firefox

Firefox plugin that intercepts certain HTTP requests

Is there a way to make a Firefox plugin intercept certain requests and respond to them without hitting the network? Example: every time the browser is about to request http://www.example.com/page.html, the plugin automatically returns "Hello world!" for that page. Cheers! ...

Is there a way I can check for missing links?

I'm developing a website using PHP. In my HTML I include some JavaScript and CSS files. I'm using Firefox to test my code. Is there a way using Firefox I can test for CSS and JavaScript that needs to be included but is missing "File does not exists"? Almost like the Find broken images option in the web developer toolbar in Firefox. ...

Back Button (Browser Behavior)

When the back button is pressed in a web browser, is the default action to send a get request or serve from the browsers history? If its browser specific, what would the default actions be for Internet Explorer and Firefox? ...

Store some text persistently in a browser using Javascript

I am developing a Javascript library to FluidDB HTTP API. Since FluidDB API does not support JSONP I am forced to use AJAX and hence to develop a firefox extension to workaround AJAX's same origin policy. My solution is to include a HTML file inside the extension. That HTML file displays a simple form where the user could enter the u...

Firefox not playing embedded swf

I am using swfin to embed a swf object (video player) and it loads fine in all browsers, but in firefox it won't "start". I have to right click on the movie area and "start" is unchecked so I click on "start" and it will start just fine. Yet, in chrome and IE (haven't moved to a mac for testing yet) it fires up and starts just as I exp...

Can't deploy extension (firefox)

I am closely following the tutorial here as I attempt to create a Firefox extension. I have the following tree for my extension: backtosearch +-chrome +-content backtosearch.xul +-chrome.manifest +-install.rdf I have created a testing profile for FF called "Extension Testing" and have added a file to the profile extens...

jquery + firefox: hotkey problem

hi, i've recently implemented jQuery UI into my testcase and experiecend some strange behaviour with firefox. it seems like something in jQuery (i'm only using the dialog widget currently) is blocking global hotkeys from firefox (v3.54). eg. ctrl-R for refresh fails to work. anyone who knows about this/how to fix it? thx, fuxi ...

CrystalReportViewer Firefox Problem

Using CR 11.5 R2, .NET 2.0. Report displays fine in Internet Explorer but in Firefox it is blank. Appreciate any suggestions, this has me stumped. <CR:CrystalReportViewer ID="crViewer" EnableViewState="true" runat="server" BestFitPage="False" ClientTarget="Auto" AutoDataBind="true" DisplayGroupTree="False" Left="0" Height="430px" Wi...

Page not submitting in Firefox

Hi, I've a user control registered in an aspx page. User control has a textbox and a submit button. Ascx code of user control is placed under a asp:panel. Using firefox, when user hits enter key, the page is not submitting to the server.However, this works fine in IE browsers. Am i missing something here? ...

input type=submit text vertical alignment in FireFox

I'm trying to style my form buttons and I'm experiencing a problem in FireFox that I can't get to the bottom of... I want to style certain <a />s and <input type="submit" />s to look the same (I have a button background image, using a sliding-doors technique to apply a hover effect.) This all works great, except in FireFox, the input s...

jQuery find() returning an empty string in Google Chrome

I'm using jQuery to setup an Ajax request that grabs an XML feed from a PHP script and then parses some information out of the feed and inserts it into the DOM. It works fine in Firefox; however, in Chrome, I am getting an empty string for the title element. Here's the basic setup of the Ajax request: $.get('feed.php', function(oXmlDoc...

Image doesn't render when width and height are defined in percentage with <table> parent element

I'm trying to scale down an image by percentage and this renders correctly in Firefox, but not in Internet Explorer. The img tag needs to be inside a table. <TABLE> <TR> <TD> <img src="test.gif" width="60%" height="60%"> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> Is there a better way to do this so it works in both browsers? ...

jquery iframe css firefox bug?

Without going in to detail on what these methods do, can anyone tell me why I get these weird results? getCurrentIframe().findInIframe("h2").css("paddingLeft") // gives me "20px" how ever if I do .get(0) or [0] to get the dom-element and then rewrap it in a $ I get: $( getCurrentIframe().findInIframe("h2")[0]).css("paddingLeft") //it...

Selenium IDE 1.0.2 in Firefox 3.5 on Mac

I've tried installing Selenium IDE from their website. The newest version - 1.0.2 - installs fine. After restarting Firefox, I go to "Tools" > "Selenium IDE", and this window opens: No more happens. I can access the menus of Selenium (Create New Test Case, etc.) but clicking them doesn't have any effect. I am using Firefox 3.5.3 on Ma...

What do I need to do to serve an XPI file from IIS7.5.7600 (Win 7 x64) w/ .net and have Firefox know what to do with it?

I've added this to my web.config (IIS did it for me actually): <system.webServer> <staticContent> <mimeMap fileExtension=".xpi" mimeType="application/x-xpinstall" /> </staticContent> </system.webServer> But I still just get a standard file download box. What else is there that I'm missing? ...

multiple image maps not working in firefox

Hi, I got stuck again between browsers compatability issues, what I was trying todo is to link different parts of image using image maps. I am using two image maps for respective images. using two maps MAP1 and MAP2, MAP1 works fine in all the browsers but MAP2 didnt worked in firefox,chrome,safari. Both maps works fine in Internet...

window.open broken on FireFox with Google Toolbar installed

Just now I started having problems with a site I'm working on. The problem occurs when opening a window with a simple window.open. var popup = window.open("picture.php?id="+id, "gallerypicture", "width=737, height=543, top="+top+", left="+left); popup.focus(); For some reason Google Toolbar starts breaking stuff as soon as the wi...

FireFox performance problems with a particular jQuery enabled site

I built my first site with jQuery and overall it turned out quite well - in most browsers, that is. You can see the site's test environment here. Much to my surprise, it works great in IE, Chrome, Safari and Opera - but it pretty much sucks in FireFox. I'm using a basic slideshow, a hand-coded horizontal accordion, some little popup b...

Cross browser way of setting IFrame to "about:blank"?

Does anybody know a proper, cross-browser way to "empty" an IFrame? Is "about:blank" recognized without error across all browsers? Is it valid to give an IFrame an empty src? ...

Can't load JS file for firefox extension

I have a working firefox extension that currently consists of a button. When I click that button, my XUL file declares oncommand="test();" which simply is an alert("hi!"); . I am including the file like this: <script type="application/x-javascript" src="chrome://myfirstextension/content/resultscollector.js" /> the resultscollec...