firefox

callback execution order in jQuery getJSON

I'm trying to implement a iGoogle like dashboard interface using widgets that get their content from other sites using JSONP calls. The problem is that if the first widget that calls the "$.ajax" takes 8 seconds to get the content back, it seems that the callbacks of the other widgets will only be called after the callback of the first ...

CSS Issue in Firefox/IE

I'm working on a site's CSS and am running across an issue with the body margin section. If you look at this in Firefox and then IE, you can see the line isn't lined up right in Firefox, but it is in IE. (In the black header section). Here is what I have for the body tag, It's something with the margin and I can't figure it out: body ...

How to Detect an Event Coming from the Firefox History Dropdown Box

How to detect an event coming from the Firefox history dropdown box? I need to distinguish between the enter key simply pressed on input field or on item from his native history dropdown box. The reason is that I would like to call custom submit button (not first one, which is default) on the enter key pressed on any input field. But r...

How to delete images from memory in a browser

Hi all. Is it possible to delete some images from the browser (firefox2) memory using javascript? By doing this, I want to save some precious browser memory and let my web app to work better. I guess that if possible, it will be something like this: delete (document.images[7]); document.images[7].src = null; document.images[7] = n...

Can I disable FF3 back button cache?

I found out that when pressing back button it gets previous page from browser cache even if I send following headers: Test1.aspx Server ASP.NET Development Server/9.0.0.0 Date Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:49:40 GMT X-AspNet-Version 2.0.50727 Location Test2.aspx Cache-Control no-cache, no-store Pragma no-cach...

benchmark test for browsers also depends on the number of extensions installed?

I did a test in chrome and firefox, chrome with no extension, firefox with a dozen. The test is form goolge (perhaps is optimized for chrome?), here and the result was: Firefox: 118 Chrome: 2479 So I wonder: the benchmark is also influenced by the installed extensions or chrome is really so much higher than Firefox in performa...

Inline base64 encoded link not working in Firefox

I have this link: <a href="data:application/pdf;base64,JVBERi0x...KJSVFT0YK">PDF</a> In Safari on MacOsX, clicking the link instantly opens the PDF. In Firefox 3.6.2, it doesn't. When I choose Download, it saves it as "u7WYuJME.pdf(2).part", which is a valid PDF file. When I choose "Open with Preview", it downloads it but does not ope...

Firefox 3.6 - location.href not working in JSP

I have JSP page with method = POST and action='/mydir/mypage/nextpage' I have a button: <button title='Continue' onclick="this.form.perform.value='cancelButton'; javascript:doCloseWindow();">Continue</button> and JavaScript method like: function doCloseWindow(){ location.href = "https://abc.xyz.com/mydir/?param=123"; ...

Why would certain browsers request all pages on my ASP.Net Web site twice?

Firefox is issuing duplicate requests to my ASP.Net web site. It will request a page, get the response, then immediately issue the same request again (well, almost the same -- see below). This happens on every page of this particular Web site (but not any others). IE does not do this, but Chrome also does this. I have confirmed that the...

Why is this javascript code not running in FireFox

Hi All, <div> <span id="NewWindowDetectionStarter1"> <a id="ctl03" href="javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions(&quot;ctl03&quot;, &quot;&quot;, false, &quot;&quot;, &quot;Home.aspx&quot;, false, true))"></a> <a id="ctl04" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl04','')"></a> </span> </div> <scri...

How to Increase the time till a read timeout error occurs?

Hi all. I've written in PHP a script that takes a long time to execute [Image processing for thousands of pictures]. It's a meter of hours - maybe 5. After 15 minutes of processing, I get the error: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: The URL which I c...

java SecurityException when running applet on firefox, ubuntu

I would like to run an applet on firefox 3.6 on ubuntu 10.4. and I start firefox with sudo on command line to see the java console output. My appplet code changes some policies and it works fine on windows. But on ubuntu I get this error: java.lang.SecurityException: Changing the SecurityManager is not allowed. at net.sourceforge.jn...

Flex Builder : How to use a specific firefox profile for launching?

Hi, I tried doing the above by giving the following params in Window -> Preferences -> Web Browser -> Edit -> Parameters : -P devpro -no-remote But whenever I run an application from flex builder, it asks me to choose a profile. I also tried: -P "devpro" -no-remote -P %devpro% -no-remote -P "devpro" -P %devpro% None of them worked...

Firefox Add-on. Install, update, uninstall manually.

My application installs a Firefox add-on (by copying an .xpi to [FF_inst_dir]\extensions). This application periodically has updates (.xpi with new version). How it can be installed correct (how do I use update.rdf)? ...

Selenium Webdriver (FirefoxDriver)

Hey all, I'm using Selenium Webdriver to do some robottesting. Since some functions appear to only work in Firefox, I'm obligated to use Firefoxdriver. Now and then, something weird happens. Starting up te driver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get(URL); gets firefox to startup but not to go to the specified url. The st...

Why does Firefox re-request unmodified scripts?

I'm testing a PHP function that generates tags for scripts, images and stylesheets, based on just the filename and internal variables that tell it things like 'image files live in the /images directory`'. It appends timestamps to bust the browser cache, spits out image dimensions as needed, etc. (You can read about it and see the code he...

Why is it that on IE7, my javascript file does not work?

No functions get called, and I can't even alert. It is just an external javascript file. However, everything works on Firefox, Chrome and IE8. I am using Django/python backened to serve this file. Is this a known bug from IE7? ...

Is there any addon that can make javascript execute before the page loads??

Well, greasemonkey can execute users script but only after the page loads fully. Is there any script that can take user script (javascript) and executes it before the page downlaods any elemts. for instance, As soon as the HTML file is downloaded, the user script should execute so that i can prevents the download of embedded elements lik...

How to get the URL of the current firefox tab

I am creating a firefox extension. I want to get the URL of the current "top" firefox tab. How can I access this information? ...

Calling a webservice in javascript

I am trying to make a Firefox extension which will use a webservice. I was looking online to find a way to do this. I was wondering if someone could explain what the following objects/methods do: service.useService(___, ___); service.<Service Name>.callService(); If there is an alternative that does not include these objects, I would...