firefox

Is there a browser which supports Socks5 with authentication?

I have checked IE8, FF 3.5 , Opera 9 none of them have support for proxy authentication for socks5 proxy server. Can anyone point me to enable socks 5 authentication or any other browser which has automation APIs available and works with sock5 proxy authentication. ...

Browser performance question.

Using an adapted version of jquery.inplace.js for some page creation and use an OBDC connection in the background php file to query for content. Everything works, BUT... I am surprised that IE6, 7, or 8 are all pretty quick, as is chrome, but firefox seems to take quite a few seconds for exactly the same task, in this case. This is wit...

Listen for history events in FireFox?

From the context of a FireFox extension... Is there some way to be notified of back/forward/goto/reload/etc. "History Events"? I'm not looking for a way to cancel or change them, just to be made aware of them. My best solution thus far has been to hook into the UI elements responsible (menuitems and buttons) for triggering history nav...

What's the actual font used by Firefox to render an element?

Yes, I know about addons such as Firebug or the Web Developer Toolbar that allow one to see the font-family specification pertaining to a specific element, but how can I find out which actual font is Firefox using to render the element? To give you an example, suppose I declare, say font-family: "Georgia", "Verdana", serif;. Now, the Ge...

Javascript in Firefox Plugin: Delay in for loop

I am aware that when coding an extension, there is no way we can delay a function call except for using a setTimeout call but here's what I am trying to achieve in a plugin that I am developing for firefox (this is not for javascript embedded into a webpage by the way): for (var i = 0; i < t.length ; i++) { //Load a URL from an arra...

JApplet/JPanel not receiving KeyListener events!

Hello, I cannot get my JPanel within my JApplet to receive keyboard events. I CANNOT FATHOM why! Note that... Clicking the panel (with mouse) before typing makes no difference. This is by far the most common advice I see given on the Net. I have tried using the 'low-level' java.awt.KeyEventDispatcher interface. That makes no differen...

How Internet Explorer Prepare Print Preview window

Hi All, I am wondering how Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or any other browser generate print preview window of an web page loaded into the browser. The preview image will have various changes such as banners and adv are removed, will have white background and black text and etc. We would like implement similar print preview windo...

Rendering XML attribute value in page

I am trying to render a complex XML document as webpage(FF only) using a stylesheet. In one of the tag the content itself is part of the a attribute value <projectMember> <Role roleType="CHANGE ADMINISTRATOR III"/> </projectMember> <projectMember> <Role roleType="CHANGE ADMINISTRATOR I"/> </projectMember> I need to dis...

Problems using prototype with lowpro through firefox…

Seems there's nothing to do… using the combo prototype/lowpro, no problems at all with safari + chrome (webkit based), but firefox does take it at all. Any clues on how to go through this ? big thanks. ...

Firefox float positioning and Firefox div:hover not working how it should?

I'm working on a tricky bit of styling that's working on Safari/Webkit but not on Firefox/Gecko. I can't figure out just what's going wrong. Here's the HTML that I'm using: <div class="showcase"><a href=><div class="showtit"><span class="showname">Stripes!</span> <span class="showtype">a theme</span> <span class="showdate">October 2009...

CSS: Why is my form submit button on a new line?

On my web site, http://tinyurl.com/yhvj6g Why is it that Internet Explorer is placing my "Find listing" submit button on a new line whereas Firefox & Chrome keep the submit button inline horizontally with the input field (which is the desired result)? I would like Internet Explorer to behave the same as Firefox & Chrome in that it keep...

How can I grab an image dragged from Firefox?

Based on this drag/drop article: http://delphi.about.com/od/adptips2005/qt/dropontimage.htm I'm trying to catch an image dragged from Firefox onto a TPanel, I've got something that nearly works, but when I go to copy the file (that I thought would be temporarily created), the file did not exist, what did I miss? procedure TformMain.For...

Source file for Firefox's SSL error

In Linux Firefox, if in case there is any error related to SSL/TLS, which source file does it refer to in order to generate the error code and pop up window (or error page)? ...

no resizable in popup window dont work in firefox

i try to open new window with javascript window.open func, and add 'resizable = no' parameter, in ie its work , but in firefox it allow to resize how can i block it in firefox ? thanks. ...

[HTML/Firefox]: When website opens, Firefox asks to download the page.

My website is working fine on IE, but when I open it on Firefox, Firefox asks to download the same page and opens the Download File dialog. This problem occurs sometimes in Safari also. For example, if I type in the URL as: http://www.example.com/news.html Firefox opens a dialog to download "news.html". Whereas, it works fine in IE. W...

Recover Firefox tabs when closing main window with "organize bookmarks" open

I have Firefox 3.0 (under Win XP) configured to show tabs from previous sessions when starting and automatically save the session when exiting. Firefox even offers to restore tabs after a crash. I keep a large workspace of open tabs, and because the recovery is usually so effective, I don't think about frequently saving the open tab set ...

Http Passthrough Pluggable Protocol for Firefox.

How can I make an http passthrough pluggable protocol for IE work in Firefox? Alternatively, how to develop one for Firefox? Any examples would be appreciated. Thanks. ...

jquery post to webrick via sinatra only works in IE

When I run my little test app in IE, the log output from webrick shows a return code of 200, and indicates it received a post request: 192.168.0.18 - - [03/Nov/2009 16:17:37] "POST /testpost HTTP/1.1" 200 512 0.0010 Quietspeed.example.com - - [03/Nov/2009:16:17:37 EST] "POST /testpost HTTP/1.1" 200 512 - -> /testpost And the page is up...

Javascript image "onabort" event not firing in Firefox & Chrome

I'm trying to work out how to get the onabort event of an image element to work. From reading the docs it's meant to fire when a loading page is stopped either from clicking the stop button or firing the stop event. I can get the following code snippet to work in IE but not in any of the other browsers. What am I doing wrong? <html> <...

issue with target="_content" from sidebar

Firefox main window is refreshing always if a hyper link which differs only in the HASH part is clicked from the sidebar. I am using target="_content" to achieve this. Main window url = "www.mydomain.com/index.html". The hyperlink in my sidebar is "www.mydomain.com/index.html#search=testing" I noticed this if firefox is started with so...