Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite.
Questions tagged [firefox]
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How to restrict access to firefox in Ubuntu 10.[04|10]
I have an Ubuntu desktop set up in a retail environment. I would like to restrict access to firefox. So that users must type in a password to run it. I tried changing permissions on the binary so that it did not have world access, but each time the…

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Why firefox handle urlencode differently with apache mod-rewrite B flag?
Recently I have encontered a strange problem about urlencode, I happened to have a "+" in my both pathinfo and querystring parts of the url.
For exampele:
http://example.com/A + B?s=C + D
I use tamperdata in firefox and can make sure thant firefox…

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How to associate a softphone with a phone url
I'm trying to get click to call to work using Qutecom for a softphone and a Greesemonkey script to turn phone numbers into clickable urls. Whenever I click on the phone number link I get an error message saying the following:
Firefox doesn't know…

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Can Firefox support Remote Scripting?
We have a legacy Classic ASP application which makes use of Remote Scripting in a critical module to mimic AJAX (it was written before AJAX became a buzzword). I would like to make Firefox the default browser for our company (most people here use…

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Altering Firefox "Address not found" page behavior
I have a (mostly) unmanaged computer stuck someplace not easily reachable that has only one purpose: to display a specific web page on a large screen connected to the said computer's video card. This is achieved by running Firefox on bare X11 in…

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Custom Firefox Updates on a Private Network
We have a network where, due to a SaaS piece that is used to manage the school, we cannot allow Firefox to update until the SaaS piece notifies us that they support the newest version.
This mean that, unfortunately, we have had to block Firefox…

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.pac file and Firefox's network.proxy.socks_remote_dns setting
Does anyone know if Firefox's setting network.proxy.socks_remote_dns would apply to a SOCKS proxy set by a .pac file or only when manually entered in network options? I ask because I use a dynamic ssh tunnel at work and was trying to automate…

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Outlook Web Access - 3 Pane view using browsers other than Internet Explorer
Why doesn't Outlook Web Access display the 3 pane view when using browsers like Firefox, Chrome or Safari?
Specifics: When you access Outlook for the web(specifically Outlook 2003) using Internet Explorer you get the 3 pane view that looks pretty…

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Blank page using Chrome but working on Safari or FF
We have a webpage (vimity.com) in php served by Apache on top of Ubuntu 9.04.
The homepage looks great on FF and Safari but not on Chrome. The problem with Chrome is only on the Homepage, the rest of the page is looking good on all browsers. When we…

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Flash Plugin for Firefox on Terminal Server
I have 3 TS on Windows Server 2008. One of the user need to have Flash plug in on her Firefox. She could not install the plugin as she does not have administration access to do that on the TS.
My understanding is the plugin can only be installed as…

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Outlook Web Access, reverse proxy and browser
We recently moved an exchange server behind a reverse proxy due to the loss of a public IP.
I've managed to configure the reverse proxy (httpd proxy_http).
But there is a problem for the SSL configuration.
When accessing the OWA interface with…

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Options for a site-specific-browser app
I would like to have our intranet site accessed through Firefox or Chrome, rather than IE. However we don't want users having access to any other internet sites apart from our intranet, unless they are using IE.
I notice that Chrome has what they…

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My SSL setup fails in firefox
I have just started using firefox (from google chrome) and when I viewed my website, the ssl certificate appears to be invalid. Could anyone double check this https://www.centredegenetique.ca/secure.php. If it is invalid, how would I fix it. I am…

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Why is Firefox on XP reporting "Connection is Untrusted"
To those of you familiar with the RFC 4366 TLS "Server Name Indication" (SNI) extension, which allows multiple SSL certificates on the same IP address, here’s the scenario:
URL: http://puny.it/serverfault02 (Redirects to the actual HTTPS URL.)
As…

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Browser user agent string with all 0s
I've had 2 mac users hit my site today, and both their browser user agents were:
Mozilla/5.0 (000000000; 0; 00000 000 00 0 000000; 00000) DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDD DDDD DDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
instead of what I would generally…

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