Be sure to check the box that allows the installer to close Firefox if it is not checked already. With PFF still running, reinstall Orbit right over the previous installation (the installer automatically does this). Start the version of PFF that you want to integrate.ģ. This assumes that you have already installed Orbit once.Ģ.
e.g., 'C:\Program Files\Orbitdownloader\addons\orbitff' (without the 's). The file should contain one line with the complete path to Orbit's 'addons\orbitff' directory.
If you don't have a permanent installation you can create a file of that name (without the 's) with a text editor. Copy the file ' from a permanently installed version of FF as outlined above to the 'extensions' directory of PFF. Be sure to follow this in the order shown.ġ. Apparently this works with any version of PFF so here is the general procedure. I previously reported that this didn't work with PFF3 but I found the trick that makes it work. Restart Portable FF and, Voila!, you've got full Orbit integration! Ahhhhh! What could be simpler? You should be able to find this file in your own default user directory for your permanent FF installation:Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application you have to do is copy the file ( over to your Portable FF user directory:Ĭ:\Program Files\FirefoxPortable 2\Data\profile\extensions\ I found in my permanent Firefox 1.5 default user directory a tiny (68B) file called ' I examined the contents and found that it contains the path to the Orbit Downloader addons directory where all the necessary mojo for FF integration exists. I'm happy to report to all of you who are yearning for Orbit integration with Portable Firefox that I have found a very simple way to do it that works flawlessly. Nowhere could I find a solution to the problem so I decided to try and solve it myself. I tried making Portable FF my default browser and reinstalling Orbit, making sure the Firefox checkbox was checked but to no avail. Indeed there is a post in these forums complaining about the same problem: I did a search and found that I was not alone in having this problem. So far the only snag I have come up against is that Orbit Downloader, my absolute favorite download manager, would not integrate with Portable FF 2, i.e., the Orbit-specific menu items don't show up in the context menu, and the little grab arrow doesn't show up on pages with media content. I tried using Portable FF 3 beta but could not get some extensions to work so I then tried Portable FF 2 and found that I could get almost all extensions to work.
I found a wonderful article at Lifehacker that shows how to not only migrate all your extensions and settings to Portable Firefox, but how you can also force it to use obsolete extensions: I recently started using Portable Firefox 2 because I was having problems with a corrupted version of Firefox 1.5 and was loathe to switch to an installed version of FF 2 because of past problems with losing functionality of beloved extensions.
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