I'm trying to locate the "throbber" (or "spinner") image used in the Firefox 3.6x chrome to show that a request is being processed:
Firefox throbber http://i49.tinypic.com/kd7bth.png
I'm not familiar with the source code structure for Firefox, and a simple search hasn't yielded the answer.
Does anyone know which file I'm looking for? (E.g. can you provide a link to the file in the Mercurial repository, or tell me how to find it?).
Inside of your Firefox installation it's inside chrome/classic.jar, the path is: skin/classic/global/media/throbber.png
I'm not sure where it is in the Mozilla repository though.
Here's some info on how to customize it: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Throbber_URL
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I am trying to build my own version of Firefox with slight UI changes and by adding some addons(extensions) to the build.
I have downloaded the source code from repo. Where would I start to achieve this?
Which all codes hold the UI structuring? Where do I put my addon xpi files?
PS: I tried to read the Mozilla documentation. Its either kinda outdated or I am not really getting it? A detailed insight would be much appreciated.
Addons
To do this, simply place the extensions in the distribution/extensions
directory in the application's distribution directory.
Here are the extension
https://dxr.mozilla.org/aviary101branch/source/browser/extensions
Flags In firefox
https://dxr.mozilla.org/aviary101branch/source/browser/config/mozconfig
Do more with themes
https://dxr.mozilla.org/aviary101branch/source/themes/modern
https://dxr.mozilla.org/aviary101branch/source/browser/themes
For Editing you may need XUL
https://www.xul.fr/tutorial/
Components
Go here and customize every component you need
https://dxr.mozilla.org/aviary101branch/source/browser/components
Have a requirement to print html or html from vb6 application using only firefox as we have already for IE. So, need command to print using firefox.exe.
Something like this firefox.exe -print http://www.google.com which is not working. Is there anyway to do this? Thanks for your help.
There is no built-in support for a -print command line switch. See this document for the different command line switches supported for the Firefox browser. Support for such functionality would most probably have to be implemented through an extension.
If no extension exists that currently offers what your looking for, a Google search yielded this mozillaZine forum thread: "Printing to file from Commandline?" You could have a look at the discussion, or download and modify the referenced add-on from the source link.
Or else, you could always create your own application (probably not in VB6) by embedding the Gecko layout, but since the Mozilla killed the embedding API a while back, you'll have a lot of integration work to do (or else you could go with another layout engine like Webkit).
You can use the built in webbrowser control to print html via IE: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?384076-Webbrowser-Control-Tip-and-Examples
If you must use firefox, there was a firefox active x control but I have not used it and dont know the status:
mozilla firefox activeX
or
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm
or
https://bitbucket.org/geckofx
It also looks like there is a webkit floating around online (google it)
Back in the earlier days of the internet I remember that in certain browsers, every time you downloaded an image or a file, the URL of where that file was downloaded from would be written into that file's properties (I guess the summary tab?). I think Netscape v2 did this if I remember correctly.
I really miss that kind of functionality as every once in a while I'll run into a neat little program stored somewhere in the depths of my hard drive and wonder where I got it from originally.
I googled around but I'm not quite sure what terms to use to describe what I'm looking for. So I'm wondering if anyone knows of a Firefox plug-in or something similar that would do this?
If you use the DownThemAll! extension for Firefox, you can tell it to prepend the URL of the site to the downloaded file name...
thus you end up with files like:
download.com_utils_compression_ABCD32.exe
It also works really well when you want to download/queue a bunch of files.
You download http://example.com/foo to ~/Desktop/foo, and you want to see the originating URL in the properties of the local file foo?
Back when I used OS X, I remember Safari used to record the original URL in the resource fork of the downloaded file. Can't remember what the named fork is, well, named, but it'll show up in the properties panel from Finder. Since it's there, Spotlight will probably index it, too, but I haven't used OS X since 10.3.
If you use Opera, and haven't cleared the file out from your download manager, select the download and it'll show the original URL that the file is from in the properties pane.
Is this what you want? If so... well, I don't know of a similar Firefox extension, but it'll clarify the question.
For the IE Browser I use the hell out of Fidler to look at all traffic going across the wire.
For FireFox, you can use the FireBug plugin. There is a "Net" tab that will show you request information that is going across the wire.
Most of the time you can use one of these tools to see what URL was requested in order to start a download. You can also view all the get and post information that might need to be sent in order to have your request succeed.
Fidler is here: http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/
FireBug is here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
Best of Luck!
I'm trying to load an image from the Firefox cache as the title suggests. I'm running Ubuntu, so the location of my cache is /home/me/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.default/Cache
However, in the Cache (and this is on Mac, too) the filenames are just ridiculous combinations of letters and numbers. Is there a way to pinpoint a certain file?
You should take a look at the source code of the CacheViewer Add-on.
Download the file instead of installing it (right click and save as) and then extract it (it's just a Zip file, even though it has a .xpi extension), then extract the cacheviewer.jar file inside the resulting chrome folder. Finally go into content and then cacheviewer to find the javascript and XUL files.
From my brief investigation, the useful routines are in the cacheviewer.js file, though if you were hoping there would be a simple javascript one liner for accessing cached items you're probably going to be disappointed. The XUL files (which are just XML) are helpful in working out which JS functions are called to perform particular tasks. I'm not too sure how all this maps into Greasemonkey, rather than the extension environment, but hopefully there's enough code to get you started.
