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Load up a live CD of your distro in your VM. Install a browser. Load up all your plugins, bookmarks, sites, when you have it completely how you want it, tarball your Firefox config folder to a USB drive.
The next time you want to use it, start the live CD again and untar the tarball back in your config directory. Anytime you want to update it, just remake the tarball.
It's ephemeral, no logs are stored, you have almost no chance of accidentally loading the wrong thing.
I like that idea, thanks :)