile with Firefox Portable. A second profile can allows you to setup another set of settings bookmarks, extensions, preferences, etc for Firefox Portable that you can use independent of your main settings. This is useful for sharing a flash drive with someone, testing extensions and configuration options or separating our work from personal details. To use a second profile, install the Firefox Portable 2nd Profile 2. Portable. Apps directory that Firefox. Portable is in so, if Firefox Portable is installed to X Portable. AppsFirefox. Portable, youd install this to X Portable. AppsFirefox. Portable. Profile. In the Portable. Apps. com Menu, it will show up as Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 2nd Profile. You can easily rename it to something more useful by right clicking and selecting rename. When you run it, it will start Firefox Portable up with your second profile without affecting your main profile. You can even install a 3rd or 4th profile by installing the 2nd Profile app again to another location like X Portable. AppsFirefox. Portable. ProfileCopy1 so the platform will update it for you and then renaming it in the Portable. Apps. com Menu. Installing Plugins Java, Flash, Shockwave, etc. Note that all plugins except Flash require Firefox to run in 3. Always. Use. 32. Bit. Like many browsers, Firefox will be dropping support for all plugins except Flash by the end of 2. With Firefox Portable, plugins work a bit differently than they do in regular Firefox. Heres how to do some of the most common plugins Java Runtime Environment To use Java apps with Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, just install j. Portable alongside. If Firefox Portable is in X Portable. AppsFirefox. Portable, j. Portable should install to X Portable. AppsCommon. FilesJava. The Firefox Portable launcher will automatically detect and configure the Java plugin for use. Flash Plugin To install Flash, you can either try our easy to use Flash installer for Firefox Portable, or follow these steps. Flash is available as an extension. Just click the link. Youll probably see a yellow bar across the top of the browser if not, skip to Step 5, on that bar, click Edit Options. In the popup window, click Allow to add Portable. Apps. com to your whitelist and then click close. Now try the link again. Youll see a popup asking if you would like to install, click OK after the countdown and follow along the prompts. Shockwave Plugin To install Shockwave, follow these steps. Download the free Shockwave Player from the Macromedia website. Run the installation routine and, instead of letting it install to a local browser, select to choose your browser. Browse to X Firefox. PortableAppfirefox where X is your devices driver letter and continue with the installation. You may need to restart Firefox Portable for the changes to take effect. Other Plugins Other plugin directions are coming soon.