Hi Experts, I used https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/tools/builder to build a simple test addon and "checked" Toolbar Button as a "Choose pre-built features" After installing this addon I am supposed to see a toolbar button in the firefox toolbar right ? Actually it is not happening. Instead if I go through View->Toolbar->cus...
What's the best Firefox extension for auto-populating forms while testing? Preferably one which allows you to not collect data from certain sites ... I only want to use it while testing. ...
I swear it was there last week. ...
Using Firefox, working on a Firefox extension, I continually get a javascript warning: reference to undefined property mySidebar.context.netProgress I have tried multiple ways of testing the value: if (mySidebar.context.netProgress === undefined) { And if (typeof mySidebar.context.netProgress == "undefined") { And if (!mySideba...
My extension needs to know that the tab is displaying something from the history rather than the latest loaded document. onload doesn't seem to be the right event. It doesn't always fire. ...
I wonder if it is possible to get values of certain preferences set in about:config using javascript? Incentive is to get value of preferences set in firefox addon i've created when user lands on addon front end. Basically, I'm trying to identify users landing on FE without asking them to login explicitly. ...
I need a way to process HTML before it's actually loaded and parsed by Mozilla. Is there any content listener that I can use in my Firefox extension? ...
Hi Guys; I haven't had any experience on building plugin's, need guidance on where to start specifically for firefox. ...
I am working on a javascript downloader and need to click a button. I can see the button and get it's values with web developer and dom inspector in FF. But when I try to: var freeUserForm = this.iFrame.contentDocument.getElementById('js_free-download_btn'); It returns null and when I view the page source the element is not there. So ...
I'm looking to create a browser plugin which would run in all of the major browsers, the only problem is that it seems I have to re-create the plugin in every browser. Is there some tool or framework or language I can write a plugin with where it will automatically work on all major browsers? All I need the button to do is scrape webpa...
Is it possible to put a background image, and/or modify the close button (X) in the sidebar's titlebar? I know I can set the text value of it by changing sidebartitle="" but is there any way to put an image in there? Basically I'd like to put my logo up there instead of inside the sidebar where real-estate is already limited. I'd also...
I need to read every url that loads into the navigation bar of firefox (either by type in or by clicking a link), pass them through a filter and decide if allow the url to open or not. I have some experience on firefox extensions but not with plugins. Do I need to do it using extensions or plugins for this? I currently have a BHO for ...
If I have a dialog and I want to center it on the screen, I can just do something like: var w = window.openDialog('chrome://syndicus/content/saveDialog.xul', '', 'chrome,dialog'); w.centerWindowOnScreen(); but if it's a modal dialog, then the openDialog function doesn't return until after the user has pressed something, so centerWindo...
Is there a way to override the use of maxVersion in firefox extensions so if a new firefox update comes out the extension will still work? I think this can be done by setting a new bool in about:config but I am trying to do it from the extension itself. ...
I downloaded this firefox sample extension from mozilla.org, I modified the file install.rdf and changed maxVersion value to 3.6.10 (also tried 3.6.*, 100 and *) and I added a new sting with name "hello world" and the value is the path where the folder of the sample extension is to HKCU (also tryed HKLM)/Software/Mozilla/Firefox/Extensio...
I am new to Mozilla extensions and i have been trying to build the "hello world" following this tutorial https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Building_an_Extension but unfortunately its not showing anything on the right of my status bar when i start Firefox with my development profile. I have checked everything many times and not found any m...
Here's the screenshot of my firebug installed in updated firefox. I've noticed that the firebug shows hidden nested tag in the html tab. I don't know what causes this to happen... Anyone?..Please help....Thanks... And here's the html mark-up.. ...
I'm using Firefox 3.6 and I think that there may be a compatibility issue with the Autoit script using #include FF.au3 and Mozrepl to close all of Firefox's open tabs with the addon TMP-TabMixPlus 0.3.8.4 installed. Below is the script I'm using and I would like to add something like this _FFTabClose("all", "index") I can't make it work!...
Not as evil as it sounds! This is for a corporate deployment tool. One of the things they want to do is to manage browser add-ons & plugins. UI wise, the client considers it inappropriate for a dialog to pop-up. What I need to do is copy out xpi files to the destination systems, but how do I trigger an install. install-global-exten...
Hi, I'm creating a prototype with Pencil an open source wireframing and mocking tool. I need to add a rich text box to my prototype and fill it with some sample text. The problem is that the box automatically resizes it self to around 200px and it won't budge from that width no matter what I do. I need to know how to set a custom width...