I hate to just come out and ask a question I've made no progress on but the simple reality is that I am not that good with javascript and only able to stumble my way through jquery. But here's what I am attempting to do. I am part of a play by post RPG site that recently has changed its calendar system to something that is a bit more f...
Designing some extensions that will continuously update a dataset that is used to render additional information on webpages. ...
I am working on a firefox addon, and when I use % for a menu label and tooltip the addon doesn't work (doesn't show up on firefox). I am using the % in a .dtd file like this: <!ENTITY addonName.menuX "%09 (Tab)"> And in the .xul file like this: <menuitem class="menuitem-iconic" image="chrome://addonName/skin/image.png" tooltiptext="...
I have just modify a snippet from this page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/Progress_Listeners But with this code only STATE_START and STATE_STOP were fired. The rest did not fire at all var target = this; const STATE_START = Components.interfaces.nsIWebProgressListener.STATE_START; const STATE_R...
Hi, I developed a Firefox plugin called tellurium-ide for the tellurium automatically web testing framework. Details about the plugin can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/aost/wiki/TelluriumIde080RC1 The plugin works fine for Linux and Windows, but it has problem to work in Mac OS X. In Mac OS X, the cursor keeps spinning once t...
I am trying to create a Firefox extension that uses a flex application. I have tried to wrap it in XUL types ( and ) and I have no preference as to which one I use... whichever works. The problem is that whenever I use a relative path (access through chrome:// or mySWF.html) the flash fails to load. I have a method to search for the a...
I have Google'd this nine-ways-to-Sunday, but can't seem to come up with anything that fits my needs... I'm looking for a Firefox extension (and or Eclipse plug-in) that does the "opposite" of what SitePoint's handy Dust-Me Selectors does. Briefly, I want to be able to go to a page and get a summary of all the class and id attribute val...
I'm one of the developers of TryAgain, an add-on for Firefox that keeps trying to load a webpage when the server cannot be reached. A user recently suggested having the add-on check if the website you're trying to reach is down, or just blocked for the local machine. I was therefore hopeful that there might be a website similar to downf...
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to use a preference (the ones you can access by going to about:config) in an XUL file. I'll have a few developers working on this and we all have different "local" hosts configured. So I'd like to make things easier for everyone by making the "example.local" part belos come from a preference setting (stri...
I've seen an XUL-based application recently that supposedly works on the desktop. Isn't XUL the Firefox language? I thought it wouldn't work on anything other that Firefox and certainly wouldn't work as a desktop application. Can someone who knows more about XUL confirm its compatibility with other browsers (IE, Chrome, etc.) and if it ...
I don't like searching with Google while logged into Gmail because I don't want Google to have that data about me even if I have web history disabled. I've noticed that after signing out of Gmail they still leave quite a few cookies. Like the paranoid person I am I always delete cookies after using Gmail. Am I wasting my time? Would they...
I'd like to create an addon for Firefox that would enable me to search a particular site by selecting text on one site and choosing to search another site by selecting that option in the context menu. I already have an extension like that in my browser - the Wikipedia Lookup extension. Basically, I want the exact same functionality but...
How do I debug, like console.log(); the Preferences Page of the Extension? Thanks ...
Hello, I want to use xpcom to connect Mozilla Firefox to a serial port. The final result should be an xpi addon that can be installed on various environments (cross-platform Windows/Linux with Firefox 3.*). Where should I start? I have found an example here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1083965&start=0 , b...
I have a firefox addon which works for firefox version 3.0 onwards. However, a particular feature works only for FF 3.5 onwards. I wanted to check from my addon's code that if the FF version is less than 3.5 then I shall disable the particular feature. Can someone please tell me how can I find out FF version from my addon's code? Thank...
I came upon this article on using jQuery in Firefox add ins. I have it working just fine but am having a CSS issue. How in the world do you get a CSS file into the current browser document? I've done the obvious: $mb = jQuery.noConflict(); doc = window.content.document; jQuery('body', doc) .append('<link rel="stylesheet" href="ch...
Hello everybody, I would like to know if there is any functionality in the Gecko SDK/NPAPI that would allow me to restrict a plugin-usage to restricted domains only. Exactly like SiteLock for IE does with ActiveX components. Any similar implementation in NPAPI, for example? ...
I am looking for a firefox extension solution to intercept a firefox dictionary action: When a user chooses the action "add word to dictionary" i want to modify that word before it gets inserted into the user's down dictionary file persdict.dat . Is this possible? And how can it be done? Is there anything special i need to take care o...
I want to listen on an event (clipboard event ?) in order to alter the clipboards content. Actually i did not find out how i can grab the clipboards content after it has been filled (using ctrl+c). I tried to redefine the shortcut ctrl+c, but this way i only get what was in the clipboard before i pushed the shortcut. Where do i need t...
What happens when I call setTimeout in a firefox extension? Is there ever a condition in which multiple callbacks can run simultaneously? My firefox extension contains an array of URLs that I want to take screenshots of. My extension opens 5 tabs, and sets the URLs of these tabs to be the first 5 URLs in the array. Once a page finish...