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Title: portable mode not working
Post by: c365 on 2015-01-13, 19:17:13
Hi, to all!
I'm very impressed with development progress of otter
about two month ago I definitively replaced all other WebKit based browser with it!

Sadly, starting by weekly build #52 I got the following error when executing it with --portable switch:

This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows".

(launching it without options it works like expected)

I would like to run it in portable mode... does someone has a solution?
tnx
Title: Re: portable mode not working
Post by: Zotho on 2015-01-17, 11:22:36
I just tried the same with --portable in the link to Otter and it worked without issues.
Maybe try to use a fresh Otter release to verify?
Title: Re: portable mode not working [partially solved]
Post by: c365 on 2015-01-19, 08:45:05
Thanks for the reply.
I tried a fresh install of weekly build #52 #53 and #54 using either a new profile folder that an old one without success...
My suspect is that on Windows otter is replacing enviromnent varialbe QT_PLUGIN_PATH
so as workaround I created the following bat file:

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%~d0
cd %~dp0
set QT_PLUGIN_PATH=%~dp0
start otter-browser --portable


and it Works!
Title: Re: portable mode not working
Post by: Emdek on 2015-01-19, 21:27:41
@c365, there was fix for #612 (https://github.com/Emdek/otter/issues/612) which might be related to this issue.