Just trying to see if I can stop Watin / IE from loading images so the whole thing goes a lot faster?
You can stop images from being loaded via the Internet Explorer options.
To disable images in IE:
Select Tools -> Internet Options
Go to the Advanced tab
Scroll down to the settings section Multimedia
Uncheck the box 'Show pictures'
This could also be achieved programmatically by changing the appropriate registry setting. e.g.
RegistryKey ieKey = Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey(#"Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main");
ieKey.SetValue("Display Inline Images", "no");
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Why am I seeing these characters instead of text in Firefox ?
It's a public site https://www.ratemds.com/
The reason why there those icons are not displayed is related to the FontAwesome that is used in CSS.
Firefox don't allow use of cross domain fonts.
Solution: change the location (hosting) for those external fonts.
It's possible your firefox isn't set up to let sites use their own custom fonts.
This can become more and more prevalent these days with sites using many custom fonts for button icons. (See: "font awesome", or "bootstrap glyphicons")
You can try opening a blank firefox -> Settings -> Content -> "Fonts & Colors" -> Advanced -> Then look for the checkbox that reads "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above."
Once you've check that box, Firefox will allow the sites you visit to use their own custom fonts. This should fix your issue, if it does not I did some additional research and was able to find a configuration setting that also causes this which I'll demonstrate as "Advanded Solution" below.
ADVANCED SOLUTION:
In the firefox address bar type "about:config" without the quotes
Select the button promising to be careful (and truly please do)
In the search type in "gfx" without the quotes
Find the item "gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled" without the quotes
If the status is set to "user set" and the value is "false" then follow step 6
Right click the line item, and select "toggle" from the drop down options
If the first fix didn't work, the second fix should work. Hope it helps!
I am creating an IE browser extension using BHO,
I would like to create an option page like the on chrome or firefox.
I want this page to be accessible using manage add-ons page like it works in chrome and firefox. Is it possible? how do I do that?
I am using visual studio ATL and c++
Your Best Best is adding Context Menu or Tools Menu Item.
Basically There is no Standard IE Options Dialog that you can merge your stuff into.
you are gone have to have your own dialog.
as a warning starting with IE10 and IE11. your IE-Addons (BHO,Menu,Toolbar,DeskBank) will not have any access to registry or file system.
if you need to save some stuff. you are gone have to probably create a broker process.
for instance you need to create a windows service that listen on a socket (maybe some random port) and yo you can communicate with it from your options dialog on what to save and what to read.
Inserting context Menus into IE
Inserting Menu Options
I am learning chrome extension by example. Here is the example I currently learning: http://www.chrome-extensions.net/extensions/mappy/
There are three JavaScript files in this sample project: background.js mappy_content_script.js popup.js.
"mappy_content_script.js" is shown in the Combo box of Scripts tab of Developer Tools.
"popup.js" can be found if I right click the extension icon and choose "Inspect popup".
The problem is I can't debug "background.js" or find it in the Developer Tools. I tried insert "debugger;" in this JavaScript file. I also tried use profiling tool to record the script execution. However, when I click the link of "background.js", a blank page shows up.
Is this a bug of chrome or did I miss something? Thanks
background.js is loaded in the background. To inspect it visit chrome://extensions, find the loaded extension, and "inspect active views" for the background script.
Edit
Below is a screenshot of the chrome extensions page. A click on the link background page opens the background page for this extension.
Additional information
EDIT 2020
Here is how you can see the content scripts and debug,
Nowadays you have to install a Chrome extension to allow you to inspect the view of a page, specifically the Develop and Debug Chrome Apps & Extensions
There is an easy way to access your extension code in DevTool and debug it.
Open the DevTool (e.g. F12) , click on "Sources" tab
then look for "Content Scripts" menu next to Page , Filesystem, Overrides etc.
and click on it .
you should see all active extensions listed there and you can easily add break point to each js code and reload the page to debug through
I feel a little caught between a rock and a hard place here. I want to use Firefox's built in spell checking without disabling Ckeditor's context menu as this renders it impossible to work with tables. Is there a way of getting the best of both worlds here?
You could try setting the disableNativeSpellChecker property to false - it should then be possible to see the native spell checker markings within the editor - however for me I couldn't get this to work in Firefox, only Google chrome.
You can then hold the ctrl key down when you right click to show the browser context menu (provided browserContextMenuOnCtrl has not been set to false)
HTH.
Use the browser's default contextmenu for right click action, then you don't need to press Ctrl to shoe the browser's default context menu.
config.removePlugins = 'scayt,menubutton,contextmenu';
Enable the built-in spell checker if the browser provides one.
config.disableNativeSpellChecker = false;
hi there you can disable it by going to
Ckeditor>File Editor.then make sure you're editing the ckeditor.config.js file!
then add the two lines at the bottom (after the }; tag) add the two lines like below!...
**> CKEDITOR.config.disableNativeSpellChecker = false;
CKEDITOR.config.browserContextMenuOnCtrl = true;**
then save it..........
when writing in ckeditor a red dot underline will appear if your spell is incorrect!
when you right click the ckeditor's context menu appear.....but when you Ctrl+Right Click the browsers default menu appears....thanks..........
Use this plugin: http://martinezdelizarrondo.com/spellcheck/ and as it's stated, you have to install the WriteArea extension in Firefox.
Have you tried to enable SCAYT (SpellCheckAsYouType) in CKeditor? It is buit-in there and works as a plug-in.
I use Conkeror on a daily basis except at work where I need Firebug, since I'm a web developer. I really miss having the "follow link" ability in Conkeror but I don't want to resort to using Vimperator to get it.
Is there any Firefox extension which lets me follow links by hitting a key followed by the link text like in Conkeror?
There are many ways you can already use only the keyboard to browse with Firefox.
Searching pages
The find-as-you-type feature was an epiphany. While Google is great at getting you to the right web page, Firefox's find-as-you-type feature gets you the rest of the way.
Find as you type text: /
Find as you type link: '
Regular old find: Ctrl/Cmd+F
The link search is very useful, especially when used in conjunction with...
Opening pages
Unless you do all of your browsing in one page, these shortcuts are huge when you don't want to go running for your mouse.
Open link in new window: Shift+Enter
Open link in new tab: Ctrl/Cmd+Enter
Open address/search in new tab: Alt/Option+Enter
Used together with their respective shortcuts (address and search bar shortcuts and the find-as-you-type link shortcut), the page opening shortcuts go a long way toward mouse-less browsing.
Of course, you can also use the Mousless Browsing plugin.
Mouseless Browsing (MLB) enables you to browse the web entirely with the keyboard. The basic principle is to add small boxes with unique ids behind every link and/or form element. You just have to type in the id to trigger the corresponding action i.e. following a link, pressing a button or selecting a textfield...
There's Pentadactyl - and all firefox extensions work well with it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8781
Works even better with Linkification, I might add.