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Disable the Firefox Portable splash screen

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.

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9 Responses to “Disable the Firefox Portable splash screen”

  1. Sal Says:
    February 6th, 2007 at 12:36 pm

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

  2. John Says:
    February 6th, 2007 at 4:33 pm

    Cool! That totally worked. Thanks for the tip!

  3. Steel Frog Says:
    February 26th, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    Worked for me! Thanks!

  4. Serge Says:
    March 31st, 2007 at 7:09 am

    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 Says:
    June 17th, 2007 at 1:33 pm

    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 Says:
    June 18th, 2007 at 12:15 pm

    And don’t mess with the row order.

  7. Houbos Says:
    July 3rd, 2008 at 5:58 pm

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

  8. BUFFBOY Says:
    August 4th, 2008 at 4:32 am

    any fix for this ???

    latest version is 3.0.1 and this trick dont work

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