Date: 01/10/06 (HTML Help)    Keywords: browser, web

Not sure how many people use Firefox or the Web Developer Extension, but it seems there is a conflict with it somewhere. I noticed that Firefox was not loading when I tried to launch a new instance, however the process was listed in the Task Manager [and using about 53,000 K of memory]. Clicking links in pages resulted in no response from Firefox as well. I asked a friend who also uses FF and we compared our extensions, the two that we both have in common are:

-Tabbrowser Prefrences 1.2.8.8
-Forecastfox 0.8.2.5

Not sure if it is a conflict with one of these extensions, or just a bug with the Web Developer extension. I disabled the Web Developer extension, and everything is back to normal. but I thought I'd let people know incase they are having similar issues :D

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/htmlhelp/2233650.html

Date: 01/11/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser

If I create a single celled table on a page and tell it to be 100% height and 100% width and then center the graphic inside it should (in theory) stay exactly centered no matter what size the browser window, right? But the height attribute "100%" doesn't seem to be recognised by a whole bunch of browsers (it just defaults to the height of the graphic, pushing it to the top of the page), so how do I get the graphic to automatically center on the page? Is there a simple tag that will align a graphic on a page vertically without it being within a table cell?

Sorry if this is a really dumb question...but I can't seem to find a simple solution ;)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1040725.html

Date: 01/10/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser

So text only browsers (Lynx/MacLynx/etc) don't seem to process
. is there a tag i should be using instead of that?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1039654.html

Date: 11/30/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: browser

Please advise, is there an option to refresh pages of a session that is opened on browser start-up? I want to see my LJ Friends page refreshed, not the way I left it yesterday! Please don’t tell me to refresh the page: should I also refresh other 9 pages? Some monkey business… Changing Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> History -> Cache option to Always or Every 5 min hasn’t help.

In an ideal situation I’d like to control page by page for each saved session, whether I want it refreshed every time session is loaded or displayed from cache.

Opera version 8.50 Russian. I have browsed through the FAQ, KB but with no success.

Thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/opera_browser/48235.html

Date: 10/31/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: browser, css

I've been experimenting with the positioning of various sections of a layout, prior to adding actual content and my own styling to it, and have come across something that's baffling me.

This is the testpage in question. The pages does what it's supposed to at this point in time in Opera at 800x600 and 1280x1024, but in 1024x768, a narrow gap emerges between the left section (coloured in red) and the header, content and footer sections on the right of the page. This gap doesn't appear in either IE or Firefox at any of those three resolutions.

Using the zoom control in my default screen resolution, I discovered once again that only enlarging the page to certain sizes caused the problem. Here's a zoomed-in screenshot to illustrate the problem.

Now, sure, I'm still learning how to use CSS effectively, but this gap (which shows up in both Opera 7.54 and Opera 8.5) confuses me. So, is it my coding that's at fault or is it an interesting glitch in Opera? (If others can't replicate the gap on their browsers, I'll assume it's a peculiarity of my monitor's default settings, and apologize profusely for wasting people's time!)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/opera_browser/47530.html

Date: 10/28/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: browser

From Opera Watch:

Are you an Opera browser user? Add yourself to the map of Opera users.

To add yourself to the map, you need a name, city or zip, and a shoutout (a comment).

You could also upload a photo; I was thinking that this would be a great way to see the Opera browser layouts and skins of other users, so upload a screenshot of your browser to the map.

Map yourself, what are you waiting for?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/opera_browser/47117.html

Date: 10/01/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: browser, web, google

Hey all. I've got a few people in the office using Opera 8 now that it is ad-free, and to further sell the browser (though everyone is understandably impressed) I've made sure to have some cool search.ini tweaks available for them.

Latest one I came up with is for Google Maps. "map" is the key, so to get directions you'd enter (if you knew the addresses, of course):
map 151 Andover Street 01960 to 90 Pleasant Valley St 01844
(From one Borders bookstore to another, heh.)

[Search Engine ??]
Name=GoogleMaps
URL=http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s
Query=
Key=map
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=8
Verbtext=17063
Position=-1
Nameid=0

I also made sure dictionary.com, merriam-webster.com, and wikipedia were available as those are popular places for myself and I think others would find them useful.

