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is it possible to install FF outside the windows user folder?

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My work-pc (windows 7) has a roaming profile. I am local admin. The maximum profile size of my user account is only 100mb. The first thing I did when I got a fresh OS was trying to install FF. That worked fine, but after a few day my profile exceeded the 100 mb's. FF amounted to more than 50 mb's of data. Mainly in the hidden app-data folders.

So here my question. Is it possible to do a custom install, with a minimum amount of data in my win7 user account?

My work-pc (windows 7) has a roaming profile. I am local admin. The maximum profile size of my user account is only 100mb. The first thing I did when I got a fresh OS was trying to install FF. That worked fine, but after a few day my profile exceeded the 100 mb's. FF amounted to more than 50 mb's of data. Mainly in the hidden app-data folders. So here my question. Is it possible to do a custom install, with a minimum amount of data in my win7 user account?

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Simplest solution may be to use Firefox Portable instead.

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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

Simplest solution may be to use Firefox Portable instead.

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Cool, your rely lead me to (in dutch):

https://support.mozilla.org/nl/kb/profielbeheerder-firefox-profielen-maken-en-verwijderen#w_een-profiel-verplaatsen

After a clean install of FF I pointed the profile to a different location. The size of the FF profile after first usage is about 20 mb. Which is a lot on the max size of a 100 of my user account!

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Happy that it works.
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