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Is there a way to use Firefox and Firebug but pretend it is iPhone's Safari by faking the User Agent string? I want to use Firefox to examine the Amazon or Gmail sites and see how the page is laid out for iPhone... just for fun and for experiment. Is ...
Started by Jian Lin on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
If you're on a Windows or OS X machine you can use Safari to see how it will look.
The instructions great_llama provided, but remember that Firefox is not Safari and it probably won't lay out the page identically.
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I am trying to update a custom firefox extension that I created for some tasks at work. Basically it is a sidebar that pulls up one of our webpages in an iframe for various purposes. When moving to Firefox 3 the iframe won't appear at all.
Below is an...
Started by Dan Roberts on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It's a document loaded inside an iframe (look at the Firefox main window in the DOM inspector).
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Is the common set up for Chrome that it will use a different DNS server, while Firefox and IE will use a different one?
My Chrome (including the one on the virtual PC) will sometimes "Resolving host" and wait there for 20, 30 seconds, while Firefox and...
Started by Jian Lin on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
The features is called "Use DNS pre-fetching to improve and not anything specific to itself....
Edit: Chrome does not use it's own servers to do DNS lookups, it does, however, lookup all would be to always disable this under Options.
The Hood.
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I recently installed Firefox on Ubuntu 9.10, but now everytime I try to search using the Quick Search Firefox closes without any warning.
It's Firefox 3.5.7
Started by Roland on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
I uninstalled YSlow Extension and Firefox was fine again
Hi Roland how do you uninstall YSlow without being able to launch Firefox? Where is YSlow located to uninstall please?.
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I have an ActiveX plugin that we need (if possible) to run in Firefox. Is there a plugin (or other way) for Firefox that will allow this?
Started by ChrisTek on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
P/ff-activex-host/
"This Firefox plugin makes it possible to use ActiveX controls in FirefoxYou used to be able to in Firefox 1.5 but not any longer I believe, the plugin doesnt seem for Firefox is fairly straightforward....
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I currently use a flat-file to store data in a Firefox Extension, but think this is inadequate.
Which lightweight databases are commonly used within Firefox extensions?
Started by Mat on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Sqlite, used be ff itself.
More information, and examples of how to use the FF wrapper API, can be found on MDC .
SQLite is built in to recent versions of Firefox for use as a data-storage mechanism.
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I have jQuery code which works offline in Safari and Opera, but neither in Firefox 3.1 nor 3.08.
How can you use Firefox's JavaScript engine in offline debugging?
Started by Masi on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Or you can ....
You can install SpiderMonkey and play around with that.
For Firefox, the weapon of choice is to install Firebug .
Also you probably want to checkout FireBug, which is a FireFox plug.
I suggest using static paths.
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I need both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 on my Mac OS X for testing purposes.
Is it possible?
Started by Eugene on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
So
Open the firefox 2 dmg
Copy Firefox to Applications
Rename....
See if this approach could help solve your problem: OS X install firefox 2 firefox 3 same computer
You just need to change the application name once it is installed.
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Firefox on Vista has been grinding to a crawl and I just checked the RAM usage on this machine and found 400MB of RAM in use by Firefox.
Is this because of plugins/addons?
Started by Merkel Fastia on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Firefox in "safe" mode with no plugins and addons enabled?
Check the memory then and see if it makes, the AFOM addon:
recovers Memory Leakage within a running instance of the Firefox browser application.
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How to use 'window.open' to create new window with scrollbar in firefox?
thanks!
Started by Chris.Jie on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
To force Firefox to always show a scrollbar (like Internet Explorer does) you.
", "scrollbars=1,width=100,height=100");
but note that Firefox will only show scrollbars when the content is larger than the window.
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