firefox-3

How to detect TraceMonkey?

Is it possible to detect that a Firefox browser is running the TraceMonkey JavaScript interpreter? If so, is it possible to do it with JavaScript? A solution which involves examining the browser binary or shared libraries is also OK for me. I'm running Linux with Firefox 3.0.14 right now. ...

Flash buttons disabled in layer over scrollable div Windows XP

On XP in Firefox, I load a flash button in a layer that sits above a scrollable div in the z-index. When my flash button is over the background of an empty scrollable div it does not respond to mouse clicks. If I drag the layer so that the scrollable div is no longer behind the flash button, it works as expected. Anyone have any insigh...

Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 on Mac OS X

Hi, I need both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 on my Mac OS X for testing purposes. Is it possible? ...

Firefox Addon Development : Detecting non-compatible addons ?

Few addons are not compatible with mine, so how to detect their presence and inform the user. Thanks ...

jQuery keypress event problem

Hi, I have a function (filterLeads) that I wish to call both when a form field is moved away from (blur) and when the enter key is pressed within a form field. $('#filter input, #filter select').blur(filterLeads); $('#filter input, #filter select').keypress(function(e){if(e.which == 13) {filterLeads();}}); The blur works correctly bu...

Seeking: Firefox pluggin to email a screenshot of the *whole screen* (not just browser).

If find frequent need to send a screenshot of my entire screen to someone via email. And I use Gmail so I can't just paste a screen capture in, I have to open an image editor, paste, save, open Gmail, browse, drill down and select the file. I fond a few FF pluggins that do a nice job but only capture the browser. Any suggestions? ...

Getting HTML out of selection / range from a web page in Mozilla Firefox

Hello, I currently using the following the get the selected text from a webpage into a custom firefox extension: getSelectedText: function(){ var textWindow = document.commandDispatcher.focusedWindow; var text = textWindow.getSelection(); if (text == null) {text =' ';} text = text.toString(); text = text.repla...

Firefox cookies on Linux

Im using Firefox 3 now. I found out that cookies are stored inside a database file called cookies.sqlite Is there any way that I can make my Firefox saves it cookies inside a txt ? ...

Turn all links on a page into https within firefox

Lets just say that I wanted to be extra careful with the website I'm visiting (irrespective of whether the site is offered in https) and wanted to convert every href in the web page received into its https equivalent. Is there a way/add-on to do this ? or do I have to write my own :( ...

looking for overview of readystate and browsers

I'm finding a lot of problems with trying to determine readyState between IE8, FF3, and Chrome. so far this is what I find: Chrome, FF do not fire an event for .onReadyStateChanged Chrome, FF support .onLoad IE8 supports .onReadyStateChanged, but does not support .onLoad IE8 has also returned loaded, and complete. Mostly it states loa...

Embedded media player gets inconsistent currentPosition on both IE8 and Firefox3

I have a embedded media player in the browser that is controlled by javascript to handle all the mediaChange event. The code looks like mediaChangeHandler: function(media) { if (media && this.offset && !this.offsetJumpPerformed) { if (parseFloat(media.duration) > this.offset) { pos = parseInt(pos); t...

A bidirectional scale in Firefox extension

I am writing a firefox extension where I need a bidirectional scale element (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL/scale) While the sample code of this xul element talks about a scale in one direction, how can I make a scale which can have a slider bar at the two directions so that I can take a range as the input? Thanks, Kapil ...

Any way to make firefox 3 compatible with HTML5 tags? (like section, header, etc.)

So yeah.. firefox 3 isn't compatible with html5 tags. How would one get around this without recoding everything? You know, like IE's conditional statement or some such. ...

How to create a package with dlls for downloading and installing the package at client machine from server when running the application in firefox.

Hi, How to create a package with dlls and configuration files for downloading and installing the package at client machine from server when running the application in firefox. Thanks, ...