Questions tagged [firefox]
An open-source web browser developed by Mozilla. If relevant to the question, also include the tag of your operating system.
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How to get Firefox to use MS TrueType fonts for Helvetica, Times, etc?
I'm using (Windows) TrueType fonts on my Ubuntu workstation (details), and am mostly happy with how fonts look, both in desktop apps and on the web (using Firefox).
However, on some web pages, like ...
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Can't upload files or attachments
I have tried several times to upload files to my blog and attach files to GMail emails. Each time, the file says "uploading" however the process never completes. Do you have any suggestions on what ...
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Cross platform bookmark files
I spend my day at work on Windows XP and at home on OS X. I use Firefox on both. I have certain folders sync'ed where I like to drag and drop links to look at later. On XP the link files are saved as ....
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Prevent URLs from specific domains from being saved in Firefox history
I want to prevent or block URLs of specific domains from being saved or shown in my history. I want to be able to go to these certain websites normally, just not have them saved and not have to use ...
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View unknown content-types in Firefox?
A certain URL on my server returns Content-Type: application/json. The filename ends with .phtml, so whenever I go to it, Firefox 3.5 asks me if I want to save it or open it with another program. ...
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How to display DNS cache in Ubuntu 9.04 running Firefox?
How to display DNS cache in Ubuntu 9.04 running Firefox?
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How Do I Disable URL Pre-Pending in the FireFox 3 Title Bar When Opeing A New Window With JavaScript?
For (understandable) security reasons, Firefox does not allow JavaScript to open a new window without the address/location bar AND without pre-pending the page's URL to the title in the title bar.
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Close tab that has a JavaScript pop-up dialog
I was opening up a bunch of links in different tabs when one of them had a JavaScript pop-up dialog.
It was trying to force me to download something and no matter how many times I clicked "Cancel" ...
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Remove context menu item from Firefox
Is there a way to remove the context menu items in Firefox?
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Blocking Experts-Exchange from my Google results and/or computer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible with Google searches to ban any and all results from a domain?
The site Experts-Exchange is very annoying. How can I block it from my Google results? ...
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how to Create browser shortcut which will open certain pages?
I don't like desktop email management softwares, such as outlook or zimbra, in the same time, i own more than 5 important email accounts,and want to keep updated when i receive any email on any of ...
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Image filtering in Firefox on Linux
I'm using the firefox-3.5 package (Shiretoko) on Kubuntu 9.04. I've noticed that if it scales an image, unlike on Windows, it does not apply a nice bilinear or bicubic filter to it. In other words, ...
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Clipboarding Firefox RSS Links
How can I copy the RSS link which is behind the button in the addressbar into the clipboard? Left-clicking allows me to subscribe to the Feed with Firefox and right-clicking brings up the toolbar ...
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Why does firefox load significantly faster on the second launch?
I mean the second process launch. I startup the process (on Linux, using any version 3.x), it takes 5 seconds to load. Then I kill the process. There is no instance of firefox running. I startup ...
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what's the problem of using 4 browser at the sametime on one pc? [closed]
I have four browsers on my computer. They are:
Internet Explorer 8
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
Opera
The default browser is Firefox. My problem is that sometimes the other browsers (except Firefox) will ...
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Firefox search engine for local google (.com.au)
Is there a way to make my Firefox 3.5 "Google" search engine use google.com.au rather than google.com?
Ideally I'd like that change Ubiquity to do that as well.
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IE tab for ubuntu
Is there any way to use Firefox IE tab in ubuntu platform. Any other way to test the page how it will shown by IE
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What's the Firefox add-on to dim the whole page of a site?
I upgraded my PC and foolishly thought I knew all the add-ons that I used so wouldn't need to write them down!
Basically I had an add-on that I thought was called something like 'lights out' or ...
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Using minefield and Firefox on the same machine
I'm using the normal Firefox 3.5.3 right now, but sometimes I read about some features that work in the development version(nicknamed Minefield) and I would like to take a look at them.
To that end, ...
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Firefox extension don't work in Windows 7 RTM
I used MozBackup to backup my Firefox profile and after I installed Firefox on Windows 7 I simply restored the profile using Mozback up again.
Everything worked perfectly but strangely all my ...
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Firefox: non-Vimperator way to do mouseless browsing?
Is it possible to do efficient browsing with Firefox using
only the keyboard (like in Opera)?
By efficient I mean something faster than using TAB - this
takes far too long. The arrow keys should be ...
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Firefox Addon that recognize url and transform it to a Link
I'm looking for an Firefox addon that recognizes URLs on a webpage that are plain text and transform it to a real link.
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Yahoo search has taken over Firefox
Somehow Yahoo has been added as the default search provider in Firefox. How can I get rid of it and go back to Google?
I recently installed the "Tab Mix Plus" Firefox extension, so I suspect that ...
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Why is Firefox not showing the whole feed?
So, I have this feed. I know it's a full text feed because that's what I selected in WordPress and I checked it in Chrome and confirmed that.
However, Firefox is only showing snippets of my posts. ...
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Firefox bookmarks folder icon
Is there a way to assign a custom icon to a folder in Firefox bookmarks?
That way not all folders would look the same, so I could delete the names and save some space in the bookmarks bar.