I also have some LJ-specific searches. Use LJ * for a livejournal page (such as: lj login.bml or lj poll/create.bml), lju for a user's page (such as: lju erislover), and ljf for a friends page (such as: ljf erislover).

[Search Engine ??]
Name=LiveJournal
URL=http://www.livejournal.com/%s
Query=
Key=lj
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=0
Verbtext=17063
Position=-1
Nameid=0

[Search Engine ??]
Name=LiveJournalUsers
URL=http://www.livejournal.com/users/%s
Query=
Key=lju
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=0
Verbtext=17063
Position=-1
Nameid=0

[Search Engine ??]
Name=LiveJournalFriends
URL=http://www.livejournal.com/users/%s/friends/
Query=
Key=ljf
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=0
Verbtext=17063
Position=-1
Nameid=0

Anyone have any others to share?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/opera_browser/45588.html

Date: 09/27/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: browser

When you can't access the necessary pull down menu to go back to the normal view. And there's no keystroke shortcut. I did find how to get the scroll bars back (va the only function key that worked), but I couldn't get tabs, instead just hop between the tabs I had open. Eventually I just closed all tabs/windows (by mistake) and the new one opened up ok. I would have quit but I was downloading something and fortunately that kept downloading, even with all windows closed.

All that aside, with no keystroke and no pull down menu, how did you get out of full screen view?

Oh and I have a mac. Which might just mean the mac version is beta as it is with other browsers that shall not be named, and this is the burden I have to bare.

*dusts self off, checks bruises and decides that despite misadventures, opera is worth it*

Thanks for reading and any replies.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/opera_browser/44950.html

Date: 11/01/05 (Code WTF)    Keywords: browser, microsoft

<script language="JavaScript">
var globalTable,oRow,oCell,aRows,aCells,oCell1_1;
if ('Netscape' == "Microsoft")
{
globalTable=document.all.globalTable;
}
else // it can be Netscape or any other browser
{
globalTable=document.getElementById("globalTable");
}
...
</script>

Working project!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/code_wtf/18372.html

Date: 01/03/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: browser, web

Why do people do this.

Some Link

I was just on a website, that had a lmage as a link. When you clicked on it, it popped the a new window, and the because the href was # it brought me to the top of the page. Totally annoying......


I am a big fan of. gets what you want, and in all browsers with no unexpected surprises.
Some Link

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/89414.html

Date: 11/28/05 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: browser, html

Spent some time looking for this last night, but right now I have to get another function working.

When hiding elements with "inline" and "none", the script I normally use requires
style="display:inline;" in the element.


However, the elements I am hiding this time are HTML table cells. Having the style tag seems to mess up the way it draws on FIreFox.

Is there a way to switch classes and hide elements? Seems that if I use a class instead of style it draws nicely.

This is the code I have now, but it doesnt seem to work - but there are no JS errors.
document.getElementById(LayerName).className = "layershow";

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/84716.html

Date: 01/15/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser

Can anyone tell me where in the registry the setting for default browser is saved?

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/566799.html

Date: 01/15/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, seo

I'm having a really annoying problem with macromedia flash 8. (Running win98 & IE 6.0):

I installed the flash 8 plugin, and my browser keeps flickering. I uninstall it, the flickering goes away, but now i'm prompted 800 times a day to re-install it whenever I go to a page that has any kind of flash.

I want to install it, but the "flickering" is really annoying .. it happens everytime I pass my mouseover a link or just when there is a flash on a page.

Any help will be appreciated!

thanks =)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/566735.html

Date: 01/14/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, web

Novice Question here. All of the web pages I look at in my computers browsers (Internet Explorer and Mozzila Firefox) have always seemed too big when compared to other computers I’ve used. How does one shrink down all the pictures and graphics one is looking at, thus making the webpage look smaller. I can only change the size of the text at this point.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/566524.html

Date: 01/11/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser

I made firefox my default internet browser, but when I click "open my inbox" on msn messenger, it still opens Enternet Explorer... Any way to fix this?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/565165.html

Date: 01/17/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, browser, database, sql

Ok, so I have the following code, meant to delete a category in a script I'm working on. It takes the category ID from the $_GET array, checks the database to make sure such a category ID exists, then deletes it if true or shows an error if false.

if ($_GET['categories'] == "deletecat") {
if (isset($_GET['delid'])) {
$idofd = cleaninput($_GET['delid'], 1);
$idofd = (int)$idofd;
$check_delete = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table_cats WHERE cat_id = '" . $idofd . "' LIMIT 1", $connect));
if (empty($check_delete)) {
echo "

Error: There is no category with the ID number " . $idofd . ".

