firefox

Firefox rendering gone WRONG - see something really weird...

Hey guys I have the following is really weird. Bassically when I view the source of the page everything looks fine but the page looks all wrong. So I decided to take a look at the source using firebug and firebug shows a very different story. But if I refresh the page the page looks fine and the source and firebug match up. See below ...

Is there a bug in ASP.NET's User-Agent interpretation for custom builds of Firefox?

For the user agent string Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) HttpContext.Current.Request.Browser.MajorVersion returns 3 and HttpContext.Current.Request.Browser.MinorVersion returns 5. So far so good. However for this user agent string (seen in the wild by one of m...

Why doesn't Firefox redownload images already on a page?

Hello, i just read this article : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTTP_Caching_FAQ There's a firefox behavior (and some other browsers i guess) i'd like to understand : if i take any webpage and try to insert the same image multiple times in javascript, the image is only downloaded ONCE even if i specifiy all needed headers to say "do...

Viewing word office document in java applet inside firefox.

Hi, I am trying to view a .doc/.docx microsoft word files in a webpage on firefox. When all failed i tried creating an applet that will hold an instance of Word OLE to view the document. I created the applet using: org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.OleClientSite, and with in eclipse it works fine and i can see Word inside. I created a .jar fi...

html <button> tag renders strangely in Firefox

Hi, I have the following code that basically displays a <button>, and inside the button two <div>s, one aligned at the top-left corner of the button, the other aligned at the bottom-right corner: <html> <head> <style> <!-- .button { width: 300px; height: 200px; background-color: yellow; positio...

Digest authentication not working on IE8, Firefox and Chrome are fine

Hi all, I have a website with digest authentication required and when I browse it with IE8, it gives me 401 even the password is correct. Firefox and Chrome works correctly. I checked the authorization headers with Fiddler, everything seems fine. Can you give me any hints on the problem? p.s. Additionally I do have the same problem wit...

Why won't SWFUpload execute the upload.aspx code, and why is it saving all files to the root directory?

I am using SWFUpload v2.2. In IE (8):   If I upload a very tiny file (16kb):      1) The file appears in the root directory where upload.aspx is located.      2) Page_Load on upload.aspx.cs is executed.      3) The file is actually processed by the Page_Load procedure, and the processed file is saved in the correct location.   If ...

Using SWFUpload, why are my uploads not being proceesed by upload.aspx when using Firefox (they are processed correctly in IE)?

Using SWFUpload v2.2, Firefox 3, IE 8, Flash 10 In my ASP.NET application all uploads are being processed by upload.aspx (I have the correct upload_url set in the settings object). Can anyone tell me why (in Firefox) the uploads never hit the upload.aspx page? Most of the code for the page that the user visits to upload a file is show...

Can greasemonkey delete cookies from a given domain?

Can greasemonkey delete cookies from a given domain? If so, how? ...

Why is there extra "white space" between these floated Div's in FF and not IE?

Why is there so much extra space in FireFox between the two floated blocks? <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> #Container-900px { width:900px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; } #Container-900px .left { float:left; width:435px; height:300px; } #Container-900px .right { float:right; width:435px; height...

Why is console.log statements not appearing in my FireBug console anymore?

I'm using FF 3.6 and FireBug 1.5.0 my console.log statements are no longer appearing in my firebug console. is anyone else experiencing this? is there a setting somewhere that got switched that I don't know about? ...

Help needed for non-IE browser compatibility in JavaScript

My code works in IE but not in Firefox. I am trying to get the onmousedown and onmouseup events to work as well as the functions swapFE, swapEF and setUpTranslation in a browser other than IE. I basically have French phrases that appear upon the browser loading and when I click down on a phrase with my mouse they should translate to Eng...

Firefox (3.6) Selectbox State and Browser Back Button

I have a page that has a selectbox that changes the window.location using hashes to modify the hash state when an option is selected. This allows a user to click forward and back to navigate the different select options. All works well until you click a link to navigate away from the page and then click the browser's back button to attem...

CSS that only applies to Chrome?

This is my site: http://portable-ebook-reader.net The search bar at the top is made up of two background images. One is for where you'd type in the search phrase, the second is the actual button to search. My problem is that in Chrome the search button image is 2px too HIGH. But it looks perfect in IE and FF. And if I modify the CSS...

trying to limit window resizing. how to do it?

I'm trying to set a limitation for down sizing the browser window. I managed to resize to desirable size if resizing under this limit, but it only works in FF(not in IE and Chrome). My questions are: What's the best way for limiting resizing? Why doesnt resizeTo does not work on Chrome and IE? ...

problem with image scaling in safari for fluid design

I'm trying to make a fluid website where you can see the website full screen on different size monitors, for images I'm using height:100% and Width:100%, everything looks ok in firefox,IE8 but in Safari and Google chrome the image gets distorted,does anyone know why this happens? thanks <div id="main_wrapper"> <img id="main_bg" src="...

ASP.NET TextBox OnTextChanged triggered twice in Firefox

Hi I'm facing a weird problem that only happens in FF. I have a TextBox control with OnTextChanged handler. The event handler is working fine most of the time, but when the user changed the text and press Enter in FF, the OnTextChanged event is called twice. I observed the problem in Firebug that the first request is actually canceled be...

Flicker of unstyled content in Firefox

Hi, I built this site a couple of years back and but am now in the process of moving it to a new server. However. I've noticed there is a split second of unstyled content show on page load when viewed in Firefox (3.5.7)? And on checking in IE8, a less frequent and slightly more raggged effect also happens but only prior to caching? T...

Firefox: Disabling exit alert boxes?

Is it possible to completely disable the JavaScript exit alert boxes that spring up when I try to leave the page? I'm running Firewatir on Ubuntu. ...

Setting up a Proxy to record Firefox requests

I'm using Ruby+Watir to request pages through Firefox. I would like to record the headers and content of every http request made through the browser. Would it be possible to configure a proxy solution to store this information, either in a file or pipe it straight into an application? Could I use something such as squid or nginx to rec...