re AvB2012

[Jasmine]

5December2011
I am using AvB2012ß8 USB version.
The MFF zoom plugin does not work.
The built-in AvB zoom only works on IE6 rendered pages.
I have had the issues described in this thread & elsewhere ...

Does the built-in zoom function work in your latest ab/firefox engine?

[AEN007]

Nothing has changed regarding the AvB Gecko profile read/writes from/to C:\Documents and Settings - ...

This problem is already recorded. We will let you know if it gets fixed.

According to the following»

See here, http://forum.avantbrowser.com/viewtopic ... 13#p183213

AvB told NO ONE about having published a fix for this problem ...

14May2012
Now that AvB has fixed this issue, I would like to tweak my Profiles.ini file
to make my AvB (USB/portable) completely portable.

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[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=S:\Avant\profiles\gecko\ppppppp.default

If I change "IsRelative" from 0 to 1,
then what "syntax" should I use for "Path="?

[Jasmine]

You don't have to modify the profile.ini. You only have to change the profile path here,
Tools->Avant Browser Options...->Profile->Please choose the profile folder:

The profile.ini will change automatcially.

[AEN007]

15May2012
I hope someone will reply and answer my question ...

14May2012
Now that AvB has fixed this issue, I would like to tweak my Profiles.ini file
to make my AvB (USB/portable) completely portable.

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[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=S:\Avant\profiles\gecko\ppppppp.default

If I change "IsRelative" from 0 to 1,
then what "syntax" should I use for "Path="?

The profile.ini file is for the Gecko engine.
Avant Browser options give no options regarding making the Gecko profile location "relative" ...

[kudos]

If I change "IsRelative" from 0 to 1, then what "syntax" should I use for "Path="? The profile.ini file is for the Gecko engine. Avant Browser options give no options regarding making the Gecko profile location "relative" ...

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[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/01234567.default

[bigC]

Whats up kudos?

What exactly does changing that setting do? Just curious

[kudos]

Whats up kudos?

Hey bigC, sorry that I've not been about much lately, just been busy with life.
But you're doing a sterling job in my absence, mate, Mr Reliable ;-)

What exactly does changing that setting do? Just curious

It allows you to run Avant on a portable device by pointing to the profile in a relative/local way.

For example, with IsRelative=0 you have to provide a full path such as:

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X:\Avant\profiles\.default\gecko\Profiles\00000000.default

But with IsRelative=1 the path is always calculated from Avant's Gecko profile folder:

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Profiles/00000000.default

So one can run Avant on a USB stick that may not always have the same drive letter.

The only remaining portability issue is to tell Avant where to put its cache files (currently in the user's local profile).
I may get around to doing a similar utility like OrcaXtra, once Anderson fixes the -runextra bug.

[AEN007]

17May2012

The only remaining portability issue is ...

Seems to me AvB should enable configuring this Profiles.ini file via the GUI - which it seems to me is now not possible.
Also, no "Relative Path" entries I made to Profiles.ini would make AvB read the Gecko profile
when the Gecko profile folder was directly under the Profiles directory.
Profiles.ini is now (no longer under Documents & Settings) under Profiles\.default\Gecko (see previous posts).
I had to move ppppppp.default from Profiles\Gecko to Profiles\.default\Gecko and make Profiles.ini say,

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Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=ppppppp.default

So it seems to me that "IsRelative" is calculated with reference to the Profiles.ini location -
which is under Profiles\.default\Gecko ...

[AEN007]

... remaining portability issue is to tell Avant where to put its cache files (currently in the user's local profile).

The AvB USB vesion is STILL NOT a portable browser. This is ridiculous.
Before AvB had to read from C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Avant.
Now the AvB "relativity" via Profiles.ini does not work "as advertised" (see previously/above) AND
AvB now WRITES to C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Avant
when IsRelative=1. Seems to me AvB should get this right once & for all ...
and let users know when changes have been made ...

[Jasmine]

AvB now WRITES to C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Avant
when IsRelative=1. Seems to me AvB should get this right once & for all ...
and let users know when changes have been made ...

when IsRelative=1, remove the Avant folder in C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla, will you see a new Avant gets created in the same directory?

[AEN007]

YES

[Jasmine]

I have installed avant usb version, I don't have this problem. Are you sure you don't use a previous version of avant browser(check Help->About Avant Browser...)? You'd better search in your computer "avant", and remove all directories containing avant.exe and re-install the Avant usb version.
You can do a test, remove the avant folder under C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla, and start avant usb version, see whether any setting gets changed.

[AEN007]

8June2012
Maybe your config of AvB USB is not really "relative".
I previously posted regarding problems with making AvB USB "relative".
When AvB USB uses an absolute Gecko Profile path, it does not write to c:\D&S...
Kudos also posted regarding this problem of AvB USB writing to c:\D&S\...

