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Overview
- From the article, we are already did the first 4 steps, so we skip and continue next:
- Move “%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles” and “%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini to the portable location of our Firefox
- Open the files, and edit [Crash Reporter] to be “Enabled=0”
- Find our shortcut of the firefox and change the path, adding the profile folder starting like -profile “folder path”. See Step seven from the page, for more information.
- Close everything and open Firefox again.
- Verify if everything works correctly.
- We don’t need ini file
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Step 1: Backup everything
- your %appdata%\Firefox folder
- the names of your Firefox add-ons, if any
- the settings of your Firefox add-ons, if any
- the about:config settings you changed in Firefox, if any
- the names of your Firefox search engines, if you added any manually
- your %appdata%\Thunderbird folder
- your Thunderbird address books
- the names of your Thunderbird add-ons, if any
- the settings of your Thunderbird add-ons, if any
- the settings of your email accounts
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Important!
%appdata% refers to a standard Windows location at C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming.
To open it on your computer, launch Windows Explorer, then type and enter %appdata% into Windows Explorer’s address bar.
It’s best to open up a text editor and copy/paste all these information there.
It’s also extremely useful to make screenshots of settings pages and windows, because typing them all up might lead to mistyping important information.
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Step 2: Uninstall Non-Portable
Uninstall the non-portable versions of both Firefox and Thunderbird.
To do so, go to Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features, select Mozilla Firefox and click on the Uninstall button. Then go through the uninstall process.
Next, do the same for Mozilla Thunderbird. |
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Step 3: Remove Remainders
Manually remove what’s left behind, namely the following four folders:
Important!
%localappdata% refers to a standard Windows location at C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local.
To open it on your computer, launch Windows Explorer, then type and enter %localappdata% into Windows Explorer’s address bar.
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Remove What’s Left Behind - Click to enlarge Say if needed
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Step 4: Download
Click to download portable Firefox and portable Thunderbird.
Create a folder for each in your main portable folder. Then set them both up by double-clicking on their downloaded executable files.
Finally, launch both programs and close them after a few seconds.
Do not start them up again until after you are done with Step Eight of this tutorial. |
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Step 5: Small Things
Although PortableApps.com did an excellent job making Firefox and Thunderbird portable, there are still a few places that need patching to make their portability absolute.
Move the following folder and file:
to C:\Portable\Mozilla Firefox or any other location where your portable Firefox resides. |
Cleanup Last Folders from Old Mozilla - Click to enlarge Comment:
Profile.ini is not needed |
Notice
I decided to place all my portable software to one folder to further simplify matters should I need to move all of them to another computer in the future.
The simplest folder name I was able to come up with was C:\Portable.
You have to move the whole Profiles folder, as well as the profiles.ini file, even if there’s just one profile listed within the folder. |
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Step 6: Application.Ini
Open the following two files in Notepad++:
Do this only when want to disable Crash Reporter.
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Edit Files with Notepad++ - Click to enlarge Say if needed
No, we keep the original settings
We use the Crash Reporter –> Entry in TinyWall is missing. |
Step 7:
Create a shortcut for your portable Mozilla Firefox and add the – profile “C:\Portable\Mozilla Firefox” parameter to it.
When using the same profile folder, we will have lots conflicted files.
Because we use Firefox from different computers.
Each Computer has one Firefox
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Mozilla Firefox Properties - Click to enlarge Say if needed
The parameter not needed, profile default is exactly there |
This way you made sure that Firefox reads your profile information from the portable location and will not create a new %appdata% profile instead of the one you removed in Step Five.
Firefox will still create a folder structure in %appdata% like this:
No traces of Firefox in the appdate = Roaming folder |
Firefox Folder Structure in appdata - Click to enlarge Say if we have this.
no
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It also creates an empty folder structure at %localappdata%\Mozilla\Firefox.
But all of that gets removed as you close Firefox. Then it gets regenerated when you launch Firefox the next time. And so on. |
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The InstallTimeYYYYMMDDHHMMSS file is a shorthand. The actual filename will be something like InstallTime20150802143041, where the numbers specify the year, month, day, hour, minute and second of the Mozilla product’s local installation.
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Step 8: Thunderbird
Create a shortcut for your portable Mozilla Thunderbird and add the – profile “C:\Portable\Mozilla Thunderbird” parameter to it.
Again, this is to make Thunderbird read your profile information from the portable folder, so that it doesn’t create a new %appdata% profile instead of the one you removed in Step Five.
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Mozilla Thunderbird Properties - Click to enlarge Say if we have this.
No, it is the same as Firefox |
| Thunderbird will still create a folder structure in %appdata% like this:
It also creates an empty folder called Thunderbird in C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local.
But all of that gets removed as you close Firefox. Then it gets regenerated when you launch Firefox the next time. And so on. |
Mozilla Thunderbird Folder Structure in appdata - Click to enlarge Say if we have this
No, it is the same as Firefox |
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