firefox

How to create plugins/addons for firefox, IE and chrome

Hi I need to create plug-ins/add-ons for IE, firefox and chrome browsers for the following requirement: If the url requested is in a particular format/ matching a particular regex pattern, the plugin has to block the request and pop up and alert box. I have searched a lot but did not find anything helpful. For IE, I think we can creat...

During page load, when does Firefox autofill / autocomplete forms?

I'm troubleshooting a weird bug with a web app prototype and knowing when, precisely, Firefox autofills / autocompletes form fields would be useful. I have a small specialized audience and only need to target Firefox 3.6+. For this question, there is no server interaction beyond initial page load. This question is just about the order o...

How to silent default juggernaut alert in firefox ?

Hi, I'm using the Juggernaut plugin in a rails application. http://github.com/maccman/juggernaut_plugin I can't find how to disable the alert() when running my app in Firefox. Any Ideas ? ...

How to get rid of unwanted scrollbars in an SSRS reports within an Iframe and increased Windows display size?

We run an web-app with built-in SSRS reports, which are integrated via an Iframe. A user has set her display percentage to 150% in Windows 7. (Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Display). She is displaying the webpage with the report in Firefox and she has to scroll horizontally and vertically within the Iframe to view th...

Convince Firefox to parse HTML embedded in XML (after XSL is applied)

I have some XML files of this form: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="biomirror.xsl"?> <Thread> <Title> Some thread title </Title> <Posts> <Post> <Author> Me </Author> <Body> This is the post body, which <b>may</b> have embedded XHTML, in...

HTML 5 Input type "number" in Firefox

I am working on an app that is only used by a few people in-house, so I feel comfortable telling them to only use Firefox or Chrome, so I can use HTML5. I was working on a very simple feature: <style> input:invalid { background-color: red; } div.box { border-color:#000; border-width:thin; border-style:solid; } </style> <input t...

How to hide and show a CKEditor using jQuery?

The following code should allow to hide/show the CKEditor form <a onClick="$('#form1').hide();">Hide</a> <a onClick="$('#form1').show();">Show</a> <form action="sample_posteddata.php" method="post" id="form1"> <textarea id="editor1" name="editor1">blabla</textarea> <script type="text/javascript"> CKEDITOR.replace( 'editor1' ); <...

postMessage doesn't work in GreaseMonkey because it cannot acces contentWindow property on cross-domain iframe but in pure Firefox it will work

here are bunch of codes isolating this problem: create 3 files on local server: test.html <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" SRC="http://localhost/postmsg.js"&gt;&lt;/SCRIPT&gt; <iframe src="http://127.0.0.1/iframe.htm" id="iframe"></iframe> <div>Click anywhere on this page to see message from embedded iframe, which do not need to be on ...

firefox aint dispaying parse error

Hi,all of you, i am currently using ubuntu10.04 i were trying to run php script but every time i suffered through one common problem that when i did some error in php script it doesn,t display a error or any warning message on firefox(which i am using as browser) rather than showing a blank screen .My php.ini file configuration is as fo...

Firefox: Is there a way to suspend reflow during heavy DOM manipulations?

I need to do heavy DOM manipulations on the whole document of webpages in an Add-On I write. I would like to minimize the reflows so only one reflow happens for all my manipulations. Removing the body element, doing the manipulations and then inserting it again is not an option because this reevaluates all <script> elements. Currently I ...

Force latest version Silverlight app to be loaded in browser each time.

I notice that Firefox will not always load the latest version of a Silverlight app. I believe I can get my app to always be loaded by setting an 'expiration' in a cookie or something .. Where do I do this? (I have found that Firefox will work away happily for hours loading a new app each time and then the next time I try and load it wil...

any good new web-developer browser addons? (as in released in the last 6 months)

I used to be pretty ontop of the latest plugins but it's lost my attention recently (probably due to so many itentical blog articles called 'the best {num here} addons for firefox'). Last time i looked i found: firequery and firepicker which are now indespensible, so what's new? any hot new extensions that have found their way into y...

xml counting elements in a list does not work in firefox, can someone help?

Hi, I am writing some CSS to customise the display of an XML document. Basically I want to customise the display of child elements, and render them similar to HTML OL/UL/LI elements. My XML is structured like this: <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="style.css"?> <transcription> <turn> <spea...

Resizing iframe? - Webkit or Firefox

Hi folks, is it possible the proportions within an iframe? e.g. 100%, 50%, 25%, ... I would like to implement a "magnifying glass" for a webpage or iframe. It does not have to be implemented in Javascript within a website, but even a desktop solution would be great. Is this a possibility? or would it be incredibly complicated? Any ...

JQuery incompatibility problem (probably) in Firefox. Working in Chrome

<tr onmouseover="$('#actions').show();" onmouseout="$('#actions').hide();" > <td> <a onclick="showContacts();">Group Name</a> </td> <td> <span id="actions" style="display:none;"> <img src="../images/Delete-icon.png" onclick="del();"/> <img src="../images/add-16.png" onclick="loadpage('c...

Rendering of <h:commandbutton> in Firefox?

When we set disabled attribute for is set as true, in Firefox the button still looks like it is enabled but in IE it is working fine. Is it a limitation with Firefox or JSF. ...

Can I change a web page's scale?

Hi folks, I really would love to scale webpages down or up. Is there any way I can implement this? ...

Does Firefox synchronize requests for the same page?

I'm using Firefox 3.6.6. I have a PHP script called index.php with the following code: <?php sleep(20); die(time()); ?> I open two browser tabs, copy the URL into each of them, and then quickly hit enter in each tab. The first tab completes in just over 20 seconds. The second tab completes in just over 40 seconds. I do the same ex...

Mono problems with cert and mozroots

I am using this command on my mono VM sudo mozroots --import --sync It appears to be getting the cert from this site. I then try to connect to my ssl site and i get the exception that the cert is invalid. I use firefox and see the cert was issued in 2010. I looked at that file and see the last time its been updated was 2009-05-21 12...

redirecting with if statment based on cookie using header('location:') gives weird error in firefox

Hi. I am trying to redirect my visitors to for example http://localhost/site/test.php?lang=en_USbased on the country code in the cookie like this: if (isset($_COOKIE['country'])) { $country = $_COOKIE['country']; header('Location: test.php?lang=en_US'); if ($country == "NO"){ header('Lo...