Waterfox Portable [Support Topic]

Some modifications have been made through policies to ensure portability:

• Disable updater : Waterfox updates are turned off.

• Don’t check default browser : Stops Waterfox from checking if it is the default browser at startup.

• ‘Know your rights’: Don’t show on first run.

• WhatsNew: Don’t show WhatsNew on first run after every update.

• Profile: Profile path is overrided to data\profile folder (see below).

• A shortcut is created at launch to allow native notifications and removed when Waterfox is closed

Configuration

Waterfox™ portable can be configured through the main YAML configuration file: located in the portable apps root folder. Rename waterfox-portable.sample.yml to waterfox-portable.yml.

app:
  profile: default
  multiple_instances: false
  cleanup: false

• profile : Name of the profile created in data\profile\<name> (default default)

• multiple_instances : Allow multiple instances (default false)

• cleanup : Cleanup leftover folders (default false)

Policies

You can use custom policies by creating data/policies.json file like this one:

{
  "policies": {
    "DisableFirefoxStudies": true,
    "DisableTelemetry": true
  }
}

DisableAppUpdate and DontCheckDefaultBrowser are forced to true.