Is it possible to access the clipboard in a Firefox OS app? If so, how? I know Internet Explorer has a way to do this using window.clipboarddata. However Firefox has never supported this. Do they use this method for Firefox OS or is there a different method or none at all?
This is not implemented yet, but it is planned for a future version. There is a meta bug for copy & paste support in Firefox OS that you can follow to track progress. It seems that Gecko already supports some Clipboard API events, but there is no UI yet for copy-paste in Firefox OS.
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Since last few updates of Firefox our beloved Firebug is integrated into the Firefox Developer Tools and a lot of people including me don't like what happened to Firebug.
The built-in developer tools have a very ugly menu system and messed up usability.
So, what are the alternatives to the Firefox Developer Tools? Is there a tool with the same usability as Firebug?
Alternatives are:
Turn off multi-process Firefox. (Though that's only a temporary solution and doesn't bring back all functionality of Firebug. E.g. the Script panel is broken in current versions of Firefox.)
Install an old version of Firefox where Firebug still works and disable updates. (Also only a temporary solution, because you'll miss (security) bug fixes and new features.)
Wait until the gaps between Firebug and the Firefox DevTools are fixed. (Or even help them fixing them.)
Switch to another browser and use its developer tools.
Rework Firebug to make it compatible with multi-process Firefox (which is the main reason for the integration into the DevTools). Update: Starting with Firefox 57 only WebExtensions will be supported, meaning extensions work cross-browser and are more secure, but they also have limited APIs. So, a reworked Firebug would not have all the features the original Firebug had.
Following Sebastian's advice I've downloaded old Firefox portable v47 from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Mozilla%20Firefox%2C%20Portable%20Ed./Mozilla%20Firefox%2C%20Portable%20Edition%2047.0.1/
and I'm using it with Firebug only for development. According to Firebug's website 47 is the last compatible version of Firefox:
https://getfirebug.com/downloads
To avoid compromising on security, for normal browsing I use updated version of Chrome.
Downgrading the version is not advisable, So instead of that go to the browser console and type your respective xpath in the mentioned syntax $x('path') to validate your XPath.
Or can find other similar plugin. So far I find the Plugin 'Xpather' in http://xpath.alephzarro.com/ link.
But I still would like to reactivate Firebug to rework by setting the preferences browser.tabs.remote.autostart,
browser.tabs.remote.autostart.1 and
browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2
to false via about:config.
The "Warn Before Quitting" feature stopped working for me. When I click Cmd-Q Chrome closes immediately instead of showing me the "Hold ⌘Q to close" message.
I want to debug the code responsible for that, but I can't seem to find a way. On Windows I can attach to Chrome, get the PDBs from Google's symbol server, and get the appropriate sources using SrcSrv.
Is there anything similar on OS X?
(Firefox apparently has a script to download symbols for Linux/OS X, though I never tried using it.)
It doesn't happen on another user on my machine or on Chromium. I tried copying my profile to ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome of another user and to ~/Library/Application Support/Chromium (for a Chromium build I made). In both cases the bug did not present itself (though other bad things have happened), so using Chromium doesn't seem like a solution.
(Although I did build Chromium's HEAD rather than the tag corresponding to the version of Google Chrome I'm running. Maybe if I do that I would be able to reproduce the problem in Chromium. Nonetheless the question remains.)
Is it possible to perform source debugging of Google Chrome on OS X? If so, how?
Note: I'm not interested in attempts to solve the "Warn Before Quitting" bug, suggestions to report it to Google, etc. That's not the point. I want to be able to debug Chrome myself.
I have an application which uses ActiveX controls. I want to automate this using Selenium IDE. But when i launch the application i end up in an error message "Turn on you ActiveX control". Is there any way to enable ActiveX in FireFox?
Note: I am using User Agent Switcher(as IE7) Addon of firefox to run my application.
No. Firefox doesn't support ActiveX.
"ff-activex-host" worked for me. It uses different tag, but otherwise seems to work on both firefox and chrome.
You can look around the MediaWrap extension for firefox. It is supposed to add transparent ActiveX support to Firefox.
I am not sure it already works with firefox 3.6 though and there are known limitations.
Maybe you can give it a try.
Jerome Wagner
Try this: MeadCo's Neptune.
Or this: IE Tab.