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Blocking only Flash and animated GIF images
What options are there for blocking Flash and animated GIF ads while keeping static image and text-only ads?
I'm interested in solutions for Firefox on Windows/Linux and Safari on OS X.
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How do I fix Internet Explorer / Firefox differences in Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise?
Our company uses Oracle's JD Edwards Enterprise to do accounting work. We have an application consultant working for us to just deal JD Edwards but he is of non-technical background so only helps in ...
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Is it possible to get Safari / OS X style font rendering in Chrome or Firefox? How?
I prefer the OS X / Safari-on-Windows font rendering engine over Windows' ClearType, but I am not fond of Safari as a browser. Given that Chrome also uses Webkit, is it possible to enable/port the ...
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Web browsers -is there a way to disable reload on a per site basis?
Driving me nuts - I love using rich and feature-full webapps, but I hate what happens when I accidentally reload the page. And since I'm all about the keyboard shortcuts, it is just too easy for me to ...
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In Firefox, is there a shortcut to paste the content of the X buffer directly into the search box?
In particular when programming, it's handy to post error messages in Firefox' search box, to see what Google has to say on the matter :) On linux and particularly X11, it's even more handy since you ...
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Is there any way to get the Firefox API’s
Is there any way to get firefox Api so that i can access them programatially
There any other method other than XPCom
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Problems in Login into Google using Firefox
I use Firefox3.5.3 using this i am unable to login in many websites if click on the login button itself an error message is coming . I dont what is the problem .if i try to login to google from ie or ...
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How to open multiple firefox windows with distinct sessions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Firefox: Using multiple instances with different profiles?
I'd like to open two or more firefox windows and have distinct sessions in each.
For instance:
I open window 1, ...
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Spell Check Plugin for Firefox [closed]
I am looking for a spell check plug in for firefox, what is a good one?
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Change Firefox's Remembered Passwords, Credentials
So if you've got Firefox remembering your credentials for passwords, and you know where that password file is located, how exactly do you change those credentials if you entered them incorrectly and ...
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Firefox submit form into new tab?
In Safari, if you command-click (Mac) or Control-click (windows) a form submit button, the form submits to a new tab, just as if you command/control-clicked a link. Is there any way to replicate this ...
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In Firefox, is it possible to save a webpage as a PDF?
I'm using Firefox on linux exclusively.
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Can I make Firefox's Search Bar open page in new tab?
I'm using Firefox 3.5.3 with a Google as my default search.
When use the search toolbar at the top of the screen, is there a way to show the search results in a new tab?
Right now the search results ...
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Save web site usernames but not passwords in Firefox
Quick summary: I want Firefox to remember and autofill usernames, but not save passwords.
Since a lot of web sites use email addresses as usernames and I regularly use a disposable email address ...
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Remove URLs by domain from Firefox history and awesome bar
At my job, we recently move a lot of back-end services (e.g. ticket tracking, reporting, admin) from one server to another. Unfortunately, the way that our servers are configured, we're not using ...
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How to make Safari 4's location bar intelligent like Firefox 3?
My favorite feature of Firefox 3 is its incredible location bar. Type a few letters of any bookmark name or url or the title of any page you've visited recently or its url and it will work some query ...
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Firefox addon for GMailing an image found on the web
Is there a firefox add on somewhere out there that enables you to attach a file (it would be preferable if it worked as a general case, enabling all kinds of files) with a new gmail message and email ...
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How does firefox know what the RSS link for a site is?
If I go to a site like http://blogs.msdn.com/ashleyf/ with Firefox, it has a little RSS icon on the address bar that you can use to subscribe to the feed. Something like Google Chrome doesn't have ...
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How to uninstall a Fire fox add-on that doesn't want to be uninstalled?
Let's say I installed a program, called "E" . Said program requests to install a Firefox add-on. Now the add-on doesn't work due to being incompatible. Because it came with E i uninstall E planning ...
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Firefox addons on seamonkey
Many addons for firefox don't work on seamonkey. Is there any risk in overriding the security settings? Or is there perhaps a tool that allows for compatibility?
I like the idea of a calendar and ...
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firefox flash drags performance down
I have an old notebook with a hardware profile like this :
cpu: Intel Celeron 1.5GHZ
ram: 1G
os : winxp sp2
browser: firefox 3.5.3
I found when I browse web pages with embeded flash ads or video ...
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Want to print selectively a web page in firefox Can I do it?
I just want to print a portion of a web page.Printee is a addon for IE which can do the job in IE.Is there a facility available in firefox?
sarathy
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How to see list of open Firefox windows in Ubuntu without using ALT-TAB?
I have a dock-style application in Ubuntu (Avant Window Navigator) that lets me cycle between Firefox windows with ALT-TAB.
However, ALT-TAB irritates my RSI pain.
Would there be any way to see the ...
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Copy rectangle selection in firefox
How do I select a rectangular area of text in firefox? My goal is to copy some columns from a html table.
I would like to select only the b and c columns (b1,c1,b2,c2 values) for this table:
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How to install .js file into Greasemonkey?
Where is the ability to install custom GreaseMonkey scripts? I've installed greasemonkey. My dialog box under tools only has GreaseMonkey -> [Enabled, Manage User Scripts..., New User Scripts..., User ...
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