firefox

how to set the vertical scroll bar in firefox to be in the left side ?

i want that the vertical scroll bar that show in textarea in fire fox will show in the left side, i have site with 'rtl' direction, and in IE its o.k , in the left side - (oposide the text). ...

Firefox extension to display an inline css class or id definition?

I use Firebug and Web Developer Firefox extensions. One feature I am looking for and which I am not sure if they exist in these extensions is when I am looking at a webpage source, I want to click on a class or id name and somewhere it displays the definition of that class or id. Not the css inheritance hierarchy. Just the particular cla...

How do I style a Jetpack status bar panel correctly?

When I create a status bar panel in Mozilla Jetpack, it looks like a featureless grey box which "interrupts" the status bar, as it lacks the borders/shading/etc. that make it look like a normal status bar panel. How can I get it to look like other status bar panels? ...

Firefox Web Developer Toolbar: JS does not work after an "on the fly" HTML edit

I'm getting used to this toolbar, it is so cool to edit the page on the fly and see what I'm changing... THe only problem is that my JavaScript stops to work after (or while) i'm editing, and I need to save an refresh the page... Did I miss any option? Is there any other tool that does this? ...

Problem with SelfSSL and Firefox 3

I have a IIS website with a security certificate setup using SelfSSL (part of the IIS Resources toolkit). The certificate appears valid when I view it in ISS and it works fine for IE, Safari and Google Chrome. However, in Firefox 3 it does not consider the certificate valid and therefore shows a certificate warning when you view a secure...

Porting ActiveX control to run on multi-browsers

I currently have an ActiveX control which links in many c/c++ dlls. The problem is that we now need this control to run on browsers other than IE (most importantly Firefox). As I see it I have the following options: Write the control as a firefox plugin. This seems like it will be the quickest but would then tightly couple us to Mozil...

Debug next PHP page in Netbeans from Firefox

I have recently switched to using Netbeans (6.7 RC1) on a Mac, using MAMP as stack. I have Xdebug installed and working. Previously I used Zend Studio 5.5 with the Firefox Zend toolbar. This had a great feature that allowed you to click 'Debug next page'. When you submitted the form it would then start the debug process. How do I do so...

Apache 2 authentication error

Attempting to implement client authentication with an SSL cert, according to this HOWTO, I receive the following errors. Apache: Re-negotiation handshake failed: Not accepted by client!? Firefox: ssl_error_handshake_failure_alert I assume it is a configuration error, but have not been able to locate it. Additional info: Com...

Firefox window.opener issue

"window.opener" works fine in both IE and Firefox as long as 'Open in New Tab' is used from the right-click menu; Error console says "window.opener" is null. Is there any other way the opener can be accessed? Edit: Error console says "window.opener" is null only when "Open in New Tab" is clicked. For all other cases, there is no such er...

Location of Mac Firefox updates log files

Where does Firefox for the Mac (Version 3+) store logs about it's security updates? ...

Read Firefox bookmarks using C#

Using C#, I need to get all Firefox bookmarks for importing them into our database. How can I do this? I'm aware of the SO question, Read FF 3 bookmarks in Java, but the answers there all seem to revolve around Java database drivers, and I'm not sure that some of those answers aren't Java-specific. My primary question is, "How can I re...

How can I set default homepage in FF and Chrome via javascript?

Hi! I have a code that works only in IE anb I was looking for something similar in FF and Chrome to set user's default homepage through a link 'click here to make this site your default homepage', but so far I didn't find anything. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!! ...

Response does not start with HTTP

Attached Firefox to fiddler and got following error. What would cause this error? Interesting thing to note is that the HTTP header is getting rendered on the page So Fiddler says that there is a protocol violation because response does not start with HTTP. But the HTTP response is rendered on page. ...

Start up firefox with session cookie set for a domain

I've tried various permutations of: firefox.exe "javascript:document.location='http://site.com';document.cookies='key=val';" But with no good result; the cookie is not added for the site.com domain. Is it at all possible to accomplish using this approach? ...

Jquery working in Firefox but not Internet Explorer

I'm using the jQuery Cycle plugin (malsup.com/jquery/cycle/) on this page: http://artandculturecenter.org It works as expected in Firefox and other browsers, but NOT in any version of IE that I've tried -- browser displays all the divs rather then cycling through them. I'm assuming this is because jQuery isn't working/loading at all bec...

Open a new tab firefox

Can anyone help me by telling me how can I capture the URL of a new tab or a new window by using JavaScript in Firefox? ...

Create a favicon for a link that is JavaScript?

I have a link on my site that is strictly JavaScript, that the users can optionally drag to their browser's link bar. Because there is no associated site with a Favicon, the link always gets a blank icon. Is there anyway to associate a Favicon with it at the time the user drags it? I am primarily interested in a Firefox solution, but IE ...

SQL Reporting Services - Print Button not shown in Mozilla

I am using SQL Reporting services, it's working perfectly and shows a print button in IE, but not shown in Mozilla Firefox. Does anyone have any idea? I have checked out this solution, but it's not working: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsreportcontrols/thread/7bdf431d-70db-419d-8e98-ef41cad8e2d8 ...

Writing a firefox/netscape plugin

Hi, I am in the process of writing a firefox/netscape plugin (not extension) to run on windows, and I was wondering if you could suggest any sites for guidance and tutorials? I have been looking through the mozilla documentation, specifically the gecko sdk documentations for a reference, but it's not the easiest to follow. Just wonderi...

Why does firefox require credentials to load an image?

I am running a website on a virtual directory. The url for the site is http://localhost/virtalDirectory/pages.aspx I have an image to be loaded on the page from the following directory heirarchy: parent directory ..images ....my image ..myPage.aspx My img tag is <img src="images/imageName.gif" alt="some text"/> When loading in ...