firefox

When I close a window opened with window.open() I get an error from Firefox

I am getting following error in firefox error console... Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIDOMWindowInternal.alert]" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: http://www.aboriginalsystems.com/test/popup.html :: anonymous :: li...

jQuery slideshow doesn't work on Firefox

Hi, I have this website and from today the picture slide show (using jQuery) stopped working on Firefox. Working fine on IE & Chrome. Any ideas? ...

How do I instruct Applescript to open a new Firefox window with a link?

my code looks like this tell application "Firefox" open location "http://rubyquicktips.tumblr.com/" end tell but if I have Firefox open, the link will open in a new tab. But I want the link to open in a new Firefox window. How can I accomplish that? ...

Can we find out if skype is installed or not on a machine thoough web app?

Hi, I am writing some web app, from web app I want to know if skype is installed or not on a machine from which web page is called. Is this possible? if yes how? It should work at least on Firefox, IE and chrome on windows. If it works on Linux and Mac then it will be great. Thanks in advance. ...

CSS looks bad in IE

I am having a CSS problem in IE This page looks fine in Firefox, chrome, opera....but on IE the "date bar" overlaps on the first <li> bar Here : http://www.animefushigi.com/latest-episodes CSS is as followed : #content h2.other-posts { height: 31px; font-size:12px; line-height: 31px; background: #2c2b2b; padding: ...

When click on tools div button (:active) works fine in Firefox but not in IE!

This code works fine in Firefox but not in IE, please give a solution only using CSS (No jquery or javascript), the problem begins when you click on the span inside the DIV! <style type="text/css"> .tools { cursor:pointer; } .tools { background-color:#aaa; padding:5px; } .tools span { background-color:green; color...

Firefox line-height issue with input fields

I have realized the problem before but I guess it didn't matter as much then as it did now. What I discovered is that Firefox has a default line-height value of 1.2 for input fields which can not be changed. At least in OSX, don't have Windows so I can't confirm it there. I did some experimenting and testing and there's just no way to ...

IE and Chrome jquery and css support problem

I developed little site that use: -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px #000; -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px #000; box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px #000; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; border-radius: 10px; for making shadow and radius on boxes. And $(".mainpage").show() Jquery function to show new content qhen user clic...

Alert box in Waitr Webdriver

I had a look here: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/JavaScript+Pop+Ups Every solution is for IE on Windows. I am using Firefox on Mac. Is there a way to click on OK of a JavaScript alert box? ...

JavaScript innerHTML causing css to disappear on <button>

I have a button tag with two spans inside; <button><span><span id="buttonText">Save</span></span></button> I'm trying to make it so that when you click the button the text changes so I have; onclick="document.getElementById('buttonText').innerHTML = 'Saving...'; this.style.className" Now funnily enough it works fine in IE8, but te...

Suppress native keyboard events in Firefox (select tag)?

I'm trying to suppress the normal keyboard events on Firefox's interpretation of the <select multiple="multiple"> box, but the methods I'm used to aren't working. YUI's stopEvent doesn't seem to actually suppress the effects of a keypress or keydown (or both). keyPressHandler = function (e) { YUE.stopEvent(e); }; YAHOO.util.Event....

feed problem in firefox and google

i have problem when creating feed. it's can be read by feedreader, and also shown in firefox but failed in google. this is my feed header: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Myfeed</title> <link>http://www.myfeed.com/&lt;/link&gt; <description>This is myfeedFeed</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon,...

Get the URL of the frontmost tab from Firefox on OS X?

I am looking for a GUI scripting workaround since I know this seems impossible in Firefox at the moment. I know this can be achieved using the following method: tell application "System Events" Keystroke "l" using command down Keystroke "c" using command down end tell tell me to activate set theUrl to the clipboard as te...

How to alternate moveStart in Firefox?

Does anybody know how to use range.setStart in the same way as range.moveStart works in IE? I'd like to implement backspace/delete in JS, something like this: range.moveStart('character',-1); range.deleteContents(); but in Firefox ...

Avoid page flickering when updating a YUI DataTable

I am using jlinq a library for extending linq to json and hence i filter my json data. Consider i have a json data that draws a yui datatable on page load with 100 rows. I am doing a clientside filter which will reduce my json data and i am now redrawing the same datatable. What happens is it works pretty well but with an annoying flicke...

New page opens in new window, not new tab in Firefox

I have a site consisting of a frameset with two frames. One of the frames opens a new document ala... var myWin= open("","ImgWindow","status=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes"); myWin.document.open(); My Mozilla Firefox 3.0.19 is configured to open new pages in tabs, not windows. Firefox opens the document in a new Window...

Plugin to automate multiple searching?

Is there a Firefox plugin I can use to help automate multiple searches? i.e. I have a list of keyword combinations and I want to automatically paste each combination into a form like below and open each search in a new tab http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search The actual website I'm using is ISI Web of Science. It has a sim...

Problem with PHP sessions in WordPress with non-default permalinks

Hi, I'm experiencing a weird problem that occurs when I change the default permalinks in WordPress. When I place this code in my functions.php file in my theme (or even in the root index.php file in WordPress) and navigate between and updating a few pages (for example the /about page), my counter often runs twice. This problem is repr...

Loading XML from string in javascript works fine in IE 8, fails in firefox

I have an XML file which was generated by serialising a C# object. I want to parse this XML using javascript. When i try to load a string as XML using javascript, it works fine in IE 8, but fails in Firefox. This is the code i am using if (window.DOMParser) { parser = new DOMParser(); xmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(stringValue, 'tex...

Tweet Button and Facebook Like Button appearing below menu bar in FF

My problem is that I have a menu bar with z-index 100, and two elements of that bar with z-index 1000 (Sorry, in the code, the z-indexes are actually higher numbers butt different by a factor of 10... i realize this is bad practice, but i havent changed it yet because there are a few pieces connected). In firefox, the tweet button and f...