How to show the MSN like window in the bottom right corner of the screen using the Firefox add on(using XUL not html window) ...
Hi all, when I run my test in selenium, the newly opened firefox window is opened without my installed addons like xpathchecker. Is it possible to setup selenium so that it will use firefox with installed addons? ...
Are there any Firefox extensions for site-maintenance, specifically, for checking if all the links on the site are working? I'm currently using the LinkChecker addon, which works wonderfully, except that it can only do one page at a time. I'm looking for something more automated, which will check each link, then go down the link and ch...
Several times I got into conditions my scripts threw alerts in high rates. While there is an alert modal window open, you can't do any other action in the browser. I am looking to develop an add-on that will enable me to kill or suspend the "thread" the alert modal window belongs to. In What direction should I look? ...
Using Autohotkey, I’ve remapped a button to execute a loop. Every 30 seconds, PgDn will execute. In order to move on to the next tab, Ctrl-W (close tab) needs to happen. Is there way any to detect that the scrollbar as at the bottom? Once the “scrollbar-at-bottom” condition is met, PgDn will execute “close tab” instead. What language sho...
Hi All, i have created my own addon.and uploaded in server but when i m trying to download it from server its giving following error: Firefox could not install the file at http://abhimanyu.homeunix.com/Work/[email protected] because: Install script not found -204 thanx in advancd ..please guide me. ...
Do they have to be GPL or can they be something else? And if nothing is specified in the code are they considered to be GPL by default? ...
I am able to get path to User 'AppData/Local' folder as follows, appdatafile = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1"]. getService(Components.interfaces.nsIProperties). get("LocalAppData", Components.interfaces.nsIFile).path; Can anyone help me to get the 'AppData/LocalLow'...
I'm currently developing a firefox extension that monitores some ressource on the web and displays a notification for certain events. Currently I'm using the 'nsIAlertService' the following way: var alertsService = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/alerts-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIAlertsService); alertsService.showA...
The dust me selectors FireFox plugin identifies unused css selectors. For large css files and many files, the manual deletion of the unused selectors is time consuming. Is there a tool that can automate this? ...
I'm trying to write a Firefox extension that writes Firefox's history into the Windows system history, which ought to be useful for folks at work who use IE and Firefox to get work done. Adding pages to IE history appears simple enough (IUrlHistoryStg::AddUrl ought to do it). However, my experience with Firefox extensions is limited to ...
I'm trying to create a form with a few fields in XUL. I failed to find a way to create a numeric box and a datepicker with empty values. Textbox of type number has a default "0" value, I can change the default to different number, but I want the box to remain empty. The same goes for the datepicker element, I must specify a valid date, b...
Hi, Is it possible to write an extension that runs native, platform-dependent code? I'm an extension-newbie (what a phrase!) :), can you please point me towards good material on this subject? (good keywords to feed to Google are enough) (I would like to put a GtkMenu in Firefox) Edit: I started checking out the Gecko SDK, and it's a ...
After worked on many small addon i want to put those add on on my server so that people can download it and use it so that i can get the feedback from the people ..but when i am downloading it from my server(it is a xpi file) getting following error.. Firefox could not install the file at http://abhimanyu.homeunix.com/Work/abhiman_2k5...
I want to write a Firefox addon that could get the content of the address bar in real time, for example this addon will change every "a" to "A" just as the user pressed "a". The problem is that I couldn't find any way to do that in Javascript, is there a way to do it (getting the address bar content in real time)? ...
How to detect when a page is loaded (in any tab) with a firefox extension (automatically, no start-button or anything) (and display an alert message for example) ? ...
I'm writing a rudimentary screen scraper tool as an FF add-on (using DOM and xpaths). Currently, it runs fine. However, it also runs very slowly, as Firefox takes some time to request and download all the non-textual elements on each page (simply writing a separate application that parses the raw HTML is not feasible as some of the pages...
I am trying to create a Firefox extension that can run multiple XMLHttpRequests per page. The code is below (my main function calls the makeRequest on different URLs). My problem is that it always returns (at the "alert('Found ...')" for debugging purposes) the same URL instead of displaying the different responses. I think the issue is ...
I'm writing a firefox extension which displays a statusbarpanel containing some text. I want to change the background color of my statusbarpanel depending on the message. e.g. red background for errors. var pnl = document.getElementById("panelId"); pnl.label = "OK"; pnl.style.color = "white"; pnl.style.backgroundColor = "green"; All o...
There are times when looking at a computed style in Firebug, it's not evident how a value is computed or what its origins are. In some situations, the source is the browser's default. In web sites that are already constructed, it's not feasible to inject a css reset which will result in breaking all the pages. Is there a way in Firebug,...