Firefox – How to disable Firefox Portable from automatically loading plugins

If you're referring to the internal "Search for.." of Firefox, probably there's no such option.

Well, in fact I'm surprised you want that behavior, but of course it's a matter of personal taste and work flow. But think of 'heavy' pages you're on -- when you search something and it opens in the same tab, and then you click 'Back', it will be a lot of work for the browser to re-render the page. The work flow is also different for me, because I often search not in Google, but look up words in dictionaries using Context Search add-on.

There's kind of similar option browser.search.context.loadInBackground recently added, saying whether to focus the new tab or not. Perhaps you should open an issue in Bugzilla.

Alternative workaround:

Instead of right clicking and choosing 'Search in Google', you can

• make sure Google is selected as default search engine in the search field you have in top-right of the browser,
• set browser.search.openintab to false (this affects only search from the search field),
• select the text,
• drag it from the page onto the search field of the Firefox.

That way you'll have it opened in the same tab.

1. Download registerfp.zip and save to Desktop.
2. Unzip the archive and extract the contents to a folder.
3. Double-click the file RegisterFirefoxPortable.exe to run it
4. When you see the User Account Control dialog, click Allow
5. Click the Browse button and locate the Firefox Portable executable!
6. Click Register
7. This is all, firefox Portable has been set as your default browser.. ;-)

Remember: This will work great as long as the drive with Portable Apps (Firefox Portable) is connected with your laptop or computer...

EDIT: @Celeritas: well for me it's working just fine, if the account you're using in windows is guest or other restricted account then You will need to have more rights to do this. full administrator rights should get this to work, right click the extracted executable found in the zip file, and click in the menu something like "as Administrator" make sure the path to firefox portable is the correct path, it should be something like: ?:\????????\portable installs\Portable Apps\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe Where "?" is a part of your path to firefox portable in most cases it's a removable drive.. Only not working if Outlook 2013 and ZoneAlarm, Advanced System Care and other browser protection software can protect your current settings and protect your default browser settings, if installed on your system. You could try to close all outlook and other processes that protect your current settings and retry after it may be working when you're able to find out what exactly is blocking your order to make changes to default browser settings eg anti virus/anti spyware firewall etc if so you need to change in the program that protect your settings as well... I hope this will help you to the right direction, good luck hope this comment was able to help you out