Firefox downloads in temp files

Nothing new to report. I thought that we had eliminated the same condition this past July by finally removing Firefox and reinstalling. Since you have not found any malware, we should end this topic. I greatly appreciate your help and hope that I will not need to bother you again in the future.

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Then, use it just like you would a local copy of Firefox. There are a couple of things to keep in mind:. 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. If you're using a local copy of Firefox, you may wish to just copy your local Firefox settings right into Firefox Portable. Then, and this is important, delete the file FirefoxPortableSettings. When you start Firefox Portable for the first time, it's recommended that you turn off disk cache, password saving and history if you're 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. It's best to give it a few minutes to see if it's 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. 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, scroll down to Applications. 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 ThunderbirdPortable.

Do not select the main thunderbird. 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. 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. In the PortableApps.

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. Private window mode can be launched by passing -private-window to the FirefoxPortable.

To make it more convenient, we also have an app you can install alongside. You can also rename it for the other channels of Firefox Portable. Note that all plugins except Flash require Firefox to run in bit mode, which you can force with AlwaysUse32Bit. Like many browsers, Firefox will be dropping support for all plugins except Flash by the end of With Firefox Portable, plugins work a bit differently than they do in regular Firefox. Please feel free to let us know if you need further assistance.

Please remember to mark useful reply as answer, which would be much more efficient for other forum community members to find useful information. Otherwise, the script is a few years old now, and Firefox has undergone a complete revamp in that time. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English.

Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Then press "Stop" or "Uninstall" and choose any apps to quit or remove them from your device. Next, you can choose to delete unnecessary data on Android, which is marked as "cache" from the Settings app. This will leave room for apps, photos, music, or any other files you want to keep. Here's how to recover deleted files from Android. Here, let's take Google Chrome as an example to explain how to delete unnecessary files in Android from the browser's menu:.

At times, some screenshots might be considered junk to you. I believe it suggests that the option might be greyed out because of the website I'm downloading the file from incorrectly the filetype. However this is a problem I have been having from every site I have downloaded from - and every site worked fine before my reset.

Yup, the old mimeTypes. The prompt now defaults on "save file" and the checkbox for "do this automatically for files like this from now on" is clickable once more. Seems weird that a reset of Firefox would do something like that, but at least it works again for me. It appears something went wrong in regenerating the default mimeTypes. First time I've heard of that, but without a lot of experimentation, I'm not sure we could get to the bottom of it. I have just the opposite problem, how do I get Firefox to notify me when downloads are complete, show me where they are and offer me a chance to run them?

It used to do it, now I often forget I downloaded something because it does it in the background and I have to go chase down the "download" folder which I can hardly ever find.