Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite.
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Domains and tunneling connections with firefox
I want to know when i use SSH and firefox if someone else can see the domains or any sites i log into (i like using ftp://user:pass@site.com). I like to know the information so i can decide if going to a private (work) site from an untrusted site…
user274
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Problem with session variables using ColdFusion, Tomcat and Firefox
Any help is appreciated.
When using cfimage to generate a captcha, we keep his value in a session variable.
After the user submits the form, we compare the value of the captcha that the user entered with the session variable value.
Like this:
Step…

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How do I set up FSyncMS on NGinx?
I'm trying to set up FSyncMS (a minimal php weave/sync1.1 server in php) on a server. I've gotten as far as setting up the back-end but I'm running into the problem that I can't find a way to properly have nginx (my front-end web server) pass the…

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DNS Server Failure
I think I have an odd DNS situation on my hands. We have two Windows Server 2008R2 DNS servers that all of our campus machines use. We are unable to get to the site cdbaby.com in any web browser. We can get to other websites, and the cdbaby.com site…

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Prevent a manual install of firefox to autoupdate like in Linux distros
I have a manual install of Firefox, and I would like it to prevent to autoupdate (my need is to stick some Selenium version).
When Firefox is packaged in Linux distro, this feature is deactivated. This is obviously for letting the package manager…

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Firefox sends local traffic to proxy server
I found that the behavior of Firefox on proxy server side is quite different from what I expected.
I thought that you can bypass local traffic by putting local address range, such as 192.168. But I discovered that it is not enough, you have to put…
Sherwood Hu
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Running Firefox as a restricted user
For security reasons, I would like to run Firefox under a different (underprivileged) account. I thought it would be as easy as setting up a user and then run with gksudo, but it appears that there is more to it. What am I doing…

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FireFox detects Revoked Certificate, IE does not
Our exchange web access is secured by an SSL certificate. When I try to visit the web access in FireFox (v2 and v3.5), I get:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to www.example.net.au.
Peer's Certificate has been…

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Error Code 11004: Host not found from Firefox (but works on IE7 and Chrome)
I have a custom localhost, let´s say beta_localhost. The DNS is configured and I can access it without problem from Chrome and from IE7.
It get this error from Firefox:
Error Code 11004: Host not found
Background: This error indicates that the…

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User getting default Apache page instead of website - Safari/FF?
I have someone complaining that www.archstl.org (a site I manage) loads fine from his Windows PC, but not on his Mac; and apparently he can't get it anywhere he takes his Mac, either...
I've heard of this happening to one other person, but I can't…

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Hosts file doesn't work with .com host names
My /etc/hosts file is configured as following:
127.0.0.1 localhost mysitea.local mysiteb.com www.mysiteb.com www.mysitea.local
And I have my Apache virtual hosts setup accordingly:
ServerName www.mysitea.local
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Server-side print to PDF of HTML file in /tmp?
I'm working on a project where we need consistent printing of certain pages, and PDFs are made for that. The customers also like to have some local copies, so this would be a two-fold win. Things get really precarious in printing as far as where…

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Remote home, two desktops at the same time: firefox and thunderbird can't be run on both
We're using Ubuntu desktops with remote homes mounted via NFS. It's working ok overall, but we're facing a problem now with thunderbird and firefox.
Some users have two identical desktops running at the same time, they want to work locally on both,…

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How do I enable jconsole on an opensuse machine?
This may seem like a simple question, but I can't find a solid answer! How do I view jconsole in OpenSUSE 11.1? I have an applet that I'm hosting, and I'd like to be able to debug it on-the-server. However, I have no idea of how to pull up jconsole…

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FirePHP on Apache2 cause 502 error
I've got a problem with FirePHP.
FirePHP doesn't work anymore on my Server (Debian 6 Squeeze with Apache2).
When I am loading my site in my Firefox with FirePHP enabled, I receive an 502 error and an error message from my hoster Hetzner, which says…

Michi Qne
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