firefox

Mozila Firefox Tool Tip Text

to any component in html when i add tool tip text by alt="my tool tip text". it works in other browsers but not in fire fox. why. is there a way to enable it in firefox ...

Communication between firefox extension and page javascript

I am developing a web-based javascript/html application with a sister firefox-extension. The application's page-javascript performs a few XHR calls immediately after page-load, in order to bring in and display all the content that the page requires. Is there a way, without polling the DOM, that my extension can know that the page's in...

How does one save a variable in a Tab for use with one's Firefox extension?

I am writing an extension that opens new tabs and I need to save the value of a var in the current tab, such that it will exist even if the user restarts Firefox. How can I do this? ...

Javascript code does not work in Firefox

hi friends, In the image click I write code for invoke java like this <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>New Page 1</title> </head> <body> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="311"> <tr> <td height="14"> <img onclick ="SignIn();" border="0" src="../images/Sign_In.g...

How to reset netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege?

At same point, I believe I've clicked the "Deny" button when the message box appeared in FireFox asking me if I wanted to allow a site a privilege using the netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege() method. Now, I cannot find how to reset this so that the message box will start appearing again at this specific site. I've c...

JavaScript OS Detection - several Windows XP versions?

I am trying to detect three operating systems - Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux. I use the navigator.oscpu which alerts the following OS/values - Windows XP SP3 - Windows NT 5.1 Windows Vista - Windows NT 6.0 Ubuntu 9.04 - Linux i686 I am doubtful about the number 5.1 shown for XP. Will it show 5.1 for ALL configurations or XP - ...

Refresh problem in Firefox

hi friends, In my asp page there is one textbox name "ProductName" if i write any thing in that textbox and refresh that page , textbox is not clear in firefox. But i open this same page in Internet explore and write any thing in textbox and refresh the page, my textbox comes clear why textbox not comes clear in FireFox? This is the ...

Previewing RestructuredText with firefox while editing in vim on ms-windows

Hi I want to use VIM to edit reStuctured text documents in a number of operating systems. I found this posting http://www.zopyx.com/blog/editing-restructuredtext-with-vim Can you help me come up with the line to achieve the same effect when run on a MS-Windows operating system? Would it also be possible to to use an environment varia...

Stopping FireFox from autoloading RSS?

I was working on a site recently and we adding an RSS link to the HTML header. Example: <link href="/feed.rss" title="RSS Feed" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" /> The problem that we were having minor performance issues and when we looked into it we found that FireFox 3 was loading the RSS feed on every page load. We checke...

Variable dimension fluid images, vertically and horizontally centered

http://www.publicgathering.net/temp/fluidvert.html Interestingly enough the problem here is in Firefox of all things. Single image per page, variable heights and widths, has to be vertically and horizontally centered, has to be fluid (shrinks for smaller browser windows) and I'm merely looking for recent browser support (IE8, Chrome, F...

SharePoint 2010 and Firefox/Safari, will Kerberos work ?

As far as I know both FireFox and Safari can not work with Kerberos in a SharePoint context for the time being, but why is that, and should we expect that both FireFox and Safari will play ball in the SharePoint 2010 timeframe? ...

firefox/safari/ie top margin ,left margin 0

if i use <BODY TOPMARGIN=0 LEFTMARGIN=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 MARGINWIDTH=0> tag like this, will this ensure element i put in my html will displayed the same across all browser? the reason i asking this is because, i was told Internet explorer renedering of the page is slightly different .In other words, if i put img tag in a page and rende...

Displaying a page in Firefox without opening a new tab

I'm writing an editor that is updating a WYSIWYG view in the browser. As this update can happen often i don't want to open the page in a new tab. Is there any way other then using the ugly way of emitting keystrokes to enter the Open URL command and entering the URL (I'm doing this right now, but it's buggy if the user interacts with the...

Disable or ignore mousedown on select field in firefox

Is there any way to make it so a click on a select input field does not open the list of options? I tried returning false from onmousedown and onclick, I tried calling this.blur() in onfocus, I tried setting the readonly attribute, none of this seems to work in Firefox. Chrome and IE seem to take the "return false" in the mousedown hand...

Firefox rendering HTML incorrect sometimes

I developed a css menu and it has worked fine across all browsers in my testing (pure html/css). When we brought the code into our development environment which is running on cakePHP, we started seeing the menu bug out sometimes in Firefox (3.5.2). It happens in no other browser. I checked the source when the bug occurs and this is what ...

Make sure a range object doesn't start or end in the middle of a word

My application requires heavy use of ranges (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/range). In particular, users frequently highlight text and then manipulate it. Sometimes users accidentally highlight text that includes a fragment of a word, and this produces weird results. I'd like to be able to, given a range, check to see whether it s...

Is there a way that I can detect if Firefox will open a particular URL in an IE tab?

I have a web page that links to another web application, which unfortunately only completely functions in IE, so, when viewing the original page with another browser (like Chrome or Safari) I display a warning that the application won't operate fully operate unless opened in IE. Of course, some savvy users of Firefox have the IE tabs ex...

Javascript Browser Recognition

I was doing the browser recognition tutorial on w3schools,and I found that when using firefox and google chrome I received Netscape 5 as my result. I was just curious as to why this is. Anyone care to explain it to me? ...

How to disable inner-outline on selected table cell in Firefox

Hi, Using Firefox on OSX when I cmd+click on a table cell I get an blue inner outline. I searched for a way to disable this behavior on my web application but did'nt found anything. I tried to capture the onclick or set the CSS outline to 0px to no avail. I also looked at MDC Mozilla CSS extension but many are undocumented. Is the...

Why would a JPG display in Firefox, but not IE?

This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen... Any ideas? This is driving me insane. If it helps, this is an image that's been uploaded by a client using a form then moved using PHP and renamed. ...