generate browser window screenshot
i have to work with multiple pages (tabs) at once and need to see how the different pages look like at any one instance. is it possible to take screenshots of open tab of Firefox/Chrome through Javascript? ...
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Putting a div on a new line (problem caused by floating <ul> elements)
So I have a 3 unordered lists like so: <ul class="menu"> <li class="heading">Title (Click To Download)</li> <li><a title="Download sample.mp3" href="http://example.com/sample.mp3">Sample Song</a></li> </ul> With the following css style: /* SITE MAP MENUS */ ul.menu { float: left; margin: 0 10px 0 10px; display: blo...
Mac eclipse xdebug firefox issue
I have worked with eclipse, firefox, and xdebug for months now on a linux-ubuntu machine. recently i moved to a mac 10.6 and set up all these programs and they all work fine until I try to run xdebug using firefox as the default browser in eclipse. It will work, but the browser must be close other wise it will prompt a message saying C...
Good resources for learning to develop Firefox Extensions.
I am looking for good resources to learn to develop Firefox extensions. Resources can be either books or tutorials on the net. Prefer basic tutorials as I am a newbie in the world of Firefox extensions but I have experience in Software Development so programming is not an issue. ...
flowplayer not working on firefox
Iam using flowplayer to embed an flv file in a page. It works just fine in IE8,Chrome and Opera, but firefox refuses to show anything. There is just blank space where the file is supposed to be. Is this a known issue ? Flowplayer version : 3.1.4 Firefox version : 3.5.5 Firefox extensions : Java Quick starter,RealPlayer Browser record ...
CSS Hacks, Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome
I searched around and allegedly, body:nth-of-type(1) is used in CSS to target only Safari and Google Chrome. Lo and behold, Mozilla reads it properly too. I searched ten times more but came up with nothing, so here I am. Is there a Google Chrome-only CSS hack? ...
Browser extension: is there a way to stop the loading of images?
In either Firefox/Chrome extension, is there a way to stop the loading of <img> before the browser actually starts loading them from a page? ...
How to instruct browsers to ignore GET parameters when caching a resource
Is there a way (an http header) to tell browsers not to distinguish between main.css and main.css?someparam=1 when performing caching. According to w3c spec: since some applications have traditionally used GETs and HEADs with query URLs (those containing a "?" in the rel_path part) to perform operations with significant side effects,...
why cant i create cookies in Firefox?
I cant create a firefox cookie with following line: setcookie("TestCookie", $value, time()+3600, "/", "localhost"); does someone know why? i have checked the settings in FF and it accepts cookies from 3rd parties and are deleted when they expire. EDIT: i can create now with this line: $domain = ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != 'localho...
Firefox Selected Text HTML
when i select some text from the browser, is there anyway i can get the selected html instead of just the plain text for firefox using javascript. Let me know if any one did this before. --vamsi ...
Find computed style "source" ("trigger") in DOM inspector
Is it possible to find in DOM Inspector what tag/class/id combination triggered a particular Computed style rule. In my particular case I have a font that changes its appearance if a wrap the fragment in some other tag combination. So I see the different computed Style font-size(s), but can not quickly understand the difference in the c...
How to programmatically update/remove extensions Options
I am installing FF extensions using the information given here https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Installing%5Fextensions. I am extracting the xpi into a folder named after the extension's id. Fine with installation. Now I have two issues, Uninstalling. If I remove the extension id folder, FF is creating an empty folder when re...
How do I remove horizontal scrollbar padding (Firefox) ?
To make a table scroll with a static header I added the following: tbody.scrollContent { height: 300px; overflow:auto; } And the html tbody tag has the class: <tbody class="scrollContent"> It works well, but it added a horizontal scroll to compensate for the width of the vertical scroll bar. I would like my regualr tabl...
Firefox Extension, get a reference to the loaded document using browser.contentDocument
I want to write a simple firefox extension. How can I get a reference to the loaded document object in a browser window? For example, how can I access the document in this html page loaded here on stackoverflow? According to the vague mozilla development center I can use browser.contentDocument, but it is not working for me. <?xml ...
Web sites load fine in Firefox but not it IE8
When I test my site in Fox it works fine, when i click the Nav bar the pages change is smooth, but when I test it in IE8 the pages seems to struggle. When I click on a page the change takes 3 seconds and it's like it shuts down than reloads. It like it blinks when it reloads so the page is forcing to open, and the back ground changes w...
Custom HTML Attributes,: Firefox vs. IE
What changes do I have to make to the following simple HTML page to get Firefox to read and set a custom attribute as it does in IE? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta content="text/html;...
Adding custom content-types to Firefox application handler?
In Firefox, whenever I request a page that returns a Content-type of "application/json", Firefox saves the file into /tmp but then says "/tmp/json.php could not be opened, because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences." Well, I go into Edit > Preferences > Applications, and there's ...
Detecting whether browser can load Java Applet successfully - Unexpected behaviour on Firefox
Hi, I have an ASP.NET page which loads a Java Applet. I am first checking that the client computer has the ability to run the applet (Java version etc) by giving the tag an ID of "AppletID" - then I call a function of this applet which always returns "true". So, the following line of code: var isRunning = document.getElementById('App...
How can I automate and share sessions between Firefox and Perl?
Is it possible to do part of a web flow in Perl and then transfer the rest of the session to Firefox? I need to retry(with Perl) logging in to a website which returns 500 every now and then on a successful login, transfer the authenticated session to Firefox, from where I can continue my normal browsing. Is this possible? If this is poss...
JavaScript: How do I change the Hash in the Address Bar WITHOUT adding an entry to history?
I'm trying to expand on an idea from someone else's question, and running into difficulty. The idea is to insert the utm_source (from an ad campaign) into the url hash dynamically, have Google Analytics track the page, and then remove the hash. (We don't want to keep the hash because: 1. it's a duplicate page, and 2. If the user bookmar...