Feature request for creating Live CD
B Galliart <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:14:39 -0500
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I am running into a roadblock for creating a Live CD (or read-only USB drive) version of Firefox where no installation to the hard drive is required. It seems that where profiles.ini is read from is hard coded to be read from the registery. While the "-P" flag allows selecting from different profiles defined in the profiles.ini, it does not allow for selecting an alternative location for the profiles.ini file itself. I would like a way on the command line to specify an alternative source for the registery settings for firefox and to be able to set the variables relative to the directory that firefox.exe is running from. Such that I could run "D:\firefox.exe -R regfile" where regfile contains: "Install DIrectory"="%CURRENT%\" "PathToExe"="%CURRENT%\firefox.exe" "Program Folder Path"="%CURRENT%\profiles\" "Components"="%CURRENT%\Components" "Plugins"="%CURRENT%\Plugins" Hence, profiles.ini would be read from D:\profiles\profiles.ini given that the CD is D: but also continue to work even if the CD drive is assigned a different drive letter. As far as I can tell, I am able to address the other issues of running from a read-only media by a revised theme/configuration which strips out the features of Firefox which would fail in such an enviroment (disk caching, changing preferences, etc.).