Questions tagged [firefox-3]

Version 3 of the Mozilla Firefox browser. Released on June 17, 2007. This version was supported until March 30, 2010.

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux (including Android) coordinated by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. wikipedia

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How to get the file path from HTML input form in Firefox 3

We have simple HTML form with , like shown below:
In IE7 (and probably all famous…
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Can Firefox's "view source" be set to not make a new GET request?

This is sort of tangential to coding, but programmers often do "view source" on their own pages and on others' pages. I learned that when you do the normal View Source in Firefox, it takes the URL you're at and issues another GET request to that…
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Firefox Bookmarks SQLite structure

I am trying to write a Firefox 3 add-on which will enable me to easily re-tag bookmarks. For example I have some bookmarks tagged "development" and some tagged "Development" and I would like a way to easily update all the "delelopment" tags to…
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Is there a XDomainRequest equivalent in Firefox?

Is there an equivalent to Internet Explorer's XDomainRequest in Firefox or any of the other browsers? I'd like to access a service/website outside of my domain.
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Why is Firefox 3 breaking with console.log

I have the following: console.log (a.time_ago() + ' ' + b.time_ago()); This is breaking in FireFox 3, meaning when FF hits that line in the JS, it goes no further. Strangely if I have Firebug open it doesn't break and continues as normal. Some how…
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How do I get clientX and clientY to work inside my "drag" event handler on Firefox?

Mozilla firefox 3.x seems to have a bug when listening to "ondrag" event. The event object doesn't report the position of the object being dragged, clientX, clientY and other screen offsets are all set to zero. This is quite problematic as I wanted…
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FireFox 3 line-height

Firefox 3 has introduced a new behavior in which line-height, when unset, differs from how other browsers render it. Thus, a critical section maybe render too high in that browser. Setting a global percentage doesn't work, since it's basis is…
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Firefox 3 doesn't apply my xslt stylesheet, but other browsers do

I'm trying to serve dynamically generated xml pages from a web server, and provide a custom, static, xslt from the same web server, that will offload the processing into the client web browser. Until recently, I had this working fine in Firefox 2,…
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How can I change Firefox's proxy settings from an external program?

I've seen a few programs (eg Charles Web Developer Proxy) that are able to modify Firefox's proxy settings. The sequence is: Firefox is running, with the users proxy settings. User starts the external third party application, which modifies…
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Chrome or Firefox (or browser-agnostic) for an intranet app?

If you were designing a core business intranet app for a small business, and wanted it to be as responsive-feeling as possible, where the staff are indifferent to being stuck with a certain browser, would you design for Firefox, Chrome, or test more…
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SharePoint and Firefox 3

I think most of the SharePoint developers and administrators know that with the change form Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 some functionality of SharePoint have became unavailable. Especially adding Webparts to a site and using the PeoplePicker don't work…
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Read Firefox 3 bookmarks

Firefox 3 stores the bookmarks in a sqlite database. There are several hacked sqlite java libraries available. Is there a way to hack the sqlite database in java(not using libraries) to read bookmarks reliably? Does someone know how the sqlite DB is…
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HTML 5 Reference Implementations

I'm looking for a good article or description of what HTML 5 actually is or isn't. At Google I/O last year, I kept hearing that Google Gears can be thought of as a reference implementation of HTML 5. Shortly thereafter Yahoo's BrowserPlus plugin…
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How to get Selenium working with PHP/Firefox3 on Linux

I am trying to get Selenium RC working with Firefox 3 on Linux with PHP/Apache but am experiencing problems. Here's what I've done: I have installed the Firefox Selenium-IDE extension. On the web server (which in my case is actually the same…
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Selectable input fields and textareas but no other content selectable in Firefox?

I need to prevent users from selecting elements in my web app UI, except for text in input fields and textareas. For Firefox, the technique seems to be to use this css: * { -moz-user-select: none; } And that works well enough (tested Firefox…
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