Register Firefox Portable with Default Programs or Default Apps in Windows

19 thoughts on “Register Firefox Portable with Default Programs or Default Apps in Windows”

1. worsk even for Opera@USB although the description still reads “Firefox portable” 🙂

2. It works great for me on Windows 7 Pro. Thanks for building this.

3. hello

   After using this method, everything works great, except–

   when i double-click a local html file, the filename incorrectly gets incorrectly changed to the old dos 8-character naming, and spaces are treated as separate files.

   for example, if i double-click a local file called:
   C:\Users\john\Documents\Clients\Jeffrey\Footprints\Walking Tour\avatar\googleMapsAPItest.html

   firefox portable opens the following two tabs:

   file:///C:/Users/john/DOCUME~1/Clients/Jeffrey/Footprints/Walking

   how can i fix this?

   note, firefox portable is set as the default program for local html files.

4. Someone on the portable apps site suggested the following. If this is the case, can you update your registerfp? THANKS!

   Did you perhaps make a batch file that uses %1 as the input parameter?

   If so, try changing the %1 to “%1” which will force Windows to NOT break the
   input string at the space (which is how it sees it as two parameters).

   | Link: portableapps . com/node/24299#comment-154531

5. @Johny why: Thanks! This is fixed in v1.1

6. Very useful.
   Now if only we could have a program which could do that for all portable programs 🙂

7. very useful. thank you

8. Windows 2008 R2 SP1 + FirefoxPortable 4.0
   After using your tool, the register process is ok. But when a FirefoxPortable is running, clicking the link from the 3rd program (eg. MSN), it prompts “Firefox is already running but is not responding”. How to resolve it ?

   Woo

9. Great. But what about Thunderbird as default Email Client?

   Would be a great little app if it did both

   Thank You

10. It works perfectly in windows 8 professional 64 bit.

    thank you very much

11. It doesn’t work when using Outlook 2013 when I try clicking on a link in a mail to be opened with FFportable on W8.
    It still says “Your organization’s policies are preventing us from completing this action for you.”

12. Hi, this is great app. Please can you do the same from Thunderbird Portable.

    Thank You!!

    PD: Sorry for my English

13. I have used FF for almost a decade now, and got used to browse with my session saved – tabs, windows, and tab groups. And I would never use my main browser with facebook for example, because of tracking etc.
    Also, it becomes annoying if you just want to open 1 link you got sent via instant messaging etc., in which case I use a installation of Firefox Portable, but had to start it manually before. Also, program installations and updates like to open the default browser unasked.
    Your little tool fixed that for me, thank you very much! 🙂

14. registerfp.zip did work, but the minute I open crappy chrome it makes itself the default browser

15. It does not work correctly because essentially it doesn’t really set it as the “Default Browser”. When it does is only associating those files and protocols with ffp.

    What it should have done is instead associate ffp with htmlfile, http, and https in classes registry.

16. It works on Windows 8.1 too.

17. awsome!!!!!! works in Win 8.1
    Used it on Opera portable (just point to launcher.exe in the directory where you keep Opera) then the Opera icon becomes available to associate file type (.htm/.html) and protocol (HTTP/HTTPS)

18. Works in Win 10 with Firefox portable, thanks Ramesh

19. Is there a way to do this for other portable apps like VLC for example? Or maybe you could tell us how to do it in the registry on our own.

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