Topic: Programmatically manipulate web browser in OS X 10.4.x+ Tiger/Leopard. Subjects: Webkit, Safari, Firefox, APIs, Applescript, Automator, Javascript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, OS X, Tiger Goal: Collect/Read/Extract URLs from Safari into text (Ruby on Rails code) file. Note: A solution that uses FF would be very appreciated, too. I use Sa...
Printing button is not shown in the report toolbar when they are opened in FireFox. Is there any solution for print button not showing in FireFox ? Can it be enabled or there is no workaround for this? ...
What version of javascript does Google Chrome support in relation to Mozilla Firefox? In other words, does Chrome support javascript 1.6, 1.7, or 1.8 from Firefox or some combination of them? ...
Is there a way to force IE or FF into a handheld mode for testing "@media handheld" stylesheets? Or, do I have to publish the pages and test with my Blackberry? I'd prefer to test this without pushing the application to the live server as the application is already in use. Any ideas for me? ...
Hi, Is anyone familiar with a way to browse and edit/delete saved form entries in Firefox? I know I can: Delete all form data, using the Clear Private Data dialog; Delete specific entries in a form using shift-delete when the cursor is over them (*). What I want is a way to see all saved entries for a specific keyword, edit them, a...
Where does Firefox store cookies and in what format are they stored ...
My Firefox 3.0.4 does not display non-existing images at all, or it displays the image alt as plain text (if available). This way I would have no idea that there is supposed to be an image there. Does anyone know if there is a way to make it work like IE/Opera? (ie. display a box even if the image file doesn't exists) - plugin or anythi...
Beloved smart folk of SO: I'm building some functional tests for a web site using Selenium, and I'm stuck on a bizarre browser issue where the page never seems to finish loading. The status bar reads either "Transferring data from..." or "Read...". Since the page never finishes loading, my selenium tests timeout. The issue only seems...
When working with Silverlight, I've noticed that Firefox will cache the XAP file, so if I do an update, a user may be stuck using an outdated version. Is there a way to force the browser to either re-download the XAP file every time, or maybe only force it to after an update has been published? Or is there a setting in the Silverlight ...
We have a JavaScript construct that will play .wav files within Firefox on Windows and MacOSX, but it does not work for Red Hat Linux. What extension do I need? ...
In Firefox and Safari, pages that are centered move a few pixels when the page is long enough for the scrollbar to appear. If you navigate through a site that has long and short pages, the page seems to "jump" around. IE7 tends to leave the scroll bar visible all of the time but disables it when the page is not long enough. Since the ...
I am creating a Firefox Extension...what would be the javascript to open a URL in the current tab from a menuitem? e.g. in my overlay.xul file i have the following line: <menuitem label="Visit homepage" oncommand="window.location='http://www.somepage.com'"/> but in firefox, when i click on the menu item, it opens the URL but it sc...
I am trying to write a JavaScript script to add to greasemonkey that adds a button after an element. The onClick for this button should copy the parents element text to the keyboard. I have seen plenty of examples that copy already selected text to the clipboard such as this: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- Begin functio...
Hi, Due to current limitations on getting DIV tags to work well across browser platforms for the particular liquid layout I desire, I have opted to use a combination of Tables and DIVs for layout. That being said, a couple of issues remain. The FIRST issue is that in Firefox, my table row height for my footer is being rendered diffe...
I have Firefox as my default browser on my dev machine and when I start debugging from visual studio Firefox launches as I would expect and all the attributes of the experience are the same as IE except for one thing - when I close the browser. When using IE, when I close the browser visual studio will automatically shut down the debugge...
Has anyone encountered the following problem: I have IIS7 running on my computer. On that same computer, I open IE7 and the website works (http://localhost/web.site/Default.aspx). Put that same url in Firefox 3 and I get the welcome screen of IIS7, a big image with IIS7 in the middle and 'Welcome' in several different languages. Clicking...
I'm a bit flabbergasted at this, so I'm wondering if any SOers have encountered it before. I have an essentially flat page with a number of input=text seeded in the markup with default values of say A,B,C,D,E in order. The markup looks like this in view source: <td class="action invoice"> <a href="#foo">Toggle Invoice</a> <div clas...
I have an ActiveX plugin that we need (if possible) to run in Firefox. Is there a plugin (or other way) for Firefox that will allow this? ...
I'm stuck on what appears to be a CSS/z-index conflict with the YouTube player. In Firefox 3 under Windows XP, Take a look at this page: http://spokenword.org/program/21396 Click on the Collect button and note that the pop-up <div> appears under the YouTube player. On other browsers the <div> appears on top. It has a z-index value of 999...
Hi, I've created a login submit form in HTML but for some reason user/password autocompletion does not work like I expect in firefox. This is what happens in Firefox: I give username and password and click on the login button Firefox prompts me if I would like to remember the password. I press 'remember' and login works. (I made sure...