I just upgraded my mac to Firefox 3.6, and now neither of my TIFF Viewing plugins work.
in 3.5, If I had Quicktime on, then I'd get the tiff, viewed through quicktime. If I had Quicktime disabled, but my own plugin, AcellViewTIFF enabled, then I would get ViewTIFF viewing the TIFF. Since I'm the author of ViewTIFF, That's how I had it most of the time.
After I upgraded to 3.6, if ViewTIFF is enabled, I just get a blank space. if ViewTIFF is disabled, no matter whether or not Quicktime is enabled, it goes straight to preview.
Has anyone seen this?
(This is programming related because I'm writing AccelViewTIFF, and if the framework for plugins changed, I need to fix it...)
Edit to add:
This is an NPAPI plugin, I've removed or commented out the main, so I don't think that this is a CFM plugin problem.
I looked at Mozilla's "basicplugin" (located in mozilla-1-9-1-f15a2686e9a6/modules/plugin/sdk/samples/basic/mac under the standard mozilla source) and it works. I compared all of my functions to the functions in BasicPlugin, and the only function that it has that I don't is the drawPlugin function, which appears to do the actual work. All equivalent functions have the same interface.
When I remove or disable AccelViewTIFF, Firefox downloads the image and gives it to preview. When I enabled it it does nothing. This tells me that Firefox IS seeing that I have a plugin, but it's not running it for some reason.
There are no errors either in Firefox's error console or in any of the console logs I can see...
any ideas?
For the record, the problem was that this is an OLD plugin that still uses Quickdraw routines. evidently, they didn't make it into 64b, and so they don't work in FF 3.6.
Lets hear it for progress.
Are you using Leopard or Snow Leopard?
TIFF files open fine with the QuickTime 7.6.3.0 plugin with Firefox 3.6.
Go to Firefox -> Preferences -> Applications. Search for "tif" and then you can choose how Firefox handles files with the image/tiff MIME type. Set it to the plugin of your choosing. QuickTime should work (is for me on Snow Leopard).
I read that early builds of Chrome supported ActiveX, but was later restricted to certain MIME types (for support for say Windows Media Player). I then read Google was going to enable ActiveX strictly for the Korean market. How do I (re)enable this in Chrome?
Our web based product relies on ActiveX controls from 3rd parties to play custom video. This limits us to IE. We'd love to support Chrome also, but find it impossible w/o ActiveX support.
There is a proprietary plugin called "Neptune" which says that it will allow you to use IE Tab functionality in Chrome on Windows.
Meadroid do this because they have ActiveX controls which they have written and they want them to be able to work in any browser, and they explicitly mention Chrome in the list of supported browsers for enabling ActiveX with this.
There is also a modified version of Chrome, called ChromePlus, which includes IETab, among other extra features.
I've not used either of these personally, but they look like they'll do what you want. I'd be interested to hear if they work out for you, as I know of other people who want to be able to use IEtab in Chrome :)
anyone who says activex is less secure then NPAPI is crazy. They both allow the exact same access. Yes I've written both. The only reason people think activeX is insecure is because 10+ years ago IE had default settings that allowed a remote site to auto download the plugin.
maybe this new Chrome extension helps:
ActiveX for Chrome
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/lgllffgicojgllpmdbemgglaponefajn/
This could be pretty ugly, but doesn't Chrome use the NPAPI for plugins like Safari? In that case, you could write a wrapper plugin with the NPAPI that made the appropriate ActiveX creation and calls to run the plugin. If you do a lot of scripting against those plugins, you might have to be a bit of work to proxy those calls through to the wrapped ActiveX control.
I'm not an expert but it sounds to me that this is something you could only do if you built the browser yourself - ie, not something done in a web page. I'm not sure that the sources for Chrome are publicly available (I think they are though), but the sources are what you'd probably need to change for this.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_Google_Chrome_support_ActiveX
Google Chrome comes with an ActiveX
shim, as part of its default plugin
array. So Google Chrome features at
least partial support for ActiveX
controls (as do many non-Internet
Explorer browsers). I can't find
information as to whether or not this
includes support for ActiveX security
certificates or the like, nor if/where
such plugins can be controlled, within
the browser.
..... Note that to enable the plug-in
you must run Chrome with the following
switch " --allow-all-activex" So in
shortcut that is used to start up
Chrome, add this after "Chrome.exe"
I downloaded this "IE Tab Multi" from Chrome. It works good! http://iblogbox.com/chrome/ietab/alert.php