firefox

How can I create a box big enough to contain whatever content I put in it?

Here is a link to my problematic page: http://www.studioteknik.com/lamouvance/programmation.php I'm trying to have a box be as big as the content injected into it (with PHP). It works on IE6 but not in Firefox... maybe I have done too many tricks, that the world is now upside down... Please, help! I'm sure it a one line solution.....

fullcalendar javascript issue - its not showing the events in IE?

On my team website: http://www.berzerkers.org, head over to the Schedule. The calendar is supposed to have a few events listed - it works fine in Firefox, Chrome and Safari - but not in IE...what is the issue? I don't know what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated! :) ...

Opening a large text file (30mb) consumes 500,000k of Firefox memory

Hi all, I was initially dabbling with IFrames to launch a document, and found that for large files, the memory in all browsers (I first noticed this in FF) jumped to 500,000 K. At first I thought it might have been some bad JS code that I had written, but removing all the extraneous code and just OPENING the text file still displayed ...

Tricky: Surpress "Loading ..." title in Firefox for JSONP polling

I am working on a jQuery plugin that people can include in their own page. The plugin spawns jobs at a service I am operating which is on a different domain. To breach the domain boundary I am using jQuery's JSONP functionality which works fine for spawning the job. However, I also need to display the "progress" (0 -> 100%). So far my p...

Calling Firefox XPCOM from external app?

Context: we need to read Firefox cookies in our app; until Firefox 3.5, this was possible by reading cookies.txt / cookies.sqlite. In Firefox 3.5, it exclusively locks the cookie file so outside apps can't read it (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476167), and even if we make a local copy, FF doesn't always flush the cook...

Flex 3 + Firefox: Extra Authorization header in HTTP Request

I'm working on a Flex 3 application that uses the Flex IFrame project to connect to remote web servers, using basic authentication. When authenticating against the remote web server, the URLRequest is put together with the following code, and loaded with a URLLoader. var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(targetHost); var authorizat...

HTML video player IE / FF

How can you display a video (mpeg or avi) with controls (play, stop, fullscreen) in both internet explorer 7 and up and firefox 3.0 and up. A lot of the examples online only works for one of the other. And I can't seem to find one that does it all. Constraints : I dont want a solution which needs me to export my videos to youtube or ...

How to prevent the floating layout wrapping when firefox zoom is reduced

Given the following HTML. It display two columns: #left, #right. Both are fixed width and have 1px borders. Width and borders equal the size of upper container: #wrap. When I zoom out Firefox 3.5.2 by pressing Ctrl+- columns get wrapped (demo). How to prevent this? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w...

Jquery Firefox error in finding position() of a DIV

Hello, I am facing a weird issue with firefox, I have a DIV tag with ID="popup_layer". I'm using Jquery to find this DIV which works fine : var rightPosition=$j("#popup_layer") But when I try to find the position of the DIV: var rightPosition=$j("#popup_layer").position().left; I get the following exception in Firebug: [Excep...

IE8 claims my page has an error, firefox doesn't, and I can't find any error. Help!

This is something of a follow-up question to my question here. You can find the HTML source in a text file here. When I load that page in IE8, I get the "Done, but with errors on page." message in my status bar. The detail view shows Expected identifier sms Line: 147 Code: 0 ...

Accessing CSS classes in a css file, cross-domain, in javascript

We include the CSS file via standard HTML STYLE tag. Then we need the javascript code to access the CSS classes and attributes. in IE and Chrome all goes fine, but in Firefox it throws this exception: uncaught exception: Security error (NS ERROR DOM SECURITY ERR) here's the javascript code: for (var i = 0; i != window.document.styleS...

socket problem firefox extension !!

hello guys, I have a firefox extension where for some reason(for the sake of functionality) i have to employ the use of a tcp server so that it can receive messages from my client application. I am using nsiServerSocketInterface to do it. This works fine. But the problem, comes up when FF is running and i hibernate or put my m/c to sl...

CSS Float border overlap issues

I'm trying to float a menu to the left of the page, and when it gets large enough to reach the content below, Firefox bumps the content over exactly as it should... except for the border. Here is a screenshot with a few items: And another with several items "Box 4" gets moved over as expected, but its border stays at the left. O.o...

How to center a div wrapped with panel in asp.net?

Hi, I created a div(search result term bar) which should display only when user enters a search term and it should appears in center of the layout. See the screen shot 1) before and 2) after to get a clear idea. I used the css style like below search_list{ margin:0 auto; width:1000px; } So that i appears center in all resolutions. ...

Ajax loaded html doen't show images in Firefox

I loaded some async html with $.ajax({ url: target, beforeSend: function() { }, success: function(html) { targetTabBox.html(html); } }); The url: t...

How do tools like the web dev toolbar get the entire css file of a site?

The web dev toolbar for Firefox is quite an impressive tool. What I am completely clueless about is how does this tool get the css stylesheet file of a site? This is hosted on a host which is secure etc. I am completely stumped. I must be thinking about this in all the wrong way. Thanks ...

menu bar buttons display correctly in IE but not FF - xhtml / css

I'm a bit of a n00b so please go easy.. I've searched for answers to my problem for some time now to no avail - so here it is: I have a menu bar of buttons that should go right across the screen like so (pictured in IE): ![http://s957.photobucket.com/albums/ae55/tommyleinen/?albumview=grid%5D%5B1%5D In Firefox, the buttons appear to b...

FireFox print options

Hi how i can customise firefox print options with javascript, without display the print dialog. i found this ff extention ( https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/8966 ) , but he cant set the page format (A4 or A5) thanks ...

CSS help - IE misalignment

Hi In Firefox/Safari/Chrome/Opera - the search bar and 4 sliders (from the page linked above) are all on 1 row. But in IE 6/7/8, the sliders are on a new row. Anyone know what's wrong with my CSS for IE 6/7/8 to be creating a cartridge return with the other browsers do not. Many thanks in advance ...

why firefox adds css styles unexpectedly?

The css is exactly like this: body { background:#FFFFFF none repeat scroll 0; margin:2px 5px; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:10pt; } But from firebug I see the style is: body { -moz-background-clip:border; -moz-background-inline-policy:continuous; -moz-background-origin:padding; background:#FFFFFF none repeat...