I know this question has been answered before, but the answer given is not the complete story: I went into Firefox's Options->Content and removed all languages except German/Germany, and navigator.language hasn't changed - it's still en-GB (I'm in the UK). I'm told if I get the German Firefox INSTALL it will work, but I shouldn't need ...
I have an C++ app I built which is registered as the default handler for a file with a specific extension. So when I download one of these files with Firefox from a website, it downloads it to a temp directory and then shell executes my app while passing the full path to the downloaded file on the command line. What is the best way to ...
I'm trying to use Dojo (1.3) checkBoxes to make columns appear/hide in a Dojo Grid that's displayed below the checkBoxes. I got that functionality to work fine, but I wanted to organize my checkBoxes a little better. So I tried putting them in a table. My dojo.addOnLoad function looks like this: dojo.addOnLoad(function(){ var che...
<div style='width:500px; height:500px; padding:50px;'> </div> As the behaviors of 'padding' on IE and Firefox are different. What is the best way to solve this problem? ...
I have Helvetica installed on my Windows XP PC, which is great for designing, but Helvetica looks horrendous when displayed in a browser on PC. EG If I visit a website with this style: font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ...Helvetica is displayed, as it is installed on my system. Can I force Firefox to pretend Helvetica isn'...
Hello, I've a problem with setting cookies in php. I've to say that I'm not very experienced with php, so maybe is a very stupid problem. I've an ajax rating system that should check a cookie to see if the the photo has already been voted. The page called with ajax check for the cookie, add the id of the photo you are voting to it and...
Is there any sort of workaround for the bug that makes firefox flicker when decreasing the size of the document? Click here for a demo Click here for the demo in quirks mode (no DOCTYPE) I bet it could be fixed using javascript -- whenever the scrollbar shrinks, make sure to scroll the window up to prevent the flicker or something.. t...
Hi, I need to display openx ads in one of my html file bundled with firefox extension (xpi). No ads are shown once it is accessed in chrome context. please let me know how to display ads in html page bundled with xpi. Thanks Anand ...
Dear folks, I enabled gzip compression on my website, and tested with the following tools: http://www.whatsmyip.org/http_compression/ http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php http://web-sniffer.net/ Though, Firefox and all its extensions (Firebug, Yslow and Google Page Speed) say they receive noncompressed content. text/html i...
Firefox on Ubuntu seems to render some HTML considerably differently compared to other browsers. In particular some fonts/styles on Ubuntu are becoming much larger and columns of text which rely on equal numbers of line breaks to keep them aligned are no longer aligned on Ubuntu Firefox. I have have been given some HTML which was made i...
Here is a question and background: I wanna use some external resources which distributed with XPI file in "plugins" folder. How can I detect where the folder is and load all these resources? I am in Vista and expect the solution works cross-platform. ...
I'm trying to detect when a user switches away from the current browser tab, to another tab. Listening for window.onblur works well in firefox for detecting when the user switches focus to another window, but it doesn't seem to fire when the user switches to another tab. However, it seems that onfocus is fired when switching to the tab...
I'm looking for a program that has similar functionality to this. It's basically a service that takes snap shots or screen shots of a web page. I need one that runs local for my development behind a corporate firewall. Ideally, it would take screenshots at set intervals to a folder that I specify. Anyone familiar with such a product? Al...
When I check this site in IE and FF. I found out that sifr works in ie but not in FF. link to the site You can see the difference in the h1 tags Can anyone tell me what I do wrong? ...
Hi there is a well documented bug in firefox(since version 0.9!) where hidding a flash, java applet, quicktime... really anything you can put in a "embed" or "object" tag makes the embeded content be restarted/reloaded when shown back again. It seems to occur when modifying any display related attribute on css. Normally this wouldn't be...
I'm having troubles with fckeditor in Firefox. When the user goes to a page, the html (encoded) is stored in a hidden input element. I call the predefined fckeditor javascript event to populate my editor with the html from the hidden ContentBody element. function FCKeditor_OnComplete( editorInstance ) { edi...
I'm stumped. A client and I are both running Firefox 3.0.12 on XP machines. We view the same page in the same browser on different machines and have different results. Note: All IE browsers are consistent on both of machines, and my FF 3.5.1 is consistent with my FF 3.0.12. (He does not have FF 3.5.x installed to compare with). There is...
There are times when looking at a computed style in Firebug, it's not evident how a value is computed or what its origins are. In some situations, the source is the browser's default. In web sites that are already constructed, it's not feasible to inject a css reset which will result in breaking all the pages. Is there a way in Firebug,...
What are browser bugs that are obscure in the sense that they are hard to find or only occur under certain conditions, but can seriously bite you? Please also provide fixes or workarounds where available. Things like the IE6 float margin or PNG bugs are well known by now, please concentrate on rarer problems. This is a community wiki, ...
For IE microsoft provides COM to access it programatically. Is there any function to access Firefox from our Program ...