(I'll delete and repost this and any other comments I make when I finally get back into a working copy of Firefox...I have to anon with no password manager in Edge, for now)
Possible you might want to scratch Firefox ESR Portable from that portable list above; it did a bad install (dialog box said it was missing a temp file on firstrun). When it finally ran (very slow to open), it opened two windows: a regular full-sized one and a smaller rectangular box with scrollbars on all sides of it. Neither window painted any content (both stayed empty; the bigger one had a grey load spinner that just kept spinning) and the rectangular one couldn't be brought to the front so it could be viewed, so I have no idea what was going on there.
After ESR had been running/not loading for a while I pinned it to the Win10 Taskbar. After windows failed to paint/finish loading I closed ESR; it took extra-long to shut down. Clicked the taskbar icon to run it again and got three error messages: 1) "code execution cannot proceed because mozglue.dll was not found; reinstalling the program may fix this problem", 2) ditto msvcp140.dll, 3) ditto vcruntime140.dll.
With the help of Everything search, I saw ESR installed to AppData on Windows 10. Copy/pasting the path I saw it's located at C:\Users\[PCName]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState\Downloads\FirefoxPortableESR\FirefoxPortable.exe
That's the location it actually runs from, which I find just a bit...odd. Opening it from exactly that path results in none of the above errors (it runs just fine) but same deal otherwise, minus the little rectangular box -the page is empty and won't paint, and doesn't seem to work - running searches from the search box and typing addresses in the address bar does nothing.
The last issue *might* be on my firewall settings, so I'll check and try to run ESR Portable again to see if changing firewall rules helps but either way, I think this decided me that I'm going with a copy of Dev Edition and regular ESR, which I think is one combo I won't need to explicitly set separate profiles for (which is all I want to avoid, at this point!).
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ESR Portable is acting weird
Date: 2017-11-25 07:11 am (UTC)From: (Anonymous)Possible you might want to scratch Firefox ESR Portable from that portable list above; it did a bad install (dialog box said it was missing a temp file on firstrun). When it finally ran (very slow to open), it opened two windows: a regular full-sized one and a smaller rectangular box with scrollbars on all sides of it. Neither window painted any content (both stayed empty; the bigger one had a grey load spinner that just kept spinning) and the rectangular one couldn't be brought to the front so it could be viewed, so I have no idea what was going on there.
After ESR had been running/not loading for a while I pinned it to the Win10 Taskbar. After windows failed to paint/finish loading I closed ESR; it took extra-long to shut down. Clicked the taskbar icon to run it again and got three error messages: 1) "code execution cannot proceed because mozglue.dll was not found; reinstalling the program may fix this problem", 2) ditto msvcp140.dll, 3) ditto vcruntime140.dll.
With the help of Everything search, I saw ESR installed to AppData on Windows 10. Copy/pasting the path I saw it's located at C:\Users\[PCName]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState\Downloads\FirefoxPortableESR\FirefoxPortable.exe
That's the location it actually runs from, which I find just a bit...odd. Opening it from exactly that path results in none of the above errors (it runs just fine) but same deal otherwise, minus the little rectangular box -the page is empty and won't paint, and doesn't seem to work - running searches from the search box and typing addresses in the address bar does nothing.
The last issue *might* be on my firewall settings, so I'll check and try to run ESR Portable again to see if changing firewall rules helps but either way, I think this decided me that I'm going with a copy of Dev Edition and regular ESR, which I think is one combo I won't need to explicitly set separate profiles for (which is all I want to avoid, at this point!).
Will keep you updated...MM