firefox

sIFR Doesn't Work in FF3 Mac.

I thought it might be something I was doing wrong, but I am not seeing it working on any site, including Novemberborn.net. Any Ideas? The CSS is loaded, so the headlines are hidden, and then it is like the JS isn't loaded at all. Could this be a browser detection issue? I am using firefox 3 with latest flash player version 10. I have ...

DOM element width can be non-integer?

I have some one page whose div elements are aligned by JavaScript. The JavaScript just check a set of div elements to find the max offsetWidth, then set all div elements' width to be the max offsetWidth. It works perfect in most browsers and locales, but it fails on french-France in Firefox on Mac. In this case, the content of div wraps....

How to get Basic Authentication Information in a Firefox Extension?

I'm coding a Firefox extension and want to get Basic Authentication information for a website (or for the current document). How can I get Basic Authentication Information in a Firefox Extension? ...

firefox plugin that records traffic

Do you know of a firefox plugin that records the http traffic I generate while browsing? I would like something like firebug's net tab but it should not "restart" every time I click a new link. ...

Is there a Firefox keyboard shortcut to clear the cache?

With the Firefox web developer toolbar I can select "Miscellaneous Clear private data Cache". Is there a way to do the same with a keyboard shortcut? Edit: I am also using vimperator to drive Firefox with the keyboard; just found out that it's possible using: :emenu Extra.Web Developer.Miscellaneous.Clear Private Data.Cache. ...

Firefox onkeydown detect pressed key

From an input text I need to call a function to capture the onkeydown event and I need to pass a parameter to that event, for example: <input type="text" onkeydown="TextOnKeyDown('myPrefix');" />... Then in that function I need to know what key was pressed. I use function TextOnKeyDown(prefix) { var key = event.keyCode; ... ...

"start" does not work in bat file when used as filetype handler in Firefox

I have a batch (bat / cmd) file which should act as a filetype handler for jpeg files in Firefox, I just want it to copy the file to another folder, and then open the file in the Picasa Viewer. When I run it from the command line, even if I'm running it from another folder, it works fine, and opens Picasa Viewer. However, when setting it...

Script / Utility to consolidate browser tabs?

I often find I have 10 browser windows (some firefox, some ie) running, each with multiple tabs. I'd like to be able to: 1) Consolidate all the URL's into a list, suitable for emailing 2) Merge all the tabs into one instance of either FF or IE Anyone ever come across a utility like this, and if not, have any idea how a person might do ...

How do I get TiddlySnip to work in Firefox?

Since Google stopped supporting Notebooks, I decided to look for alternatives and so I gave TiddlyWiki + TiddlySnip a shot. However, when trying to install TiddlySnip2.1, I'm getting this error: "TiddlySnip" will not be installed because it does not provide secure updates I followed the procedure specified in the site which is to add ...

Html scroll: how to avoid it to "cut" my inner elements

Hi, this question is for an autocomplete drop down list I have to do that will fire while you're writing in an html textbox. It basically consists of a div containing the suggestion elements, each of them being a div as well. I got to the point where it's begining to work properly but now I added a vertical scroll to the containing di...

Unable to customize Stackoverflow by CSS in Firefox

I would like to control which parts in Stackoverflow are visible to me by a css file. There are about ten css -files in Firefox installation folder. I am not sure whether I should edit them or not. How can I customize Stackoverflow by CSS in Firefox? ...

How i can change canvas context stroke on a typeface hover? stroke() doesn't work

Hi to all, this is a related Firefox problem. I have a menu in which is applied typeface script. Typeface 0.11 version doesn't support hover on links. There is an experimental version but doesn't work very well for me, so i tried to implement hover by myself. Problem is: hover works pretty well changing canvas context property fillCol...

Can't delete a cookie on test server

I am having a problem deleting a cookie on my test server. On my dev machine the cookie deletes fine. This is the request/response taken from fiddler. I'm trying to delete the .Hv2 cookie I've tried without setting the path part of the response cookie - no difference. This is a grab of how the cookie looks from FF. One difference I...

MediaPlayer does not show controls - problem with FF and IE. How to solve it?

Hi, I got this piece of code: <object id="MMPlayer1" codebase=http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701 type=application/x-oleobject height=238 width=240 align=absmiddle classid=CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95> <param name="FileName" value="http://www.abradio.cz/asx/beta32.asx"&...

Why is the UpdatePanel Response size changing on alternate requests?

We are using UpdatePanel in a small portion of a large page and have noticed a performance problem where IE7 becomes CPU bound and the control within the UpdatePanel takes a long time (upwards of 30 seconds) to render. We also noticed that Firefox does not seem to suffer from these delays. We ran both Fiddler (for IE) and Firebug (for ...

sIFR - line height issue in Firefox 3 only?!

I'm trying to use sIFR to create a tag cloud effect for a homepage I'm working on. There are 4 lines of text, with various font sizes and font colours within each line. I suspect sIFR purists would say this creates too many movie clips to be safe, but it really is the effect we're looking for and it's the best option we have which is g...

browser cache bypassed in firefox?

Consider the following html page, which can load in many large png files: <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript"> function hide( ) { document.getElementById("here").innerHTML = "hidden"; } function show( ) { var loadMe = ""; for (var i=1; i<250; i++) { loadMe += "<img src='http://domain.com/" + i + "_a.png'><br>...

Selenium fails to kill browser when test fails

How do I setUp selenium to kill the test browser page on occasions where test fails. Currently, when running selenium test cases and a test fails, the browser page stays open and that causes problems when large number of tests is failing. Interestingly enough, it isnt the case when the test passes. Any suggestion?? ...

DropDownList with Firefox and ASP.NET MVC

I have been hitting a brick wall on this for about an hour now. I have a list of counties that I build and add to my view data (counties) and then render the list with a: html.DropDownList('invoice.county', counties) in my view. It appears to render correctly but FF REFUSES to set the selected item. I have tried swapping the values ...

Flash transparent background not working on Mac

Hi I just can't seem to get the background to be transparent on a Mac, see here: http://www.digiflipconcepts.com/smokinhot/templates/smokinhot/ I'm using wmode=transparent. I've been searching google for ages and see that wmode is not very stable and that it will work if I use the 'embed' tag but it would not be valid code anymore. Can...