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FF extension: a popup with dynamic menuitems, with each menu item having another popup

I am building an extension that has a popup whose elements are constructed by a function call everytime the mouse hovers over the popup option. I am able to achieve this. Now I need to have a popup for each of the menu item (inside the original popup) which is not dynamic though. I have this code, but it does not work: var myMenuPopup =...

Updating Embedded Video in Firefox

I am working on a Videos page where my intention is to load a video with the page but by clicking a link, the original video will be updated and replaced with the corresponding video. For instance, if video1 loads with the page and the user clicks to view video2, the original div's innerHTML holding video1 is updated to play video2. No...

Open 2 Firefox Shortcuts on 2 different screens.

Hey Everyone. Is is possible to have 2 Firefox shortcuts on your desktop and when you open them they open to a designated different screen (new window/different screen)? I have a 3 screen set up, Win XP and using FF3.6. If no way of coding it, maybe a product that will do it? I appreciate your time. Thanks. ...

How to build Firefox extention to intercept HTTP requests and responses?

Hi, how do I insert a listener to Firefox http requests and responses, so that I popup a window with the address requested and the response body? Note: I have to do this building an extension to Firefox. I need a button to activate or disable the feature. For every request, I need to popup a window with an "Ok" button to allow the r...

How to prevent Firefox from putting shadows around input boxes which have had their background colour changed?

Hi there, I'm creating a set of input fields and using javascript's .style.backgroundColor = "red" to change the colour of any invalid fields. In Chrome, there is no problem. However, in Firefox, as soon as I touch the backgroundColor (even if I set it to white) then I get these strange shadow effects. Does anyone know what's going o...

Firefox all but freezes during large file upload; Ajax progress bar infeasible; IE6 works fine

I want to provide a progress bar for my users who upload very large files. I did some reading and implemented what should be a pretty straightforward solution: I have a <form> element that contains an file input element; its target is set to the ID of a hidden iframe. On the server side, there's some Spring magic that attaches an obje...

Firefox extension js object initialization

Note: this is about Firefox extension, not a js general question. In Firefox extension project I need my javascript object to be initialized just once per Firefox window. Otherwise each time I open my window a new timers will be engaged, new properties will be used, so everything will start from scratch. hope example below will demysti...

How can I write a script to firefox that works with the adressbar?

I want to write a script to firefox that in the moment I start to write address in the addressbar it change the language to the one I'll choose (in the add-on).How do I do it? ...

popup with dynamic menuitems, each menuitem is another popup

I am building an extension that has a pop up whose elements are constructed by a function call everytime the mouse hovers over the popup option. I am able to achieve this. Now I need to have a popup for each of the menu item (inside the original popup) which is not dynamic though. I have this code, but it does not work: for (var m=0; m ...

Jquery show() not working in FF

I have issues with FF & Jquery .show(). my website shows an embedded map from google in clicking a link.i have got a javascript function that handle this, in safari it works great.FF won't show the map. this is the js. function: function mostraPagina(nome){ if (nome='mappa'){ $('#mappa').load('contenuti/mappe/mappa_thiene.ht...

jQuery combobox validation in Firefox 3.6 problem...

Hi guys, I have an awkward problem concerning jQuery validation component working with html select element. This issue is present only on the latest version of Firefox browser (3.6) When I try to click the combobox, the list of available values does not expand... I guess there is some issue with the flow of javascript events... Does an...

Firefox Extension Port Listener

Hey, I'm trying to get an extension to wait for a xml message from another program over an internal port. Just something like waiting for a single UTF-8 string that has something like: <?xml version="1.0"?> <status received="true" state="started"></status> and <?xml version="1.0"?> <status received="true" conn="closed"></status> I...

Is there some module for Python that works with Firefox ?

Is there some module for Python that tells me when some page finish the loading, or something else on Firefox? ...

Firefox DOMParser problem

For some reason DOMParser is adding some additional #text elements for each newline \n for this url http://rt.com/Root.rss ...as well as many other RSS I've tried. I checked cnn/bbc feeds, they don't have newlines and dom parser handling them nicely. So I have to add the following before parsing it var xmlText = htmlText.replace(/\n[ ...

Embedded quicktime video pause on click how to prevent?

I embedded a quicktime video in firefox. It works, but i would like to prevent the users to stop the video by clicking on it with the left mouse button. Reading the apple documentation i didn't find any answear. I came up with a workaround, i just put an almost invisible div over the whole video. The workaround works in firefox for os X,...

Why don't web browsers have built in validators?

As far as I know there is no web browser with built in validators for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Developing web pages without validation is like using a compiler that doesn't do syntax analysis. Even Firefox with its excellent plugins aimed at developers like Firebug lacks plugins for CSS and JavaScript validation. Wouldn't it be useful t...

css3 won't validate in w3c valdidator

-moz and -webkit won't validate in w3c css validator, should I not use it? or just use the css3 attribute without the -moz or -webkit ? ...

XUL: how to render special html entities(copy, trade, deg...)?

If I just put in label value or anywhere else &trade; or &deg; it will give me parse error. ...

jquery simplemodal close wont work in firefox

I am using jquery.simplemodal 1.3.5 (i tried older versions) the close button doesnt close the modal in firefox (i tried IE and it work fine) this is the test page i am using: <html> <head> <title>Untitled Page</title> <style> #simplemodal-overlay { background-color:#000; cursor:wait; } #simplemodal-container a.modal...

Firefox, prevent rendering between javascript statements.

I'm trying to create some kind of zoom around the mouse cursor feature on my website which ultimately runs these two lines (+ the same for height/scrollTop). canvas.style.width = someValue; canvas.parentNode.scrollLeft = someOtherValue; The problem is that in firefox(3.6) the page is re-rendered directly after the first row has been e...