I'm working on a fairly large site and am having trouble managing z-indexes. Is there a Firefox add-on that will look at a page and give me an ordered list of every element with a z-index declared? That would save a ton of times for the cases where a z-index was wrong or hard to find. ...
I have a Rails application, and when I have Javascript errors they are not showing in the Firebug console. I have 'Show javascript errors' and 'Show javascript warnings' selected. When I insert javascript errors in a basic html file, the errors show as expected. In the javascript of the Rails app, it only shows errors in rare cases. F...
I am new to extension development, I have a requirement wherein I need to do some checking on the page and display a popup message at the bottom of main window, just above the status bar. I used the insertAfter attribute with value "browser-bottombox" but this does not display the label at all. <overlay id="gHook" xmlns="http://www.mo...
Hello guys / gals, First off, this is my first attempt at writing an add-on. That being said, I am attempting to write an add-on that makes some configuration changes and needs to restart Firefox in order to have the changes take effect. I am currently restarting Firefox using the following code: var boot = Components.classes...
Hi I'm building a Firefox extension that adds HTML elements to certain pages of a website. I want to have it insert a custom CSS file to style those elements. It works if I insert tags with the CSS right on the page, but that's a less than ideal solution. Is there anyway to get it to load and parse a CSS file, as if I used the ta...
I have an extension with a sidebar, when the user close the sidebar a method is called. I need to diference when the user close the sidebar than when he closes the browser. pseudo code: if (userClosedBrowser){ //do something }else if(userClosedSidebar){ //do something else } ...
I have an extension that can be placed on any toolbar (like the bookmarks, menu or status bars). In general, the context menu opens downward, but when placed on the status bar and Firefox is closed to the bottom of the screen, the context menu opens upward. I'd like to try reordering the context menu based on its up or down orientation, ...
For extension development, is there a javascript interactive shell , that has intellisense (shows what methods and properties an object has) ? Or is it possible to do this with the debugger that supports intellisense (maybe VS2008/intellij idea 9 ) ? ...
I hope you can help me with some code to monitor sent bytes (especially if a user is uploading a file in a web formular). For my extension a have a new window(id=rootWnd) in which is my . What I want to add now is the possibility to monitor all the traffic that is sent on a single request on this browser only, especially if a user start...
What is the use of firebug's "Open With Editor" function? ...
I'm writing a Firefox extension that needs to inject a css file into webpages. The css file is bundled with the extension, so I can access it using a chrome url chrome://extensionid/content/skin/style.css I'm trying to inject css like this when the page is loaded: var fileref = document.createElement("link"); fileref.setAttribute("re...
Is there a way to determine the type of a given font (TrueType, OpenType, Type 1, Bitmap) using javascript? ...
I have written a firefox addon with which user can add notes to the pages they are viewing. Users can also highlight the content they like on the page. My addon adds some css and javascript files to the page once the document is loaded. The extension is working properly except with some google results pages. The results sometimes appear ...
I wrote a firefox extension which simply re-formats a page using some JQuery. But, it's interfering with another extension that places a button on the header panel of the browser. Now that button doesn't display. Can some one point me in the right direction as to when this happens. This is my first fire-fox extension. Update: The...
Disregard my previous pre-edit post. Rethought what I needed to do. This is what I'm currently doing: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/nsIScriptableIO downloadFile: function(httpLoc) { try { //new obj_URI object var obj_URI = Cc["@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1"].getService(Ci...
I'm writing a small firefox addon to grab urls and send them to a site. What I want to do is be able to right click on a link (but not have to actually highlight it) and be able to click send and the links href value is grabbed and sent. The bit I'm having trouble with is detecting if the selected element is an anchor and grabbing it's h...
It is possible to call methods on a class whose interface is not exposed through an .idl file? Im my particular case, I'd like to use the @mozilla.org/gfx/fontmetrics;1 class, whose interface nsIFontMetrics doesn't have a correspondent .idl file. ...
I am working on a Firefox extension that will involve ajax calls to domains that would normally fail due to the same-origin policy set by Firefox (and most modern browsers). I was wondering if there is a way to either turn off the same-origin restriction (in about:config, perhaps) or if there was a standard lite-browser that developers ...
is there any firefox plugin to emulate slow internet connection or emulate unstable internet connection to test web app? ...
I am making an extension which should take a link as the user input only once. Then the entire extension keeps using that link on various functions in the JS file. When the user changes it, the value accessed by the js file also changes accordingly. I am using the following but it does not work for me var pref_manager = Components.class...