| Pandoras_box | 10-28-2019 08:45 AM |
Re: Residential Proxy for Portable Firefox
I love Mozilla but they have become too presumptuous.
They now force auto-update on most of their solutions, leaving users with little choice.
The team behind PortableApps do well to cater to users but Mozilla can be frustrating.
For example, if you look at
\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\prefs.js
You'd find auto-update has been set to "false" but some brilliant lad at Mozilla must have found a way around it so we're force-fed updates.
If you don't plan on ever updating it, you go to this folder:
\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\
then delete the following files: updater.exe
updater.ini
update-settings.ini
AND
Do the same for files in
\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox64\
If you plan on any updates in the future, instead of removing the files above, you can append characters after the dot to make the files dormant.
One of the many downsides to FFP is that they don't keep a version history.
If you want to use multiple FFP with different versions, you have to either hunt and keep your own versions from PortableApps or
go to https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/
download an executable (not MSI) and unpack it with 7zip or similar tool (not install)
You'd get a portable version of your choice. | 
