firefox

windows.location.href not working on Firefox3

We have a javascript funtion named "move" which does just "windows.location.href = any given anchor". This function works on IE, Opera and Safari, but somehow is ignored in Firefox. Researching on Google doesn't produce a satisfactory answer why it doesn't work. Does any javascript guru knows about this behavior, and what would be the ...

In Firefox, can I disable the "Website certified by an unknown authority" SSL certificate warning dialogs?

i.e. I just want them to be permanently accepted all the time. ...

Firefox and SSL: sec_error_unknown_issuer

My client gets a sec_error_unknown_issuer error message when visiting https://mediant.ipmail.nl with firefox. I can't reproduce the error myself. I installed ff on a vista and a xp machine and had no problems. FF on Ubuntu also works fine. Does anyone get the same error and does anyone have some clues for me so i can tell my isp to chan...

How to avoid the (Author not verified) message when installing a Firefox XPI file

What do I need to do to avoid the "Manual Install" in Firefox for a Plugin and where do I have to go or what do I have to do to avoid the (Author not verified) message when downloading a Plugin. Ideally I would like to initiate the installation of the Plugin automatically and if I need to sign the Plugin somehow to show that it is not do...

Java applet/Firefox incompatibility problem

I've written a Java applet. A user reports that he tried to run it in Firefox 3.0.3 on OS X 10.5.5 but no go. It wants him to download a plug-in, but when he tells it to install missing plug-ins it can't find the appropriate installer... What is going wrong here? ...

Protecting Javascript Code in a FF extension

I am looking to protect the code of my Firefox extension because it has server calls in it that no would be a security risk if someone could make them outside of the extension. Any suggestions on how to encrypt it? ...

pulling location.href or window.location from fire fox without it being encoded

Hi! I'm passing a url through google translate and in my location bar on Fire fox, the url looks as it should: http://72.14.235.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=en|ru&sl=ru&tl=ru&u=http://something.something/something/.....orig_term%3Dмалярии I want to grab the orig_term and apply its value other places on my page as it ...

Firefox sending request twice

I'm trying to process a credit card transaction in .net and it works perfectly in Safari, Opera, and IE. When I try the same transaction in Firefox it sends two requests and I end up with a double charged card. From a quick search on Google it seems that this is an issue with Firebug but I am unable to find a way to stop this double post...

In Firefox (2 or 3), what is the chrome:// path for the "Website Certified by Unknown Authority" XUL dialog?

Another angle: how do I browse all the XUL for a given chrome path, e.g. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dev_:_Firefox_Chrome_URLs has a listing but seems to be out of date. ...

Strange jQuery AJAX Firefox Issue -- Page Randomly Won't Finish Downloading

I have this strange issue with my web app. You see, I'm using jQuery with the Forms API and doing $('#MyForm').ajaxSubmit(api parms and callback function goes here). Randomly when I do this, however, and only on Firefox, the page load icon starts spinning, the page load progress bar runs in the status bar, and the stop button goes red -...

Firefox - designMode: disable image resizing handles

How can I prevent the user from being able to resize an image in designMode? (disable the handles when image is clicked) ...

Turn off caching for JavaScript files on Firefox

During development I have to "clear cache" in Firefox all the time in order to make it use the latest version of JavaScript files. Is there some kind of setting (about:config) to turn off caching completely for JavaScript files? Or, if not, for all files? ...

What is the rate of firefox 2.0 and 3.0 adoption?

Part of the question: 1) How much of the market share does IE have? Opera? Firefox? 2) How many Firefox 2.x browsers have already been migrated to 3.x? For those who question whether this is programming related: This is for deciding what has large enough market share to actually be worth supporting for a web application -- given limite...

Can I use CSS in directory listing of Firefox?

For example if I put "C:\docs" in address bar of Firefox, it shows all files in the directory. Is it possible to customize this page with CSS? Apache 2.2 allows us to do it using IndexStyleSheet directive, so I wondered if Firefox can do it. ...

Firefox Javascript Events Anonymous Function

I'm attempting to register an anonymous function when a user clicks a cell in an HTML table. Here's some of the raw, unadulterated code: document.getElementById( "course"+displayed_year_index+occurrences_indices[displayed_year_index]).onclick = eval("function() {PrintReceipt("+result.years[result_year_index].rul_code+");};"...

wmv file not working in Firefox 3.0.3, Its working fine in IE

I am using following code to embed files, video with .wmv extension, that is not working in Firefox. It's working fine in IE. document.getElementById("QuestionMedia").innerHTML += '<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="350" HEIGHT="280" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..."...

Site-specific: Firefox vs. IE CSS peculiarities

I'm trying to learn CSS. I've taken great pains to get everything right. My pages all validate and they look correct on Firefox and mostly correct on Chrome. However IE is all over the place. In relation to Firefox, the following is wrong in IE (in order of importance): the main body box is pushed below where the left boxes end the upp...

Are there Javascript bindings for MySQL?

I want to access a MySQL database directly from Javascript in an HTML page in Firefox. Does such a library exist? To be very clear CGI+AJAX will not work Some background: I want to create something like a GUI front end for a MySQL database (that's not what it is but it's close enough). I'm thinking about doing this as a local HTML pag...

Firefox restarts Flash movie if enclosing DIV properties change

I have a Flash movie embedded in some DIV. The trouble is that when I change any property of the enclosing DIV dynamically, Firefox (not other browsers) restarts/reinitializes Flash movie effectively resetting the whole progress (eg: file selection for upload, etc.). Is there some sort of a workaround for this? ...

Firefox CSS: Given 2 divs, how can I float the *second* one to the right using static positioning?

I'm working on a Youtube userstyle script that displays comments side by side with the video so you can watch the video and read the comments at the same time (what a marvelous idea - duh). You can see in the screenshots how far I've got. That means I only care about Firefox, and that CSS3 goes. The problem I have is that I want to make...