Firefox

how to find gelocation bar

Posted in Firefox on March 22nd, 2010 by Saba – Be the first to comment

I am creating an extension and change the popup that Firefox brings up when a website requests geolocation data. you can change it with XUL overlays? What if you ID the popup? you can use to find Sun Ispector ID popup because I can not.

modify geolocation bar

Posted in Firefox on March 22nd, 2010 by Saba – Be the first to comment

When a website asks to give him my geolocation position firefox brings up a popup that asks me whether or not to grant my geolocation position. I can modify this popup with overlay in XUL? if i can, what is the ID of the popup and can I view it with the DOM extension Ispector?

visited link color

Posted in Firefox on March 22nd, 2010 by Saba – 1 Comment

It drives me crazy when I advance through pages like this as I try to remember what links I have visited.

http://ap.tbo.com/breaking/national/

How can I override their page link color styles? The Firefox configuration “Allow pages to change their own fonts….” does not affect it.

newbie

Firefox 3.5 compatibility: ContextUtils

Posted in Firefox on March 22nd, 2010 by Saba – Be the first to comment

mozMatchesSelector is not supported. Maybe try jQuery.is?

contextutils.js

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ var aua = Utils.absolutifyUrlAttribute, ok = selector; if (typeof ok !== “function”) ok = !selector ? Boolean : function gsn_ok(node) { * return node.nodeType === ELEMENT && node.mozMatchesSelector(selector); }; for (let i = 0, l = sel.rangeCount; i < l; ++i) { let range = sel.getRangeAt(i), node = range.startContainer;

Posted in Firefox on March 22nd, 2010 by Saba – Be the first to comment

Why are you indicating that the feature is trademarked?

cheers, mike

On 2010-03-21, at 8:36 PM, J M R wrote:

Posted in Firefox on March 22nd, 2010 by Saba – Be the first to comment

Dear Mozilla developers,

please take into consideration adding “delayed tab loading” (TM) to Firefox.

It would be the best feature that firefox could have since the introduction of tabs.

This same functionality is provided by the extension BarTab [1] (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/67651) but this should be done by Firefox itself.

“Delayed Tab Loading” (TM) has an enormous impact on Firefox’s performance and usability.

Loading Firefox with several, even little as only ten (10), will severely impact on Firefox performance. Not only the browser will become slow and unresponsive, but so will the system as the Firefox tries to load every tab at the same time, slowing everything down. This can take several minutes where the user can’t even use the few, already loaded, tabs.

With “Delayed Tab Loading” (TM), like BarTab, only the active tab will be loaded by default, all others will be loaded *on demand*. The reduces greatly the time taken by Firefox to start and be operational, both increasing performance and usability.

The startup time improvements that you are pursuing will be nothing compare to this.

[1] BarTab stop working with the late nightlies (therefore the reason for my request but that has since been corrected) and still doesn’t officially support nightlies.

Thank You.

Memory use by tab?

Posted in Firefox on March 22nd, 2010 by Saba – Be the first to comment

Are there any extensions out there (or is it even possible to create an extension) that shows how much memory is being used by any given tab? I often find that Fx is using a lot of memory, and I find that it is a particular tab (like one on a flash page) that is using most of it. Often I can just close that tab and Fx goes back to normal memory usage. If I could tell which tabs are hogging memory it would help me control memory use.

Delete bookmark descriptions en masse

Posted in Firefox on March 21st, 2010 by Saba – 2 Comments

“Avatar” wrote…

Netscape?

Posted in Firefox on March 21st, 2010 by Saba – 6 Comments

While researching a Thunderbird failure, I found a registry entry (using the Spybot: Search and Destroy tool):

HK_CU:(User S-1-5-21-298….lots more digits… Mozilla Quick Launch “C:PROGRA~1NETSCAPENETSCP.EXE” -turbo

With it turned off both TB and FF are in the quick launch tray on the left.

A file search for netscp yields a lot of stuff in what appears to be Thunderbird’s Profile director.

What is it? Do I need it?

Delete bookmark descripions en masse

Posted in Firefox on March 21st, 2010 by Saba – 3 Comments

On Mar 21, 1:47 pm, “Avatar” wrote: