firefox

How to edit a Firefox extension?

Hello, I want to change a Firefox extension. What I've done is found it in the Firefox profile folder, renamed the .jar to .zip, unzipped it, made the changes in a .js file (I didn't make a mistake in JS code), zipped it back and renamed to .jar. So now the button to start that extension has disappeared from the menu in Firefox :) What i...

Firefox 3.5 eating body margin on random sites?

Since a few days, I have noticed on several, not related pages that a few seconds after loading (maybe onload), sometimes (about 1 time in 50), FF 3.5 swallows the left margin of the body tag (I suspect) and the whole content moves to the left. Reloading the page or re-entering the address will not help: The margin stays missing. Going...

Firefox on Windows 7 displays fonts on web pages in strange way

Firefox keeps showing me text in font size I didn't set in css . In IE6 ,7 ,8 and in Chrome text has proper size, but in FF it's bigger. I use font-size: 10pt in css , in one place I put font-size property , html is valid , css is valid . This only happens under Windows 7 . http://tommymedical.pl ...

Site not looking good in Firefox

Hey guys, A site I constructed on wordpress, www.instant-wine-cellar.co.uk, does seem to be working well on Firefox web browser. I was wondering if any one could help me work out why that is (maybe using firebug). The stylesheet is a file called style.css and the reset stylesheet is reset.css. It looks normal in any other web browser. ...

XUL How to create autocomplete with behaviour similar to context popup.

I need autocomplete feature to be added into the editor which is iframe inside < browser >. The behavior should be similar to context menu (so popup should be shown near the text cursor) but because context menu attribute is already occupied (this menu works fine) by another functionality I can't use it. Is there any natural way to do th...

XUL key tag uage

I need to bind key shortcut to $ sign for < key > in XUL I tried keycode="36", modifiers="shift" key="4", key="$" but nothings seems working. Is there any way to do such thing? ...

Firefox Extension to load website with defined speed.... slow down internet connection

Hello, ich want to slow down the loading of a website (local websever) to a predefined speed. Any idea? ...

Firefox doesn't execute one dynamically loaded <script> element until another is loaded

I'm implementing Comet using the script tag long polling technique, based on this page. Following on from my previous question, I've got it all working, except for one annoyance, which only happens in Firefox. On the initial page load my Comet client JavaScript sends two requests to the Comet server (in the form of dynamically generated...

Using Firebug From Within a Firefox Extension's code

Does anyone know how I can use firebug from an overlay.js script in a Firefox extension? I'm on Snow Leopard (just in case it makes a difference). I'm developing an extension but it's taking me forever because I have no visibility into my javascript objects. Thanks! ...

window.beforeunload called twice in Firefox - how to get around this?

I'm creating a popup window that has a beforeunload handler installed. When the "Close" file menu item is used to close the popup, the beforeunload handler is called twice, resulting in two "Are you sure you want to close this window?" messages appearing. This is a bug with Firefox, and I've reported it here, but I still would like a wa...

innerHTML working in FF but not in IE!

In my JSP i am using a custom tag <showDateFormat/> like: Date From:<showDateFormat/> and in my common.js file i am having function addDateFormatInfo(){ var dateFormatHolder = document.getElementsByTagName("showDateFormat"); if ( dateFormatHolder ){ for ( i = 0 ; i < dateFormatHolder.length; i++ ){ dateFormatH...

Hyperlink display problem for different browsers (Firefox vs Internet Explorer)

Here is how I give a url to my asp.net hyperlink in c# reportHyperLink.NavigateUrl = "\temporary_reports\" + "department_report" + "_" + numberOfTicks + ".xls"; This is how it is displayed in internet explorer. http://myportal/temporary%5Freports/department%5Freport%5F20091126%5F11%5F25%5F56%5F914.xls This is how it is displayed in ...

firefox open local link to directory with explorer

On a Website for our internal use i show links to local files and folders. the links are like this: href="file://C:/example/" href="file://C:/example/test.odt" The Problem is now that the link to the directory does open in firefox itself with a useless directory listing. Useless because you can just see the files or open them but not...

Firefox JQuery JSON Problem

Hi, I'm using the following code to request data from an ASP.net MVC application. I'm also using TcpTrace so that I can see the request/response. if (isInteger($('#txtDay').val()) && isInteger($('#txtMonth').val()) && isInteger($('#txtYear').val())) { $.ajax({ type: 'POST', contentType: 'application/json; charset=u...

Mootools script not working in Camino/Firefox

Hi there. I currently have script that slides down a once the page has loaded. So far, it works in Safari, Opera and IE8, however it doesn't work in Camino nor Firefox, so I am guessing it's a Mozilla based problem with my code? Here is my full file: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtm...

Creating new tab / switching between Tabs in Firefox?

I am looking for a way to improve the workflow in a PHP based CMS. There is a lot of switching between the editor mode and the preview mode of the page. The editor mode is huge to load, and so I would like to open the preview mode in a different window. I don't want to use new windows or an iframe within the current window to keep the w...

Checking input elements on Firefox with JavaScript

I'm developing an extension, which listens to click events on elements. Now I have two questions: Is there a convenient way to detect whether an element is an input element? Like input, textarea in HTML, and textbox in XUL. If the user clicked on an input element, how to get the position where the user clicked? For example, there's an...

An issue concerning MouseEvents

I'm now catching mouse click events on textarea elements. Since I have to stop propagation after processing the event, the caret will not be set as usual when we use click on the textareas with middle key. But I need to set it before doing further works, so I tried to dispatch a mouse event manually. My code is: var evt = document.cre...

How can I remove responses from LiveHTTPHeaders output using awk, perl or sed?

Let's say I have something like this (this is only an example, actual request will be different: I loaded StackOverflow with LiveHTTPHeaders enabled to have some samples to work on): http://stackoverflow.com/ GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: stackoverflow.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070220 Firefox/2...

How to delete Firefox cookies from webdriver in python?

Hello, when I can't delete FF cookies from webdriver. When I use the .delete_all_cookies method, it returns None. And when I try to get_cookies, I get the following error: webdriver_common.exceptions.ErrorInResponseException: Error occurred when processing packet:Content-Length: 120 {"elementId": "null", "context": "{9b44672f-d547-43a8-...