firefox

Adobe Reader plugin eating certain keydown events only in Firefox 3.6

I seem to have exactly the same problem as this person: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/618752 He also has example code that purports to demonstrate the problem. Basically, I have a webpage consisting of 2 frames: in the right hand frame, a PDF, which my users all view in Adobe Reader (generally 9.3), and a left hand frame which contains...

Script to automate URL opening in multiple tabs in Firefox or Opera from a text file

I have a text file with lots of links-each line has a link (i.e the separator is '\n'). i want to write a script so that each link opens in a different tab in Firefox or Internet explorer. How can I do this? I'm on Windows 7 ...

Overcome non-cacheability of pages on Firefox

I'm trying to build an extension to Firefox to get a page from a web server and put it in the browser's cache, so that when the user asks for that link, it'll be retrieved directly from the cache, instead of asking to the original web server. But I'm having trouble with some pages which put headers to avoid cacheability, such as "Cache-...

How can I find a user's GEO Location using ASP.NET?

How can I get hold of a user's GEO location within my ASP.NET application? I've noticed on browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome, I (as the user) am prompted as to whether or not to allow the site to have access to my location. How can I achieve a similar thing to this? ...

First Two out of five images don't get onClick, but only in Chrome

Observe the following painfully simple construction: <div id="home_thumbnails"> <img onClick='loadFeature(0);' src='image_1.jpg'> <img onClick='loadFeature(1);' src='image_2.jpg'> <img onClick='loadFeature(2);' src='image_3.jpg'> <img onClick='loadFeature(3);' src='image_4.jpg'> <img onClick='loadFeature(4);' sr...

How to get notified about IFRAME appended dynamically and loaded?

I need to add an ability to a Firefox extension to handle cases when IFRAME elements are being added dynamically. Is there a way to get notified when IFRAME document is loaded in such a case? For example: <html> <head> <title>iframe test</title> <script type="text/javascript"> function addIFrame() { var ifrm = document.creat...

Javascript Event Key Property Mixup in FF

This is a weird bug, indeed. In Chrome (6.0.472.62, latest) and IE8 (at least), this behaves correctly, but in FF (3.6.9, latest) both the click event and enter event register, making it hard to discern between the behavior. Check out this code: http://jsfiddle.net/QmkwY/1/, click on the search box in the "results" and just hit enter. T...

Cross Browser Debugging between Firefox and Safari (or Chrome)

I've noticed that Safari and Chrome behave the same when it comes to HTML and CSS. However, there are differences between Firefox and Safari (and hence, Chrome as well). Sometimes things can look great in Firefox, but the CSS misbehaves in Safari and Chrome. The cause of the mis-behaviour can be attributed to "anything" (as opposed t...

php plug-in for developers on firefox?

Hi All, Is there any plug-in for firefox that is usefull for PHP development? ...

Why this XPath sentence is wrong for Firefox?

click(new XPath("/HTML[1]/BODY[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/SPAN[1]/SPAN[2]/#text[1]")); ..or var foo = document.evaluate("/HTML[1]/BODY[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/DIV[1]/DIV[2]/DIV[1]/DIV[1...

error while traversing xml in javascript

i am using below code to traverse xml in javascript i am able to get value using x[i].childNodes[0].text; function in IE but not in firefox. please tell me what should i use so that it work with all. function loadXMLDoc(dname) { if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); } else { xhttp = new...

firefox disable/enable add-on in a specific page

Hi, I'm programming a system to work with in firefox, based on high end javascript. The users sometimes uses add-ons that conflict with the system. Is there a way i can control from my web-site to disable or enable specific firefox add-ons in a page? Thanks. ...

Limit a firefox extension to a specific domain

I would like to write a firefox extension. This extension is not a generic extension but work specifically for a domain where I need to highlight specific html components. How should I do that? I just want the js loaded when the user is browsing a specific domain. My current overaly.js is basically empty (generated by the Extension Wiz...

Mozilla Extension - tracking data per opened tab.

In a firefox extension I'm temporarily saving data in javascript to show in a sidebar. When a tab is selected, I want to change the text in the sidebar to the right data. What is the best object to use as the "Identifier" for each tab? I'm trying to use the tab object. However, I'm stuck then on how to associate the data to the tab. ...

Firefox XUL: Auto loading toolbar button

I'm fairly new to JS and XUL so please bear with me if this is a noob query :-) I am developing an extension for firefox which performs a custom action when a toolbar button (created by me) is clicked. I have been able to create the button using mozilla examples but what I have seen is that even when the extension is installed success...

Double Postback from Firefox in asp.net application

Firefox is causing double PostBacks in my asp.net application. IE and Safari do not cause the problem. I have a form for users to fill out that is inside the second View shown in a MultiView. The MultiView is inside an UpdatePanel so the Views are updated via partial page postbacks. Once they are presented the form they hit submit and t...

How to get the coordinates of the end of selected text with javascript?

Hi, My problem is similar to this, but I need a way to get the coordinates of the right side of the selection with Javascript in Firefox. I made a small example to show what I mean: The code I got from the other post is the following: var range = window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0); var dummy = document.createElement("span"); range....

Firefox css cursor property in anchor tag

In Firefox 3.6.10 and 3.6.7 when a page is first loaded and the mouse pointer is over a link it turns into a hand. But when I set the anchor tag cursor style to auto by javascript and hover the mouse pointer over that same anchor tag now it shows as it was over pure text. In IE8 and Chrome it works as expected (by me). Do I understand i...

Greasemonkey script on Firefox network error page

I want to run a Greasemonkey script on Firefox network error pages, such as (but not limited to) this one: Can I do this with chrome:// URLs? If so, what are they? If not, is there another way? ...

Highlight current page in menu

Hello, I would like to highlight the current page in the sidebar menu. I am using the foll. jquery script to do this. When I test the jquery script in the console window in firebug, it works. When I upload the script to the website http://depts.washington.edu/uwbg/gardens/horticulture.php, it does not highlight the current page (excep...