firefox3.5

Why is my text messed up in Firefox 3.5 in Windows 7? (see pic) How can I fix this?

It only happens on some web pages, and only for some text items. On splurb.com, it is happening all over: http://scottelkin.com/images/splurb.jpg ...

Geolocation provider for Firefox that allows manual input

Are there any easy ways to override the default behaviors of the geolocation api and just hard code your current location? I think this would be useful for testing and for privacy reasons (providing fake location data) I thought there was an add on for this but I can't seem to find one. Only option right now seems to be changing the a...

subsequent click eaten on img inside anchor tag, firefox 3.5.5

Hi, given the following test: http://snipplr.com/view/23898/ I have a series of pages with 96x96 thumbnails in the same spot and I want people to be able to continuously click the thumbs. I'm seeing weirdness in Firefox 3.5.5... if you don't move your mouse AT ALL after clicking the red box once, (after the page reloads) when you clic...

Should setting `checkbox.checked = false` not clear the HTML attribute too?

Here's my HTML: <input id="test" type="checkbox" checked=""> Here's a Firebug excerpt: >>> test <input id="test" type="checkbox" checked=""> >>> test.checked = false false >>> test <input id="test" type="checkbox" checked=""> Um...am I missing something, or should that last line not read the following? <input id="test" type="che...

HTML5 Video and degradation?

I've been playing around with the HTML5 video tag and I'm puzzled as to how best to degrade when you can't support a codec? For older browsers (or IE) that don't support the video tag at all this quite is straight forward: <video width="320" height="240"> <source src="vid.ogv" type='video/ogg'> <source src="vid.mp4" type='video/mp...

Can Firefox use an SVG for a background

Can Firefox 3.5 use an SVG for a background image? ...

Attempting to use Segoe font in browser

I want to render a page with fonts mostly being font-family:"Segoe" (that line goes in the appropriate class selectors which I've verified are working), however I get back a standard font (times new roman I think). Why won't it work? I am on Windows-7 64 bit so it's installed. ...

jQuery div hover function not working in Firefox

http://cambridgeuplighting.com/testimonials This code works in Safari, IE7, and IE8, but not in FF 3.5.7. The code changes the background of the little background icon when you hover over a div. jQuery(function( $ ){ $('.oneThird').hover(function(){ $(this).find('span.icon').css( {'background-position-y': '-60px'} ); }, function()...

Inpupt box animation in jQuery leaves a "trail", any way to get rid of it?

Using jQuery to animate a ASP.net textbox when it's focused leaves a trailing animation in Firefox 3.5. The effect can be seen here or here with .stop() added, both exhibit the effect. The effect is no longer visible after modifying the input box to have no border, this can be seen here. The top box has no border and has no trailing...

Why browser.search.defaulturl is not present in about:config file?

Why browser.search.defaulturl is not present in about:config file? I want to change default searchbox engine in firefox. Please help ...

How to read directory using jQuery .ajax()?

Using jQuery .ajax() to read "./ex.html" returns the expected contents of the file in the first alert box. Using the same call just changing the request to "./" does not return an expected directory listing in the second alert box. <html> <head> </head> <body> <script type="text/JavaScript" src="jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/...

problems with execCommand justification in Firefox?

I am building a very simple WYSWIG editor for a div with contenteditable = "true". I am using execCommand to do simple formatting such as bold, italicize, and underline along with text justification. PROBLEM: Bold, italic, underline all work but using justifyCenter (or any justify) doesn't work in Firefox but works in Chrome and Safari...

At IE7, action "javascript:history.back()" in JSP jump back to main page, not previous viewed page.

Below are the code pieces in one jsp page, the function is to jump back to previous page, it works on Firefox 3.5, but does not work on IE7, at IE7, it will jump back to main index page. how to enhance it to support IE7/Firefox at the same time? <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO...