Questions tagged [firefox]

Mozilla Firefox is a free, open-source cross-platform web browser. Use this tag if your question is related to the inner workings of Firefox or if it relates to code that is not working on Firefox which does work in other browsers. Questions about Firefox add-on development should be tagged [firefox-addon]. If your question is about using Firefox for browsing (i.e. as an end user) you should ask your question on Super User instead.

Firefox is an open source, cross-platform web-browser created by Mozilla. It uses the open source rendering engine and the JavaScript engine.

Standards

Firefox implements many web standards, including (almost full ), , , , , (with extensions), (), , , , and (Animated PNG) images with transparency.

Platform availability

Firefox runs on various operating systems including , , , and , as well as on , and devices. Its source code is licensed under the Mozilla Public License.

There are various add-ons available for Firefox under various categories, such as web development, changing the appearance of Firefox and utilities such as download managers.


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What questions should have this tag?

Use this tag if your question is related to:

  • Code that is not working on Firefox which does work in other browsers
  • The inner workings of Firefox

Questions concerning Firefox add-on development should be tagged .

If your question is about using Firefox for browsing (i.e. as an end user) rather than the development of code for Firefox, you should ask your question on Super User instead.


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How do I write a Firefox Addon?

What are some resources for getting started writing a Firefox Addon? Is there an API guide somewhere? Is there a getting started tutorial somewhere? Is there a developer discussion board somewhere?
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Amazon S3 CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) and Firefox cross-domain font loading

There has been a long standing issue with Firefox not loading font from different origin than the current webpage. Usually, the issue arise when the fonts are served on CDNs. Various solutions has been raised in other questions: CSS @font-face not…
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Webdriver Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms

I have box where I run tests. It seems like Jenkins would ssh in and execute commands described in the specific job that's running. Here I am trying to run my Selenium Webdriver tests, but it tells me that I have errors in launching firefox. The…
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How to open a new tab using Selenium WebDriver in Java?

How can I open a new tab in the existing Firefox browser using Selenium WebDriver (a.k.a. Selenium 2) in Java?
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How to get result of console.trace() as string in javascript with chrome or firefox?

console.trace() outputs its result on console. I want to get the results as string and save them to a file. I don't define names for functions and I also can not get their names with callee.caller.name.
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Firefox ignores option selected="selected"

If you change a dropdown and refresh the page, Firefox seems to ignore the selected attribute. It will in fact select the option you had previously selected (before the refresh). This ends up…
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Firefox Web Console Disabled?

How come I get this message from Firefox Web Console The Web Console logging API (console.log, console.info, console.warn, console.error) has been disabled by a script on this page The same webpage can print messages in Chrome Console but not…
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ES2015 import doesn't work (even at top-level) in Firefox

These are my sample files: Test t1.js: import Test from 't2.js'; t2.js: export const Test = console.log("Hello world"); When I load the…
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Disable firefox same origin policy

I'm developing a local research tool that requires me to turn off Firefox's same origin policy (in terms of script access, I don't really care about cross domain requests). More specifically, I want scripts in the host domain to be able to access…
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How to hide scrollbar in Firefox?

I just found out how to hide the scrollbar in Google Chrome, I did it with this code: ::-webkit-scrollbar { display: none; } The only problem is that this doesn't work on Firefox. I tried many ways to do it but it still doesn't work.
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Is there a way to make Firefox ignore invalid ssl-certificates?

I am maintaining a few web applications. The development and qa environments use invalid/outdated ssl-certificates. Although it is generally a good thing, that Firefox makes me click like a dozen times to accept the certificate, this is pretty…
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Increase code font size in firefox developer tool

How to increase code fonts in Firefox developer tools? I know that there is a zoom function but I want to set the font size only for the code.
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Ajax, back button and DOM updates

If javascript modifies DOM in page A, user navigates to page B and then hits back button to get back to the page A. All modifications to DOM of page A are lost and user is presented with version that was originally retrieved from the server. It…
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What features do Progressive Web Apps have vs. native apps and vice-versa, on Android

In 2015 Google introduced a new approach for developing web apps for Android: progressive web apps. One can create an application that will look like a native application, will be able to use device's hardware like camera and accelerometers, receive…
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Firefox session cookies

Generally speaking, when given a cookie that has no expiration period, modern browsers will consider this cookie to be a 'session cookie', they will remove the cookie at the end of the browsing session (generally when the browser instance…
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