Hmm....odd. I've never had problems with it losing profiles except for it being confused about what drive to look for them on when the USB stick was on a different drive letter than normal.
I just "installed" from zip. I used to start it with -p all the time so as to avoid the aforementioned confusion, but now I just use this batch script (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=377398#377398), which takes care of that problem.
I bet you've done it already, but try unzipping to a new folder on the USB stick and starting it for the first time on the command line with -p to make sure it's really making a new profile and putting it on the stick properly (it'll try to put it in the default profile folder, which means it'll use your regular profile if you have Firefox on that computer already). If you get it working, the batch script's really handy, particularly if you're using machines with different configurations on the same Windows profile.
Yeah, not much help probably, but maybe there's something you hadn't tried there. :)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-03-24 10:31 pm (UTC)I just "installed" from zip. I used to start it with -p all the time so as to avoid the aforementioned confusion, but now I just use this batch script (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=377398#377398), which takes care of that problem.
I bet you've done it already, but try unzipping to a new folder on the USB stick and starting it for the first time on the command line with -p to make sure it's really making a new profile and putting it on the stick properly (it'll try to put it in the default profile folder, which means it'll use your regular profile if you have Firefox on that computer already). If you get it working, the batch script's really handy, particularly if you're using machines with different configurations on the same Windows profile.
Yeah, not much help probably, but maybe there's something you hadn't tried there. :)