firefox

Surefire way to get html ontop of flash content?

Hello all, I've been struggling to get some absolutely positioned overlays to show above an flv movie(using flowplayer) in the firefox browser(works in safari) I have the overlays div placed underneath the video html "wrapper" and have tried using a high z-index on the overlays but to no avail. Is there anything i may be doing wrong? ...

How does python webdriver work?

Hi, I want to add some features to webdriver, but since I don't know Java at all, I want to understand the way it works first. So as I get it, there is a firefox plugin (javascript) and there is java code that starts firefox with that extension installed, then this java code listens to a local port and when it gets some command, java sig...

What is the difference between Browser , Rendering engine and user agent?

To make cross platform and cross browser website application what is the role of user agent switcher? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 Is user agent different thing then rendering engine? and if some browser use same rendering engine then do we need to check on every browser or one is enough? ...

listening and accessing to all the request made by firefox

I am developing an addon which will modify all the http request made by firefox. So, I want to listen and modify all the request url made by browser from different sites. How can I get an access to different http request url and modify them. Is there any event which is fired in firefox before requesting any http-request. So, please sugge...

Why doesn't this JavaScript run in Firefox?

It certainly runs on IE6. Why doesn't this JavaScript run in Mozilla Firefox? <html> <head> <title>JavaScript Popup Example 3</title> </head> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript1.2"> function MyClass() { this.OpenWindow = function() { var r = window.open ('', 'mywindow', 'location=1,status=1,scrollbars=1,width=100,height=100'...

How to distribute a folder as a reference?

I am making a C# app and I am using GeckoFX to embed Firefox into my app. For anyone interested, I got it here: http://geckofx.org/. The problem is, I want to deploy GeckoFX with my app and I don't know how to do it. The line of code I use to initialize GeckoFX is this: Skybound.Gecko.Xpcom.Initialize("C:\\xulrunner"); This assumes t...

Firefox: how to show local image with relative path

I want to put an image with relative path to local file. Firefox doesn't seem to accept something like <img src=images/test.gif> What's the syntax ? ...

Firefox profile changing using command

Hi all, I want to switch between two firefox profiles online using bat file without closing my firefox. Is it possible? thanx in advance. ...

CSS "position:fixed" rendering in FF 3.5 vs. 3.0

Hi Guys, Is there a fundamental difference between how position:fixed; is handled by Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.5? I ask this because I had been using Firefox 3 as the development platform for an ongoing project and this was upgraded to Firefox 3.5 today. The structure creating the trouble is a div situated at the very top of the viewp...

Adding entry to Firefox cache from an XPCOM component

The nsICacheSession has a method openCacheEntry() which returns an existing cache entry. Is there a method such as createCacheEntry() that will create a cache entry. I want to create an XPCOM object that will read files from disk and write them to Firefox cache. Thanks ...

How can I print to a label printer from a web page

Hi I have an e-commerce web application and I'd some how like to make that print to a label printer for the back end stuff I have two questions 1) I can't print from a normal webpage straight to the printer (A zedbra LP2844 i think) it just throws out junk 2) I want to be able to print labels to the label printer, but all other print...

Why does Internet Explorer prevent me from accessing the parent window's JavaScript?

I have IFrame with a button in it, and it's onclick is: new window.parent.UI.Image('xyz').addToCart(); In Firefox, I don't have any problems with this code. In IE, however, I get a "permission denied" error. Is there a different way I should be accessing the JavaScript in the parent window? ...

Clear cache with greasemonkey

I have a web application running in a kiosk, which is set up with greasemonkey so that we can customize little things about the application and ensure the customizations only occur at the kiosk. I have been digging through the GM api hoping that it would have some functionality to affect browser settings, but alas it looks like it only ...

Firefox Exension vs. Greasemonkey Script?

I've been working on a Firefox extension extension, but it's been slow going (in part because I have no time to work on it). I've got a basic skeleton, verified that I can talk to an external JSON API, modify any webpage when loaded, and show a preferences box. These are all necessary HelloWorlds for the extension I am writing (maybe I d...

IFrame access updated content Firefox issue

The src file of my iframe has 3 textboxes. Entering 2 values in the first 2 textboxes displays the sum in the 3rd textbox. The sum calculation AND display is done using javascript inside the src file. Frame1.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML in Firefox gives the src file's content and not the updated content (that is, with the value...

Intercepting and replacing page-level HTTP requests with custom extension-made responses?

I am making a firefox extension which injects most of its interface in the pages. However, if I want images in that interface, I am unable to inject them. So what I am trying is to intercept specific http requests and replace them with the local images. So far I have been able to intercept specific pages and replace them with others, but...

HTTP request debugging: Getting a complete log of all HTTP requests sent by Firefox

What is the easiest way to obtain a complete log of all HTTP/HTTPS requests issued by Firefox during a browser session? The question is programming related insofar that obtaining a log of all HTTP/HTTPS requests issued is a great troubleshooting tool when developing webapps. ...

Javascript links made by php in Firefox.

I'm working on a script and it works fine in IE and Chrome, but the links do not work in Firefox. Basically I am using php to query a database and generate some links inside the page. Example of the relevant link code: <TD class="bodycopyblue" onmouseover="this.style.background='#FFFF80';this.style.cursor='pointer'" onmouseout...

Firefox and Opera do not finish loading webpage with an embedded Windows Media Player file

BROWSERS CAUSING PROBLEM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.10 CLIENT MACHINE: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HD, 2.3 GHz. TEST WEBSITE: http://www.microwavecontrolledfusion.us I have no problems loading the ...

Javascript + namespacing + FF issue

var utils = function() { function getMyPrivateName() { return "Caoimhin"; } return { messages: { getMyPublicName: function getMyPublicName() { return "Kevin"; }, sayHello: function() { document.writeln("hello " + getMyPublicName() + "<br/>"); ...