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Firefox having trouble with iFrame loading

Hey everyone, I'm having a weird issue with Firefox and loading of a PDF inside an iframe. Here is what the pages does. - Select an item from a drop down list - Load PDF inside a iframe based on the selection. All other browsers work fine except FF. One a select an item to load the status in the lower left corner says 'STOPPED'. I fi...

windows authenticated website prompt for firefox but doesn't for internet explorer

i added windows authentication on my website to track user names. For IE it works fine and is seemsless but it prompts for windows login for user using firefox. any ideas? ...

Can I get consistent CSS colors across browsers?

I'm testing a new site, and I have a div with background-color: #bbf6bb; That seems innocuous enough to me. And yet, on my MacBook Pro, the color looks very different in Firefox 3.6 vs. Safari 4. In Safari, it's the color I'd expect from the hex value: a pale green. In Firefox, there's a definite bluish tint, making the color turquois...

jquery .clone() weird behaviour in Firefox

Hi everyone. I have a following issue - I'm using jQuery to add additional input forms to the page. But added rows are not passed to the server with form submission. Here is HTML of one row: <form name="form1" method="post" action=""> <div id="input1" class="clonedInput"> <label for="answer1" class="answer_label"> Answer: </label> <i...

use javascript to intercept all document link clicks

how do I intercept link clicks in document? it must be cross-platform. I am looking for something like this: // content is a div with innerHTML var content = document.getElementById("ControlPanelContent"); content.addEventListener("click", ContentClick, false); function ContentClick(event) { if(event.href == "http://oldurl") ...

Broken images in PHP from Dropbox over https

I have a strange situation with PHP working differently from HTML. I'm not a web programmer, just messing around. In HTML my images appear fine, in PHP the images are broken. And only public images from my Dropbox https server are broken, ones from a http server work. As an example, here are two files on my localhost, abc.html and def.p...

more unordered list padding/margin cross-browser craziness

I just received this awesome help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2144010/is-there-a-way-to-extend-background-color-of-unordered-list-items-to-go-behind-bu and then I was dealing with the text-indent property to again line up the wrapped text in this unordered list, but lo and behold it looks like IE and FF are handling the padding ...

Open a direct file on the hard drive from firefox (file:///)

Hi, I have a small php system i created for myself. This system contains a few .doc and .docx file documents. I want to be able to open them directly from the browser and not downloading them. I created a link: <a href="file:///c:/mysite/myfile.docx">myfile</a> But FireFox does not open the link. While href="http://localhost/myfile....

CSS Attribute selector - Match attribute values that begin with

I am trying to identify all the <UL> that contain a menu list by defining the ID like this: <ul id="menutop"> <li><a href="#">item1</a></li> <li><a href="#">item2</a></li> <li><a href="#">item3</a></li> </ul> <ul id="menumain"> <li><a href="#">item1</a></li> <li><a href="#">item2</a></li> <li><a href="#">item3</a...

ASP session not working in IE8, working in Firefox, Chrome

I'm trying to get my site to play a flash video the first time, and only the first time, a user visits the site. Currently, I'm using ASP session tags to install a sessionid cookie into the users browsers. <% Session("name")="blah" Session.Timeout=7 %> This method works fine in FF and Chrome, but IE8 doesn't seem to want to accept the...

Browser extension to create independent cookie stores narrower than spec.

Does anyone know of a browser extension (preferably Firefox) that allows you to create independent cookie stores at a finer (and configurable) granularity than the specification? E.g. say http://a.example.com/ first sends Set-Cookie: a=bar; expires=Fri, 31-Dec-2010 23:59:59 GMT; path=/; domain=.example.com So clearly this would also ...

Bash open Firefox Window, then each subsequent window in tabs

Hi Folks, I know as long as Firefox has the "New pages should be opened in - a new tab" selected, the following code will open specified urls in new tabs to the firefox window last selected. firefox '<url here>' Works great. However with many tabs to open the user needs to leave computer as until all open as desired. Is it possible...

Linux Firefox default sans-serif font

Which font is the default "sans-serif" font in Linux? When I go in Windows to Options, Font, Advanced I can see that the default sans-serif font is Arial, but in Linux it only shows "sans-serif" as a font by itself. Any idea how can I check which "sans-serif" font is this? ...

Embed an application (exe file) into another exe file (mozEmbed like)

I would like to embed mozilla firefox into my application WITHOUT using any activex control (TWebBrowser wrapper, mozilla ActiveX...). I tried using TWebBrowser (actually bsalsa's embedded webBrowser wich is by far better), but all versions of IE seem incompatible with some features of popular javascript framework and libs (JQuery, ExtJS...

childNodes not working in Firefox and Chrome but working in IE

I have a gridview in its 3rd cell, there is textbox control, I am calling javascript function on onchange. Can some body tell me why this is not working in Firefox and Chrome but working in IE grd.rows[rowindex].cells[3].childNodes[0].value It return correct value in IE but not in Chrome and firefox (In FF and Chrome it return undefi...

XUL shortcut keys

Hi Friend, I am developing a Firefox add-on, and for that I have used overlay, now I want that if somebody presses the key like control+j it should open my extension, and if somebody presses ctrl+space it should execute a JavaScript function. I tried this: <keyset id="mainKeyset"> <key id="keyOpen" keycode="VK_J" oncommand="docume...

Problem displaying content added from parent window to child window in Firefox

Here is the code I am using to create and add content to a new window via JavaScript: var newWindow = window.open(); newWindow.document.title = "This is my new window"; newWindow.document.body.innerHTML = "<center>This is content added from the parent window</center>"; This works in every browser I have tested except ...

Problem in executing the javascipt code in address bar

I really don't know whether i am supposed to ask such question here or not. But anyways, I am trying to run the following javascript code on address bar*: javascript:if ( document.getElementById('meebo') ) document.getElementById('meebo').style.display='none'; this meebo bar on any website is just an annoyance :x . Now the problem...

Change line break characters in HTML

In Firefox a '/' breaks a line, but in chrome the line continues. How can I tell chrome to allow a line break on '/'? This is a problem for the middle table on http://webnumbr.com/api ...

Javascript Dojo AJAX (XHR) Requests with Custom Headers in Firefox

I'm trying to make a request using dojo.xhrGet to grab some XML data from a server. I'm using dojo 1.4.0. The server requires that I pass credentials through a custom HTTP header called Myauthtoken. Everything works fine in Safari. The code pops up a dialog showing [object Document]. But in Firefox, the dialog shows null. Somewhere ...