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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.

While hunting for an application to take full-length screenshots of a websites (i.e. not just the visible window, the whole thing), someone suggested Screen Grab. It’s a extension for Firefox that uses Java, and apparently does everything I want.

I installed it this evening and it seems to work perfectly. It adds three options to the right-click context menu for a given page including “Save document as image…” which saves the current webpage to a png.

As an example, here’s a full-length screenshot my site (resized) using the extension. There are some more examples on the project homepage.

Simple enough, and works well. I like it!