Ummm, that really is an internal implementation detail. But I suggest looking at how about:cache?device=disk and about:cache-entry?client=HTTP&sb=1&key=https://stackoverflow.com/Content/img/wmd/blockquote.png are implemented.
Also, http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1832 gives details, too. Note that Firefox doesn't use a separate file for everything...
And of course, Firefox may change the format at any time.
Just give your img src= attribute the full URL. If the image happens to be cacheable (the server sends an appropriate Expires: or Cache-control: header, for example) and it's already in the cache, Firefox will not hit the network.
HTTP caching is supposed to be invisible. When you're generating content, you generally shouldn't worry about it.
You can point REDbot at a URL to see all sorts of delicious information about its cacheability.
I have a .asp application where image files (.PDF) are stored in a directory (fed by a copier/scanner). The created file names are stored in a database table. When a query is launched from the web page a link to the file is created. When clicked the image should be displayed.
This functionality works 100% in Internet Explorer. No such luck in Firefox (and I have some Firefox users). The created hyperlink looks like this file://Server/Scanner/XYZ.pdf
The Firefox helps suggest the reason is this:
Links to local or network pages do not work. As a security precaution, Firefox forbids sites on the Internet to link to files that are stored in your local computing environment. These files may include files on your computer, mapped network drives, and UNC network paths
None of the suggestions for a workaround seem to work (or I am not understanding the steps to create the image display)
Any Suggestions?
This is the default Firefox behavior designed for security .The assumption is probably that most web sites don't know what and where are you local files (including UNC paths).
This could be turned off in firefox:
type "about:config" in the address bar and accept "i'll be careful"
find "security.checkloaduri" in older versions or "security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy" in newer versions of firefox and change the value to "false"
restart firefox
That should do it for you. You have more information here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Security.fileuri.origin_policy
Firefox >= 68.0.1
I'm able to preview in Firefox both images and PDF files with local file links using the settings mentioned here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303727
I have used links with local file: test
and added in user.js the mentioned settings (with adjusted sites list):
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://my.intranet");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
Also, when setting Firefox to "Always ask" for PDF files, I was able to "Open with" the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, which reported the expected local folder when accessing "File -> Properties".
Firefox >= 1.5.x < 20 (ish)
Search for the Firefox profile folder on your hard drive, e.g. (12345678 stands for eight random digits and letters):
Windows: "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles12345678.default\"
Linux: "/home/username/.mozilla/firefox/12345678.default/"
OS X: /Username/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/12345678.default/
In this folder create a text file with the name user.js. Write the following line into that text file:
user_pref("capability.policy.default.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
Works on my PC (Firefox 3.0.3 and 19.0 beta) with the following references:
<img src="file://///server/share/image.png" />
<img src="file://\\\server\share\image.png" />
<img src="file://d:\image.png" />
<img src="file:///d:\image.png" />
<img src="file://d:/image.png" />
<img src="file:///d:/image.png" />
<img src="file://localhost/d:/image.png" />
Also, if you are using the NoScript add-on, check the Advanced \ Trusted \ Allow local links option.
Reading at the solution given here, I followed the link Links to local pages do not work and for me, only this worked well (I am using wordpress for a personal FAQ on a local wamp installation):
Go to your "%Your Documents & Settings%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\%your profile%\"
edit the file "prefs.js"
add the following lines at the end of the document:
.
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://localhost");
user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.javascript.enabled", "allAccess");
You can leave the setting "security.checkloaduri" to its default value, and also the "security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy". Thanks to those 3 lines, you just make an exception for your local server.
Be careful, if you need to go back to that prefs.js file, note that Firefox will have ordered it alphabetically. So the 3 lines you will have added at the end will be somewhere at the beginning ;).
You can load the LocalLink FireFox Add-On, which allows you to right-click on a local link and select 'Open in Foreground Window'. The other 'Open...' menu items are supposed to work, but don't for me.
http://locallink.mozdev.org/
Also, you can use NoScript, like Alex suggests, which enables normal clicking of local links. Thanks Alex.
Marko's solution should work for links that are also on the local filesystem, but I don't think it should allow an http:// page to link to a file:// page.
The issue for people linking from http:// pages is discussed here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_do_not_work
along with an explanation of how to circumvent it and expose yourself to risk.
You can instead read the file off the disk and then send it in the Response from your page.
See this link for an example.
Tonnes of thanks I wAs searching this solution since months,
::THis thing worked::
This could be turned off in firefox:
* type "about:config" in the address bar and accept "i'll be careful"
* find "security.checkloaduri" in older versions or "security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy" in newer versions of firefox and change the value to "false"
* restart firefox
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shouldn't you really store the pages in your application directory and reference them this way. http://SITENAME/Server/scanner/XYZ.pdf.
We do something similar with files stored all in one directory and just store the file name. we then create the link using the known folder name and append the file name. this works quite well.
Finally firefox is a lot more anal about the directions of the slashes in file names as well. Make sure they are all '/' rather than '\'.
Hope this helps.
beware of incompatibility with gmarks (google toolbar replacer)
both local link and policy manager worked for me; local link is a little smoother, policy manager gives you more control
file://localhost///servername/share/file.txt works for me on FF11
(from a local html file: file:///C:/index.html)