firefox

ASP.NET Help! FireFox is eating my cookies!

IE works fine, but FireFox does not. I am setting a cookie on my default.aspx page: HttpCookie hc = new HttpCookie("guid", guid.ToString()); hc.Expires = DateTime.Parse("12/12/2010"); Response.Cookies.Add(hc); My upload control (I'm using SWFUpload) submits to upload.aspx. On upload.aspx I call: if (Request.Cookies[...

I can't prevent key presses from changing a selected option in Firefox

Using Firefox 3.5.7 The following test page should behave like Opera, Safari and Chrome. Key presses (arrows or 1-5) should have no effect (i.e. The events should be cancelled so that the number never changes from the initial default "3"). [I have separate working code for IE too]. Many thanks to anyone who can make it work? <html...

Maximum length of a String Preference in Firefox ?

I would like to know what is the maximum length of a String when saving in the classic preferences System: var prefs = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/preferences-service;1"] .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefBranch); prefs.setCharPref("com.exemple.namespace.preference", potentiallyLongString); Couldn't find it...

About Geolocation in HTML 5

Google Maps can now pinpoint my location with street precision with the help of Firefox. I understand this is a new feature of HTML 5 compatible browsers and that the location is fetched by using some sort of feature of the connected WiFi network (I hope I'm not making any silly assumptions). What I intend to know is how this whole pro...

SWFUpload, why doesnt Firefox POST?

I implemented SWFUpload on my site and it works great in IE, but in Firefox no data is POSTed to the server. I have verified this using Charles. I noticed from the debug info that in IE the last two lines read: SWF DEBUG: Event: uploadSuccess: File ID: SWFUpload_0_0 Response Received: true Data: SWF DEBUG: Event: uploadComplete : ...

Does Firefox display images as they are retrieved?

I have the test code below. I was expecting Firefox to display the first image, execute the delay and suspend the retrieval of the second image then display "Hello" and the second image. Why is it displaying everything at once after the delay? UPDATE: I need to add more clarification. I am NOT trying to write production code. I read th...

Does document.body.innerHTML = "" clear the web page?

When I refresh the page below in FF 3.0, I expected the web page to clear but it didn't. Why doesn't document.body.innerHTML = "" clear the page? UPDATE: I am trying to clear the previous screen during a refresh while the new page is loading. I actually want to see the page clear, wait and then the next js running. I don't want to clea...

.Net Add-ons for Firefox ?

Can we write some add-ons for Firefox with .Net Framework (C# or VB) ? ...

How can you trigger the reload of firefox on file save?

Hi, I'm curious with all the webservers reloading the code on save, can't we just make firefox do the same when in develop mode? any hints on how to do this? ...

Reading Firefox Bookmarks

Apparently, latest Firefox versions stores its bookmarks in a file called 'places.sqlite'. Like a browser can import the bookmarks from another browser, I would want to import the bookmarks to a file, but I need to know what would you need to do it? ...

Can you test for browser support for -moz-linear-gradient?

I would like to use feature detection to tell whether the user's version of Firefox supports the CSS style value -moz-linear-gradient. (This was added in Gecko 1.9.2. Version 3.6 of Firefox uses this.) I can't use document.body.style.mozLinearGradient (or something similar) because -moz-linear-gradient is not a style property but a styl...

parsing HTML with Firefox

uri = 'http://www.nytimes.com/'; searchuri = 'http://www.google.com/search?'; searchuri += 'q='+ encodeURIComponent(uri) +'&btnG=Search+Directory&hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop'; req = new XMLHttpRequest(); req.open('GET', searchuri, true); req.onreadystatechange = function (aEvt) { if (req.readyState == 4) { if(req.status == 200) { ...

XUL textbox addEventListener

I'm trying to detect when a user hits escape or enter when in a xul textbox (firefox extension). But the following code doesn't seem to work. Any assistance would be much appreciated. const KEY_ENTER = 13; const KEY_ESCAPE = 27; function keyPressed(e) { switch (e.keyCode) { case KEY_ENTER: // do something ...

how can I make my site load as fast in Internet Explorer, as it does in Firefox?

hi, Below is the sample html code i using in my webpage <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </h...

Vertical positioning (stacking) of elements incorrect in IE

Hello. I have this simple: <script type="text/javascript"> $("#message").fadeIn("slow"); </script> <div id='message' style="display: none;"> <span>Hey, du har fået +1 points, du har nu <u>2929</u></span> <a href="#" class="close-notify" onclick="closeNotice()">X</a> </div> And i have a design on my site. When i use this, it w...

auto repeat the up/down arrow key?

in firefox when im inside a input textbox and press down the up/down arrow key it doesn't autorepeat. how can i make that happen and control how many keypress it will fire up per sec? UPDATE: i use: $('#search_view #search').live('keydown', function(event) { if(event.keyCode == 40) { // code } }); but it just execute t...

jquery set timeout error

I have a simple jQuery AJAX funciton: $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "json/" + address, dataType: "json", timeout: 1000, data: "username=" + username + "&paging_limit=" + paging_limit, success: function(json){alert("somthing")}, error: function(){alert("somthing else")} }); I get the following error in Firefox (3.6) when the req...

Calling all javascript/jquery expert - How Does Firefox processes javascript

Hi, I just created an image gallery at http://nu-lightbox.appspot.com/, a google app engine. I tested this website with firefox 3.5 in Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. If you open the website and click on the circular blue arrowed button, you will notice how jaggy (not smooth) the animation is. The weird thing is when I open the HTML pag...

Onload-script not working in Firefox

I'm writing a customer form, where a drop down menu should be automatically set to the appropriate option if the window.top.document.url is known. To achieve this I do a <body onload='javascript:init([Generic value])' which calls function init(value) { if (value) { document.getElementById('RefererURL').value = window.to...

Firefox in macosx is not displaying xml tree

Hello experts! I have currently changed to Mac from Ubuntu and for some reason viewing xml files in Firefox differ between the two. In Ubuntu Firefox(3.5) I get a XML tree but in Mac OS(10.6) Firefox(3.6) i get plain text. To se the xml tree i need to check the source. It is the same xml file. Could someone please explain why and how t...