firefox

Programmatically open and close firefox

I need to open Firefox from my console app, do stuff with it, and then shut it down a few minutes later. I'm using Process.Start("firefox.exe", "myurl"); to open firefox, which isn't a problem. The issue is with closing it. The CloseMainWindow() function usually works, but it doesn't work if firefox has a modal window open (like a "do...

Slight Gap Between List Items in an Unordered List

Hi, Hoping someone can assist, I am using an unordered list where the actual list items have a rounded rectangular background image. My problem is, there seems to be a slight gap between the list items in Firefox but in Google Chrome, there is no gap. If I change the css line-height value, it corrects in Firefox but then breaks google...

javascript/jssh issue firefox 4.0b1

I built jssh for FF 4.0b1 and packaged as an xpi and installed it to my browser, when running javascript that checks tags for a certain phrase in the onclick or onfocus events I am getting an NS_ERROR that says component not available has anyone seen this happen as of yet? It only happens when the tag is either not the first one on the...

Building a Form that allows the Browser to Prepopulate with the Username/Email & Password

Hello, Users are complaining about my site, saying that they Sign In form is "not allowing the Firefox and Chrome browsers to "remember password". You should allow people to remember the password in their browser--it will come in handy in the future on future visits." Any ideas why this would be the case? ...

Firefox contentEditable div focus issues

Hello, I am using contentEditable div tags on my website and I have noticed a weird issue when using Firefox. Here is example source code: <html> <head> </head> <body> <div contentEditable="true" style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; height:200px; width:200px; border-style:solid; border-color:black...

How to Prevent Page Change when using Firebug

I want to inspect the request that will change window.location or whatever it may be using to change the url. I don't know where in the code it is changing the url so I can't put a breakpoint in there. How can I use Firebug to allow Ajax requests but prevent the url from changing? Or how can I otherwise inspect the request that will c...

Can you get a list of Firefox add-ons programmtically

I spent a fair amount of time trying to determine why my view of a site didn't match a clients, after looking at the cache etc. we determined the problem to be with one of the add-ons (Adblock Plus in this particular case). It would have been much simpler if we could have had an easy way to query what add-ons were installed, and ideally ...

How to make a web page render LIKE it is running in IEs Compatibility Mode even though it isn't?

I have been pulling my hair out over the past few days with a div in that does not stretch across the entire width of the screen like it should. Works fine in Firefox, but in IE (IE8 to be specific) it will not render correctly unless it is in Compatibility Mode. If the page renders correctly in Compatibility Mode there has to be some ...

How can javascript work perfectly in FireFox, but not work at all in other browsers?

I use FireFox as my main browser, especially when testing out my site, Avoru. However, when checking to see if my code was working properly across other major browsers (Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari), I found that none of my custom javascript seemed to work. Although the functions and code were clear in the page source, using typeof r...

how to intercept firefox events in .net?

i'm using watin,to control a firefox browser,but there's no support for events like page load,& progress.. i need a way to expose this events through .net,i tried a bit with xpcom from geckofx but with no vain due to lack of documentation,, thanx in advance ...

@media print {color#999999;} not recognized in Fire Fox.

It seems to me that Firefox doesn't correctly handle an instruction in a CSS file. I might be wrong, the I'd like to correct me on this. Here's the relevant portion of my CSS: @media print { div.entry a:link { text-decoration:none; color:#999; } } When I print my page, the links are printed in black, regardless of the val...

Firefox Error on RtlpWorkerCallout

What would cause FireFox to crash with a signature of RtlpWorkerCallout, crash reason = EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION? I'm trying to figure out what feature or plugin would be involved. The same problem seems to be causing trouble with IE, but not with Chrome. ...

Newly deployed website (in new environment) renders slowly in IE only

We have a brand new deployment environment for testing asp.net website builds. I’ve deployed the latest version of the website to this new server (decent specification, by no means a slouch) but when I hit the new pages in IE they render horrendously slow, taking about a minute to render the page. However, in Firefox and other browsers i...

Gesture Firefox on Mac: Swipe back tiggers Edit-->Find instead of 'Back'

Whenever I use the swipe gesture to the left for browsing back like in Chrome or Safari implements it, Firefox does not browse back instead opens the search/find dialog. The about:config shows which should be fine: browser.gesture.swipe.left; Browser:BackOrBackDuplicate The swipe to the right for 'Forward' however works. How can I...

Add bookmarklets to firefox in command line

Hi I'm trying to add bookmarklets to firefox from the command line. I'm editing bookmarks.html to insert the proper bookmarks but it doesn't seem to give me the proper result (the file is edited but the bookmarklets don't appear). Can you help? cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default lineNum=`grep -n -A10 PERSONAL_TOOLBAR_FOLDER bookmarks.htm...

Float left in a div does not work in IE7 but does in Firefox and IE8

When I have three divs that all have float left I want the sections to expand or contract based on how long the data inside them is. For instance, if the 1st address is very long I want the 1st box to expand and push the 2nd one over. In Firefox it is doing this but in Internet Explorer it requires a width to look right. In IE7 it do...

FireFox overflow bug#550882: (overflow:hidden) to (overflow:visible) with script = no scrollbars!

I ran into a problem recently and found out that this is a bona-fide bug in FireFox 3.6.x. What happens is this: If you set up your page's initial CSS overflow property on the body tag to be: hidden, THEN you change the style value via a script (like javascript) to:visible.... FireFox does NOT render the scrollbars on screen. You can st...

Document for CSS differences between IE and FF

Is there a layman document out there describing what are the differences in rendering CSS styles between IE and FF (or IE and the rest of the world) that is more straightforward than quirksmode.org, which is very specification-centric? for example, I just wasted a lot of time figuring out one difference in rendering tables with different...

jQuery animations not working in Firefox

For some reason animation methods are not working in Firefox. Even basic functions like show() do not work. They seem to work perfectly normal in IE 8. Has anyone else come across this or can explain why this is happening? Edit: Example code - $(document).ready(function() { $(".form_error").show(); }); The css for .form_error se...

How to set "no-style" as default in FireFox

Hi everyone, in FireFox 'options' => 'content', I can turn off JavaScript and image loading by default. By I don't see any places to turn off page style by default. What I want to do is like automatically selecting 'view' => 'Page Style' => 'No Style' when every new page is loaded. Thanks. ...