firefox

Unreadable var_dump in Firebug when xdebug is enabled.

Xdebug displays "var_dump" in its own way with more useful information, but in Firebug is unreadable. I was wondering if there was a way to display the var_dump in Firebug to make it readable without disabling xdebug and also keeping the display of the var_dump made by xdebug in PHP. Examples of var_dump displayed in Firebug: $test = ...

Flash (Actionscript 2.0) behavior in IE vs. Firefox

Our company has a large and complex flash (AS2) application. The application uses a small controller main.swf file that loads in over 100 .swf modules that make up the various parts of the application. We have been experiencing a periodic problem where some of the loaded modules will contain corrupt data after loading. As this happens...

firefox in ubuntu : how to automate basic authentication password confirm dialog

Hi, I have an ubuntu workstation with firefox always open on a (autorefreshing) web page protected by basic auth. At startup, I have autologin and automatic firefox start on the page and I have saved the basic auth credentials. I'd like to confirm in some automated way the username/password dialog box which pops up on the first openin...

Silverlight and Firefox Visibility Issue

Hi I have a web application that has a div with a silverlight control inside of it. The div initially has a style of display: none. I have a button that sets the div's style to '', to show the div and the silverlight application. This works fine in IE. But in Firefox it just shows a white box. Doing a little javascript debugging, i...

How to Enable ClearType in My Site for FireFox?

In Windows XP and Vista it is possible to enable system wide ClearType font rendering. My question is: Is it possible to force ClearType rendering for my site in FireFox (maybe some META-TAG thing) even if system-wide ClearType is not set (like in IE7+)? ...

XMLHttpRequest, FireFox Extension, and error code '1012' (Access Denied)

I'm working on a FireFox extension that uses XMLHttpRequest to grab data from a remote server. The javascript code is as follows: function _PostBackObject(data) { var postBack = new XMLHttpRequest(); postBack.onreadystatechange = function(){ if (postBack.readyState == 4) { if (postBack.status...

Ajax response empty string when triggered via form onsubmit in firefox, but working fine in internet explorer and opera (works in firefox if send by submit button instead of form onsubmit)

Ajax response empty string when triggered via form onsubmit in firefox, but working fine in internet explorer and opera (works in firefox if send by submit button instead of form onsubmit) I am simply calling a php file with the ajax GET and the php file response with - echo $response = "something"; . Then the response value is alerted...

AJAX Response not working in FF

Hi all, I have a bit of code which alerts the $response from a php code in IE, but for some reason it doesn't work in FF.. Here's the code: function contactfunction() { var url = "scripts/php/cbb.php?pname="; xmlHttp.open("GET", url, true); xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = updatecontact1; xmlHttp.send(null); } function updateconta...

Feedly is based on what ajax framework?

Feedly.com is kind of cool. Can you guys give me some clues about it is developed based on what ajax framework? ...

Firefox : Open XLSX file not saving file butn opening binary.

Hello, I generate a file server side and I want the client to automatically open it : it's a XLSX file. Firefox just opens the file and I see the binary content of the XLSX file in the browser, but I want it to be open via a Save As... box. It works fine in Chrome with the same code (it saves it) but not firefox... Any ideas ? ...

IE versus Firefox in displaying anchor color

Hi, I just notice a very odd behaviour in Firefox 3.5. I am running Firefox 3.5 under Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) and Windows XP. When I open the following URL : http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss%5Flink2 Firefox renders the links in blue. When I open it with IE 6.0 it shows the links in 'red'. According to the...

Margin not acting properly in Firefox

I'm having a very weird problem that for the life of me I can solve. Basically, in Safari my top navigation has no top margin and is flush with the very top of the page. In firefox, it is applying the bottom margin to the top as well, for a reason I cannot figure out. When I remove margin in firebug, the fake top margin is also removed. ...

How to map a global key to refresh?

Winamp has a neat feature. Global keys. That way I can change the playing song even if Winamp GUI doesn't have focus. I am looking for a similar solution to Firefox or Chrome. I use Eclipse to code PHP. It auto SSH's and saves to another machine (testing) I could use something like XRefresh with a mapped virtual drive but I cant instal...

How do I remove color (colour) profile information from images using .NET?

Hi, I have a tool which manipulates images at runtime as part of my web app. This generally works fine, but with the release of Firefox 3.5 we're seeing some colour problems. I believe this is because Firefox 3.5 now supports embedded ICC colour profiles where no other browsers do. In order to achieve consistency of display, I'd like...

Firefox CSS Against me? ?

Hello Everyone. I am a Programmer and not a Designer. My boss asked me to modify the print.css I modified the print.css 10 Hours, nothing nothing and nothing happened. If with IE everything looks good, in FF it looks horrible. If with FF everything looks good, in IE it looks horrible. What did i wrong? Pls have a look at this website ...

Why doesn't Firefox show the correct default select option?

I'm making a web app to manage product SKUS. One part of that is to associate SKUs with product names. On each row of a table, I list a SKU and display a <select> box with product names. The product that's currently associated with that SKU in the database is given an attribute like selected="selected". This can be changed and updated vi...

IFrame content swapping bug?

I have a web page with a number of iframes, including 3rd party iframes like ad sense and various sharing buttons. In Firefox, I've noticed that occasionally the content of these iframes get swapped, such that you'll get an ad sense ad where another iframe is. It seems completely random where iframe content shows up. It seems it may ha...

jQuery click event behaves differently with live function in Firefox

Using the event click with live function leads to strange behavior when using Firefox*. With live in Firefox, click is triggered when right-clicking also! The same does not happen in Internet Explorer 7 neither in Google Chrome. Example: Without live, go to demo and try right clicking the paragraphs. A dialog menu should appear. With...

Attaching WatiN to Firefox

Using WatiN, Im facing some issues with FireFox FF = new FireFox ("http://www.google.com");, FireFox always crashes at this point and VS report : Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host any idea why this is happening ? Win7 32Bit - VS2008 - .NET 3.5 -...

Scrollbars not appearing in new window

I'm trying to open a new window, and for some reason the scrollbars will not appear in Firefox or IE, but do work fine in Chrome & Opera. here's the javascript code on the button (from a PHP script), and below, if it's more readable, the HTML that is output: window.open('".BASE_URL."utils/viewProfile.php?key=".$key."',null,'width=1280...