01 October 2006 ~ 12 Comments

Disable the Firefox Portable splash screen

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If you run Firefox Portable from a USB drive, you are probably used to seeing the splash screen that is displayed before the browser starts up. If you want to disable the splash screen, here’s how to do it.

Make a copy of the example FirefoxPortable.ini file located the FirefoxPortableSource subdirectory and put it in your main FirefoxPortable directory. Edit the new .ini file so that DisableSplashScreen is set to ‘true’.

For example, here’s what my FirefoxPortable.ini currently looks like:

[FirefoxPortable]
FirefoxDirectory=App\firefox
ProfileDirectory=Data\profile
PluginsDirectory=Data\plugins
UserProfileDirectory=Data\userprofile
FirefoxExecutable=firefox.exe
AdditionalParameters=
LocalHomepage=
DisableSplashScreen=true
AllowMultipleInstances=false
SkipChromeFix=false
SkipCompregFix=false
WaitForFirefox=false
RunLocally=false

Save the file and restart Firefox Portable. No more splash screen.

Update 11/28/06: It would appear that this method does not work in Firefox Portable 2.0. Any ideas?

Update 2/6/07: Fixed! See the comments below.

12 Responses to “Disable the Firefox Portable splash screen”

  1. Sal 6 February 2007 at 12:36 pm Permalink

    The file is now at Other\FirefoxPortableSource\FirefoxPortable.ini and needs to be copied to the same directory as FirefoxPortable.exe.

  2. John 6 February 2007 at 4:33 pm Permalink

    Cool! That totally worked. Thanks for the tip!

  3. Steel Frog 26 February 2007 at 12:58 pm Permalink

    Worked for me! Thanks!

  4. Serge 31 March 2007 at 7:09 am Permalink

    It’s getting me mad i can’t disable this silly splashscreen (i hate splashscreen).
    I have a FirefoxPortableSettings.ini file in the same place than FirefoxPortable.exe.
    My settings are the same than those in this post.
    And it doesn’t work.
    I’ve tryied a lot of combinaisons : [FirefoxPortable] or [FirefoxPortableSettings] in the parameter file ; file renamed “FirefoxPortable.ini” or “FirefoxPortableSettings.ini”, and so on, nothings works, it’s … annoying.

  5. ZaStaR 17 June 2007 at 1:33 pm Permalink

    Serge,
    I found that “DisableSplashScreen=true” is not enough. For some reason, the file needs the entire set of settings from “FirefoxDirectory” down to “RunLocally”.
    Once I copied the ini file and just modified the DisableSplashScreen line, everything worked.

  6. ZaStaR 18 June 2007 at 12:15 pm Permalink

    And don’t mess with the row order.

  7. Houbos 3 July 2008 at 5:58 pm Permalink

    Doesn’t work. Probably because of changes in current version. Any idea?

  8. Michael 3 August 2008 at 4:43 pm Permalink

    I got it to work. It’s easiest to just edit the sample FirefoxPortable.ini in the \Other\Source directory. You can change the DisableSplashScreen option in there.

    Once you do, copy that file to the root directory where the firefoxportable launcher is.

    The .ini has to be in the same folder as the launcher. I just did this with ffportable v3, and it’s working like a charm now.

  9. BUFFBOY 4 August 2008 at 4:32 am Permalink

    any fix for this ???

    latest version is 3.0.1 and this trick dont work

  10. Nuwan Ganganath 2 December 2008 at 8:05 am Permalink

    It works fine. Thanks…

  11. Xdude 29 March 2009 at 5:20 am Permalink

    Thanks a looot guys. In my office we are not allowed to use any other browser than IE 6 but I liked firefox very much thats why I downloaded the portable version of the same. Now I got rid off from the splash screen also.

    BTW I was able to make firefox look like IE 7 and now its working great.

    Cheers!!


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