firefox

Understanding td width in Firefox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 8

Does someone have a good reference for how browsers determine td width? I have a table with 3 columns, td width set to auto, 150px, 200px, respectively. Looks pretty good in Firefox 3.5. In IE 8, columns 2 and 3 are huge, column 1 is much tinier than I'd like. I wouldn't mind the browser being a little smart (sometimes column 3 has l...

Javascript rich text editor textbox for an XUL App

The functionality i am trying to implements will allow user add notes and format it with bold/italics, etc. using XUL app. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks PS: i have done searches on this site and have found multiple editors TinyMCE, webkit, FCKeditor. What i wanted to know is if anyone used any of these editors ...

ASP.NET DropDown SelectedIndexChanged not firing in Firefox with UpdatePanel

I have an asp:Updatepanel that contains a dropdown and I run some Javascript on the onchange event of the dropdown. I also fire some server side code on the selectedindexchanged of the dropdown. This works OK in IE, but in Firefox the selectedindexchanged event never gets called. I think this may be something todo with onchange and ...

Detecting tab visibility in Firefox

I'm writing a webapp that performs an action every minute or so which (very briefly) hangs the browser. I'd like to pause this action when the tab displaying the webapp is not shown, to minimize the annoyance. Is there any way to do this using Javascript, under the latest version of Firefox? Edit: to clarify, I'm asking about how to det...

How to add mime-type for <video> element on Firefox ?

Hi everybody, Into this dir there are : OGV video (Theora/Vorbis) for Firefox MP4 video (H264/AAC) for Safari FLV video with a flash player (player.swf) for others browsers a template.html which contains a snippet coming from Video for everybody a .htaccess to add the new types of video Locally the video is correctly displayed on al...

Preventing two conflicting Firefox extensions from being installed at the same time.

I built two separate Firefox extensions which are fundamentally incompatible with each other. The incompatibility is by design, as it would be totally unlogical for a user to install both. While I can stress out in the doc that both shouldn't be used at the same time, I don't trust the user to read the doc, and I'm looking for a way that...

Make IE 'follow' FF

Hi, When developing webpages i need to test the layout and functions in both FF and IE. Anybody know of a FF addon or something else where i can make IE follow FF, meaning the if i type or click in FF IE will automatically do the same? ...

how to display an exsiting xml file to user in RoR

Hi, I have an xml file and I want to display(render) it as it is to the user, i.e I want to keep the tags. How should I do in RoR? I have tried render :file=>"/path/to/file.xml", but the tag <product> disappeared. //file.xml <product>car</product> Update: I found the behavior is browers-dependent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; e...

Firefox 3.0 CSS Drop Shadows

What is a technique to add drop-shadows to text that would work in Firefox 3.0? FF3.5 and Chrome support the CSS3 property drop-shadow: p { text-shadow: #000 2px 5px; } IE6, 7, 8 support filters: p { filter: shadow(color=#123456, strength=2); } How would you do it for Firefox 3.0? It uses the Gecko rendering engine and none of the...

What are the meanings of those connection limit configurations for Firefox?

What are the meaning of those connection limit configurations for Firefox? network.http.max-connections network.http.max-connections-per-server network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server ...

double hyphen in script makes firefox render strangely

<!-- <script type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/ c-- ;//]]></script> --> When I have the above line in the <head> section of a plain html page, Firefox 3.5.5 renders the trailing --> as text. If I change c-- to c- it doesn't. Any ideas what's going on here? I getting an artifact on my pages with this due to a very large script th...

Javascript parameter not well executed when contain space or specific character

The problem is when the link is clicked. I have a problem ONLY if the third parameter contain space OR/AND character like ê,é,î... <a href="javascript:arretSuivrePortefeuille('13206','Suivre','Arrêter de suivre');">Suivre</a> I receive from FireBug : arretSuivrePortefeuille is not defined javascript:arretSuivrePortefeuil...

javascript Document ready firefox (jQuery)

In FireFox I have this jQuery at the end of the body: $(document).ready(function() { $.getScript('LiveMapsJavascriptProvider.aspx?type=reference&value=6', init); }); There are a lot of js files in the head that are needed to be all loaded before this would work. So I put my call in a document.ready event. It doesn't work. IE work...

JQuery not working in Firefox, does in Safari

Hi all, I'm building a site using Jquery for some basic animation. The javascript is here: $(document).ready(initialize); var currentSelection = null; var previousSelection = null; function initialize() { $("#print").bind("mouseover", navHover); $("#print").bind("mouseout", navStby); $("#print").bind("click", selectPrint); $("#radio...

IFrame with wrong URL - parent page displayes error in IE - how to solve?

I have the following html in a page: <div> <iframe src="http://google.co.in" style="width:200px;height:200px"> </iframe> <iframe src="http://" style="width:200px;height:200px"> </iframe> </div> This page displays correctly in Firefox: But in IE (7 & 8), the whole page gets replace...

Cookies in IE6+, Safari vs. Opera, Firefox (JQuery)

Hi, I have found a weird difference in cookie behavior in IE+Safari/Opera+Firefox while navigating with the 'back' button: in IE and Safari the cookies set on a page get dropped (reverted) when returning to the previous page via the 'back' button, while in Opera and Firefox the new cookies persist. The latter behavior is what I need, b...

Firefox + long thumbnail list => img rendering issue

Hi, been searching a while to no avail. I have a photo gallery page with a flash slideshow player (imagerotator). Underneath I am showing thumbnails of all gallery images in one line w/horizontal scrolling. Now when that list gets long, all thumbs after an arbitrary number (somewhere between 50 and 80) are rendered plain white upon fi...

Disabled controls in Firefox

First of all in my custom webpage project, i use a master-page. What drives me nuts, is that hyperlinks (2 of 5 in a child page) seem to be disabled while debugging with firefox (V3.5.5). I face the same problem with a radio-button-list which exists within an asp wizard control. It seems to be disabled, (Does not accept focus). What i...

Firefox 3.6 build error on Windows VS2005 - C compiler cannot create executables

I am trying to build Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 using Visual Studio 2005 on Windows. I downloaded the release source, the latest version of mozilla build, but get the error "C compiler cannot create executables.". I have been able to build all other 3.5 and previous versions without any issues. The problem occurs at the start of the build proce...

Why doesn't my expires headers make my files stay in cache?

I'm using valid expires and no-cache headers for my static files and they stay cached for as long as I keep browsing, but when I close my browser and use it back after a while I see the static files loading again, even when not refreshing with ctrl (+ shift) + r I'm using Firefox, cache size set to 250MB and I don't let it remove any pr...