The only remaining portability issue is to tell Avant where to put its cache files (currently in the user's local profile).
I may get around to doing a similar utility like OrcaXtra, once Anderson fixes the -runextra bug.

Ask Kudos about it ...

[Jasmine]

I have installed my avant usb version to d:\avant
Then I have D:\avant\profiles\.default\gecko\profiles.ini

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[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/74roarsz.default

I start avant browser usb version and install an extension like roboform addon, I don't see Avant folder created under
%appdata%/mozilla

On the contrary, I see under the following folder a newly created file xpirftoolbar@roboform.com.xpi.
D:\avant\profiles\.default\gecko\Profiles\74roarsz.default\extensions

As you reported, the file should have been created into %appdata%/mozilla/avant/...
Right?

[AEN007]

As you reported, the file should have been created into %appdata%/mozilla/avant/...
Right?

NO ...
as Kudos posted - AvB (when ACTUALLY functioning as relative) will write some/certain (but not all) files to
C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Avant
My experience (as I previously posted) was that just because "IsRelative=1" & a path are specified in the profiles.ini file
doesn't mean AvB is actually functioning with a relative path profile.
Ask Kudos about the issue Kudos posted ...

[kudos]

You need to set the location of the Mozilla engine cache folder.

- Browse to about:config
- Continue past the warning message
- Right click the bottom panel
- Select: New >> String
- Set the preference name to: browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
- Set the value to a folder such as: C:\Temp\
- Restart Avant Browser

The cache files will now be stored in the specified folder.
You can delete the other unwanted folder.
The location of the cache files can be found by browsing to: about:cache

[AEN007]

13June2012

You need to set the location of the Mozilla engine cache folder.
- Set the value to a folder such as: C:\Temp\

As far as I can tell this is NOT a solution because AvB will still NOT be relative.
AvB's pathing of the cache folder will still NOT be relative ...

[Jasmine]

The only remaining portability issue is to tell Avant where to put its cache files (currently in the user's local profile).
I may get around to doing a similar utility like OrcaXtra, once Anderson fixes the -runextra bug.

Hello Kudos,
How are you?
I didn't read this detail.
Running avant browser usb version makes the avant profiles created in %appdata%. But I only see common.ini created after changing the interface language. What else were saved there?

What -runextra did you refer to?
The problem here?
http://forum.avantforce.com/viewtopic.p ... 8&p=184212

[Jasmine]

as Kudos posted - AvB (when ACTUALLY functioning as relative) will write some/certain (but not all) files to
C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Avant

I don't know why it's saved into C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Avant in your machine, but it can confirm there is a bug here now.

[AEN007]

5July2012

2) It would be nice if AvB had an MRU Ctrl-Tab popup.
The MFF add-on I use in MFF does not work at all in AvB.

I would like to reiterate the above point and add the following»
It would be nice if the "Windows" menu item assigned &hotkeys to each open tab ...
that would be a quick-fix for the lacking MRU Ctrl-Tab popup.
Same goes for the list of "Recently open pages" ...

Under the &Window command, there is "More" right above the list of all the open tabs.
When I have many tabs open and want a tab at the start of the list,
I have to hit "m" to jump down to the top of the list of open tabs.
It would be MUCH BETTER if the "Windows" menu item assigned &hotkeys to each open tab ...

I download/use the Avant2012 USB version.
I was using the default eng.lng file (English-US).
(I didn't realize I could tweak that - or any .lng file how I would like.)
Anyway, the eng.lng file entry is &Tools, but my AvB displays Tools.
I changed Exit to E&xit in eng.lng, but AvB still only displayed Exit not Exit.

I switched to euk.lng, and AvB switched to Tools.
I changed Exit to E&xit in euk.lng, and AvB now displays Exit not Exit;
so I am going to full customize & use the euk.lng file.

I guess there is some bug with the eng.lng file ...

If the default language is English United States, after starting ab,
it uses the language integrated to the program(there is template integrated to the program
same as the eng.lng under the directory Lang).
After switching to other languages and switching back, it will call the eng.lng save in the disk.
I assume that's why it can't recognize the modification.

I have been using (a customized) EUK.lng by default.
Yesterday I identified the lines that have been added to the standard euk.lng
since I customized my EUK.lng and copied those new lines into my EUK.lng file.
When I switch from EUK.lng to English (US), under &File there is &Exit -
but in the standard eng.lng (from AvB175) there is no &Exit entry.
There is»

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lvOptionListItem20=Exit
actExit_C=Exit
actExit_H=Exit
actExit_C=Exit

... so it seems AvB is NOT using eng.lng when I switch from EUK.lng ...
I should be able to customize the eng.lng (instead of the EUK.lng) file and then use it,
but so far it seems AvB does not use the eng.lng file ...