firefox

Set an object in a page's window object from a Firefox extension?

I want my Firefox extension to add an object to the content window of the browsed page. I want it to have the same effect as running: top.myobj = {val : 3}; inside a script element in the page. Any ideas? I don't think there is a security risk here as I only add an object with a single integer property. Is there a simple way to get ...

Local HTTP redirects in the browser

I want to hack my browser to redirect from one website to another when I type in a URL. For example: When I type "facebook.com" into my Firefox address bar, I want it to redirect to "lite.facebook.com" Are there configuration files in Firefox that allow me to do this? Almost like a local mod_rewrite? ...

ssl_error_rx_record_too_long

I've googled this error but came up with no solution, this happened when I installed oracle database 11g, I tried to reach https://localhost:1158/em and this error pops up in firefox Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to localhost:1158. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (...

What is some JavaScript that illustrates the speed differences between IE and FireFox (or Chrome, Safari, etc)

Recently, I've heard a number of different people lamenting the speed differences in IE versus pretty well every other browser when it comes to using JavaScript to manipulate the DOM. I thought I'd put together a tiny little script to see what the differences really were, but I think I'm looking at the wrong problem as IE performs as w...

Best way to stop Firefox pipe-lining from messing up my stats

I've noticed that my pageview counts are being messed up by the pipe-lining feature in Firefox. People who visit using Firefox with pipelining enabled count two (or more) times for each visit. What is the best way to detect or block these duplicate requests? I need to know how to block it on my server, not just how to disable pipeli...

rails fckeditor abnormal behaviour in firefox

I'm using Scott Rutherford's fckeditor rails plugin 0.1.2 for my project. I attached it at the bottom of a page which requires scrolling. When I scrolled down and started to insert text into the editor, everything is fine across all 3 browsers (Firefox 3.5, Chrome & IE8). The problem is when I pressed on the ENTER key to insert a new pa...

Firefox autofilling username/password

One of my user complained that whenever he tried to add a new user (auth.User) using the default admin interface (Django's admin), the new username and password would get automatically filled with his own. The problem is he asked Firefox to remember his username/password when he logs in. Is there any way I can prevent Firefox from tryin...

What could cause dropdowns to keep their selected values on full page refresh (F5) in firefox but not ie

What could cause dropdowns to keep their selected values on full page refresh (F5) in firefox but not ie? ...

JavaScript continuously running in Firefox

I cannot figure out why my code continues to run even though it appears to have completely loaded the proper HTML. This problem only appears in Firefox (using ver. 3.5.3) and not in IE. This is just a simple script to display a multiplication table with a few decorative effects mixed in. <html> <head> <title>Multiplication Table</...

Firefox JSSH Connection or very detailed compile steps on Ubuntu 64?

Hi there, I'm having a hard time getting jssh and firefox to play nice on an Ubuntu Jaunty 64-bit machine. Anyone know the specific steps needed to make this work? (or, if you're using something else to get firewatir to work, I'll take those as answers as well) Here are a few things I tried: installing the jssh extension by itself (by...

how can I deactivate cross-site scripting defense on my own browser?

I want to load a page from a domain inside an iframe in another domain's page, and then access its content with JS. of course, this would be XSS so I'd get the "Permission denied to get property HTMLDocument..." error. The thing is, I want to do this on my own browser, not in a public access site (i.e. I don't need it to protect me from ...

Firefox and Silverlight

Hi, I'm developing a silverlight site, using deepzoom. When I call a function to ArrangeImages(), in IE, the image arranges correctly, using 100% of the screen. In Chrome it works as well. In Firefox, though, the msi container only uses around 80% of the screen. I'm resizing it using these 2 lines of code below: msi.Height = App.Curre...

Getting parserror using Jquery+ASP.Net MVC on Firefox

I've got a simple $.ajax request that I am trying to fetch some HTML content with in my ASP.Net MVC app. // Load the claim table function GetClaimTable() { $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "claimtable", data: {}, datafilter: null, dataType:'text', succ...

Table row height behavior in IE vs Firefox/Chrome/Safari

Consider the following simple html page markup: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> body, html { height: 100%; ...

DIV issue between firefox & chrome

Hello all, I'm still relatively new to CSS, but after lots of Stack Overflow reading, I have figured out how to add "headers" to a panel. Yay, go me. But the problem I'm running into is that one of my panels in particular won't render properly in Firefox. I've been doing all development work in Chrome, and I just now noticed this issue....

The top border of the table disappears using style "overflow:hidden" and "border-collapse"

Take a look at the following code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html> <head></head> <body> <div style="float:left; overflow:auto; width:400px; height:300px;"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:600px; border:sol...

Custom jQuery function not working in Firefox

I have written one custom paremeterized jquery function for fadein and fade out. That function works fine in IE but not in firefox. The function is : jQuery.fn.dcFadeIn = function(newDiv) { var openDiv = newDiv; return $(openDiv).fadeIn(); }; <input type="radio" name="doc3" value="independentCall" class="radioButton" id="indM...

Form Field Outlining

I'm trying to remove the blue "halo" outline that form elements have in Firefox on OS X. Using CSS, I can remove the halo in Safari on OS X, via: input { outline: none; } But this seems to have no effect in Firefox, nor does the -moz-outline property. ...

jQuery removeAttribute Error in FF

I have written a jQuery script to glow and then fade out similar to the glow and fade here on stack overflow. The only issue I have is when i call the removeAttribute('filter') to fix the cleartype font for IE, it errors out in Firefox, thus stopping other scripts from working. When I comment out the line, everything works except in IE ...

jQuery XML Ajax Call failing in... FIREFOX!

This is strange. I am used to IE crapping out on problems with XML format, but this is the first time I have had a problem in Firefox. The XML is created at this page: http://www.harrahs.com/content/events/EventCalendarFeedXml.jsp?propCode=UHA&amp;uniqueEvents=y&amp;showTimes=y The code I am using to pull in the XML is //Read X...