I haven't been able to get something like this to work: var myWorker = new Worker("http://example.com/js/worker.js"); In my Firebug console, I get an error like this: Failed to load script: http://example.com/js/worker.js (nsresult = 0x805303f4) Every example of web worker usage I've seen loads a script from a relative path....
I would like to use the Web Worker facility introduced in Firefox 3.5 to enhance a Greasemonkey script I'm working on. Is this even possible? I've done some experimentation, but I can't get past the issue of loading a worker script from an arbitrary domain. For example, this does not work: var myWorker = new Worker("http://dl.getdrop...
According to this S.O. answer the Firefox Web Developer toolbar has a Save button: However, the answer shows an image of the toolbar which does not show a Save button: I just installed the toolbar to take advantage of this option but I do not see a Save button. Does the Save button exist? ...
I want to compile a portable version of Firefox 3 on a low cost Intel Celeron Windows Xp machine to run as a kiosk computer. So i just want the browsing functionality since i'll be running it on the fullscreen mode. What are the steps to do a minimal rebuild from the sources? Also what is firefox's command line parameters to open a site ...
To edit CSS, I have to inspect elements in Firebug and then make changes in the Firefox Web Developer toolbar so that I can save the changes out to a separate CSS file. It would be nice if I could forget about Firebug and just use a single tool. Does the Web Developer toolbar have an "Inspect Element" option? I can't seem to find one. ...
I have written an application suite on Windows which amongst other things installs a Firefox add-on which once run modifies the Firefox network preferences by interfacing with nsIPrefService. The extension itself resides in a folder under Program Files along with other parts of the application which work together with each other. Since...
My firefox clients when tries to access my website get this error--the page isn't redirecting properly firefox On safari they get--Too many redirects No issues with IE. Also this error mainly appears on login pages Can anyone suggest me What to do? Am I doing something wrong in My web.config or .htaccess file? Is it a session issue ...
Hi all, I am working 508 accessible standard for a website. There are a Firefox plugin to help check on each page a website WAVE addons I am having a crawler that walk throught all pages of the website. Now i want to combine WAVE addons + my crawler to check website as 508 accessibility compliance automatically. My question is how to...
I have a webpage that uses a custom plugin, like this: <embed height="0" width="0" type="application/mozilla-plugin-myplugin" id="myplugin"> Now, whenever someone visits this page without the plugin installed, Firefox popups a yellow bar telling the user that not all plugins are installed. So far so good. But, when the user presses t...
Hi all, I know it's a long shot with so little details I can provide, but here's the problem: I have an asp.net (3.5) application, which I'm trying to run on IE,Firefox and Chrome. On IE and Chrome EVERYTHING works just fine, but Firefox causes trouble: On Firefox, when clicking SOME of the link buttons I have,the status bar shows the...
I think what I need here is to know which magic command-line or OSA script program to run to start up a URL in an existing Firefox browser, if one is running, or to also start up Firefox if it isn't. On Mac. I'm testing a Python program (Crunchy Python) which sets up a web server then uses Firefox for the front end. It starts the web ap...
SVG rendering some paths without color, only black silhouettes, and only in FireFox. Using Jquery SVG , only some groups are showing up with color. I'm using Adobe Illustrator, exporting SVG 1.1 . Any ideas? ...
Say you wanted a Greasemonkey script to be compatible with Safari and Chrome. Whereas in Firefox the Greasemonkey scripts only run when the DOM is ready. Chrome, Safari and Opera seem to run the Greasemonkey scripts before the DOM is ready. So what I am looking for is a solution that will only run a listener on the page, waiting for th...
Hi, I have a asp.net web page with a drop down list (RadioButtonList), one of the list item in that list is long text so it wraps to the next line (the list is nested inside a table). I have a auto post back enabled for the list and i handle selection change event. Now if I select that list item with the long text, the selection change e...
One can bind Javascript events to html elements without using inline declarations. Is there a way when inspecting an html element to know which events are bound to the element? I want to know about the events defined by the developer and not the internal ones that come with the browser. So if I hover over an element and a menu shows up...
I'm writing a Firefox extension. I'd like to have my code executed whenever a new tab opens. I've tried this: for (var i=0; i<Application.windows.length; i++) { var w = Application.windows[i]; w.events.addListener("TabOpen", function(event){ alert( 'tab #'+w.activeTab.index +' opened'); }); } It doesn't work right if window...
I am porting a Web App to a new environment. Due to changed paths, some references to JavaScript Files () are broken. I know of no way to make Firefox / Firebug / the web developer toolbar to warn on missing JS files, or at least issue an information somewhere. Am I overlooking something? Thanks in advance. ...
Hi all, I'm working on a large site and starting on browser compatibility next week. Just had a glance in some different browsers to have so idea of whats ahead of me and i noticed differences in FF3.5 vs FF3. The site has been built in FF3.5/IE8. So I'm wondering if there are know issues between the two FF versions? A quick google sea...
Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to modify Chrome or Firefox display settings, so that it would only show rectangles of HTML DOM objects? What I want to do is to decrease rendering engine job amount as much as possible, so it would only build layout of the page. Thank you! ...
Hi All! This is probably an easy fix, but I'm stumped. Here's the URL: http://urgent.mchenry.edu First off, underneath the urgent.mchenry.edu text box in the header is an h2 w/ class="caps" and text that says "Official McHenry County College Update". However, it absolutely disappears in IE7. Gone. I tweaked the ie.css with !important...