Ubiquity Hack
What's the most useful hack you've discovered for Mozilla's new Ubiquity tool? ...
firefox
Checking if userinput is a valid URI in XUL
Is there an built-in function/method that can check if a given string is a valid URI or not in the Mozilla XUL toolkit. (I have looked for one but found none, but since this is my first time using XUL and it's documentation it could be that I just overlooked it. So I'm just making sure before I start writing my own IsValidURI function) ...
How do you make a post request into a new browser tab using JavaScript / XUL?
I'm trying to open a new browser tab with the results of a POST request. I'm trying to do so using a function containing the following code: var windowManager = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"] .getService(Components.interface s.nsIWindowMediator); var browserWindow = windowManager.getMostRecentWindow("...
Firefox add-ons
What Firefox add-ons do you use that are useful for programmers? ...
Firefox vs. IE: innerHTML handling
After hours of debugging, it appears to me that in FireFox, the innerHTML of a DOM reflects what is actually in the markup, but in IE, the innerHTML reflects what's in the markup PLUS any changes made by the user or dynamically (i.e. via Javascript). Has anyone else found this to be true? Any interesting work-arounds to ensure both beha...
Reading from a http-get presenting in Firefox bookmarks
I'm trying to get a Firefox plugin to read data from a HTTP get, parse the results and present them as links in a bookmark-like drop-down menu. My quesion then is: Does anyone have any sample code that will do this? ...
How can you export the saved username and passwords in FireFox 2?
I need to reformat my machine but I have so many user/passwords stored in FF2 that I just keep putting it off. Yes I know about backing up the entire profile and restoring it. But for some reason my profile has many issues and I want to start fresh with that as well. Are the username and passwords stored in a text file or is there some ...
How do I write Firefox add-on that automatically enters proxy passwords?
Suppose someone worked for a company that put up an HTTP proxy preventing internet access without password authentication (NTLM, I think). Also suppose that this password rotated on a daily basis, which added very little security, but mostly served to annoy the employees. How would one get started writing a Firefox add-on that automatica...
How can I disable a hotkey in GreaseMonkey while editing?
I'm using Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right in a GreaseMonkey script as a hotkey to turn back / forward pages. It seems to works fine, but I want to disable this behavior if I'm in a text edit area. I'm trying to use document.activeElement to get the page active element and test if it's an editable area, but it always returns "undefined". ...
Can the HTTP version or headers affect the visual appearance of a web page?
I know, I would have thought the answer was obviously "no" as well, but I am experiencing a strange situation where when I view my site from our staging server it appears slightly larger than when I view it from my local dev server. I have used Charles to confirm that all of the content -- the HTML, the images, the CSS, the javascript, ...
Is there any difference between the box models of IE8 and Firefox3?
What are the main differences (if any) between the box models of IE8 and Firefox3? Are they the same now? What are the other main differences between these two browsers? Can a web developer assume that these two browsers as the same since they (seem to) support the latest web standards? ...
Is there a Firefox 3 addon similar to View Source Chart?
Before I upgraded to Firefox 3 I used to constantly use the View Source Chart Firefox Addon which shows the source HTML in a very organized, graphical form. Unfortunately, this addon is only for Firefox 2 and the beta version for Firefox 3 now costs $10 on the author's site. Anyone know of a similar addon that works for Firefox 3? (of...
Useful browser plugins for openid authentication?
I've read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41354/is-the-stackoverflow-login-situation-bearable and must agree to a certain point that openid (for me) makes it more difficult to log in. Not a show stoper but I'm used to opening the front page of the site, there's a small login form, firefox' password manager already filled in the correc...
Asp.Net Form DefaultButton Error in Firefox
The .Net generated code for a form with the "DefaultButton" attribute set contains poor javascript that allows the functionality to work in IE but not in other browsers (Firefox specifcially). Hitting enter key does submit the form with all browsers but Firefox cannot disregard the key press when it happens inside of a <textarea> contr...
How do I suppress firefox password field completion?
I'm developing a website. I'm using a single-page web-app style, so all of the different parts of the site are AJAX'd into index.php. When a user logs in and tells Firefox to remember his username and password, all input boxes on the site get auto-filled with that username and password. This is a problem on the form to change a password....
How do you capture mouse events in FF, over Shockwave Object
How do you capture the mouse events, move and click over top of a Shockwave Director Object (not flash) in Firefox, via JavaScript. The code works in IE but not in FF. The script works on the document body of both IE and Moz, but mouse events do not fire when mouse is over a shockwave director object embed. Update: function displa...
Programmatically access browser history
how can i create an application to read all my browser (firefox) history? i noticed that i have in C:\Users\user.name\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\646vwtnu.default what looks like a sqlite database (urlclassifier3.sqlite) but i don't know if its really what is used to store de history information. i searched for examples on...
how to convert from prtime to .net datetime
I want to convert a number that is in PRTime format (a 64-bit integer representing the number of microseconds since midnight (00:00:00) 1 January 1970 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)) to a datetime. note that this is slightly different than the usual "number of millisecconds since 1/1/1970" ...
Debugging with FF3 in VS2008
I am using Firefox 3 to debug my ASP.NET applications in Visual Studio 2008. How can I configure either FF3 or VS2008 so that when I 'x' out of Firefox I don't have to hit the stop debugging button in Visual Studio? (The behavior you get with IE) ...
Automate firefox with python?
Been scouring the net for something like firewatir but for python. I'm trying to automate firefox on linux. Any suggestions? ...