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/396330.html

Date: 12/30/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, web

As of three days ago, my firefox browser froze and crashed on me during some downloading of images from the web. Now whenever I try to save anything (of any file type) or select any of the options from the tools menu, etc, firefox crashes on me. I have tried uninstalling, restarted, reinstalling, checking for updates, etc. Nothing is fixing this issue and it is extremely frustrating.

Has anyone experienced such issues before or has heard of such problems and has any suggestions on how to rectify this problem?

Thanks,
A very frustratingly dependent firefox user.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/344867.html

Date: 12/08/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, asp, java, security, virus, linux

News of a new security vulnerability has been posted for Firefox 1.5 (my own testing confirms it also affects Firefox 1.0.7, Mozilla 1.7.12, and Camino 1.0b1) that allows for Denial of Service or potentially arbitrary code execution. It has to do with a buffer overflow in the parsing of history.dat, which stores browser history.

Basically, if you visit a malcious site using this vulnerability, the next time you try to start Firefox it will run the malicious code, which could be as minor as causing Firefox not to work (such as the Proof of Concept) or as serious as executing arbitrary code (i.e. it could install a virus or other malware). Fortunately, there is a simple workaround: just set Firefox to keep browser history for 0 (zero) days, essentially setting it not to keep history, and then restart Firefox to make the change take effect. Note that disabling JavaScript DOES NOT mitigate this vulnerability; only disabling browser history does, since that prevents the creation of history.dat. Also note that the malcious code would run each time you attempt to start Firefox, until you delete history.dat from your profile folder.

I don't believe Mozilla has announced anything about this yet, but proof of concept code is available, and I confirmed with my own testing that it works as I described on both Mac OS X and Windows, using both Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 1.0.7, meaning that all versions are probably affected (or at least all recent versions).

Here are the steps to mitigate this vulnerability until a patch is released (for Firefox 1.5):

1. Open Firefox Options (Tools->Options on Windows) or Preferences (Edit->Preferences on Linux, Firefox->Preferences on Mac OS X).
2. Choose "Privacy" from the top button bar, and choose the "History" tab.
3. Set "Remember visited pages for the last ____ days." to 0 (zero).
4. On Windows, click OK to close the Options window. On Linux or Mac, simply close the Preferences window.
5. Restart Firefox to make sure the setting takes effect.

The same steps apply to Firefox 1.0.x, it's just that the options/preferences window is different. Basically, for step 2 the "Privacy" button is on the left side button bar, and history is the top section on that pane.

More details for the technically minded...

X-posted to mozilla

Update 1: My own testing confirms that other Mozilla-based browsers are affected by this vulnerability as well, including Mozilla Suite and Camino. I've also confirmed that this can be exploited without JavaScript (which I already suspected), and it has the same effect as the original PoC. All users of Gecko-based browsers should disable browser history.

Also, Secunia has released an advisory on the issue, but they only mention the DoS aspect, not the possibility of code execution that the original researchers claim is possible. While I can't confirm myself whether or not that is true, it is still certainly a nuisance to have Firefox become unusable, so you should all still protect yourselves.

Update 2: Mozilla has released a statement, claiming that the flaw only causes Firefox and Mozilla to hang for a long time when starting, but that they eventually do start. They also say that they don't think code execution is possible, since the original researchers present no proof of it other than claiming its possible. Though they don't state it, it doesn't sound like they're planning to release a patch anytime soon...

Also, testing confirms that this affects Linux, though depending on the distribution it seems to affect it differently. For example, on Gentoo using the twm window manager, accessing the test case caused the window manager to completely lock up, and then after restarting Firefox wouldn't work. On Fedora Core 4, however, after restarting Gnome (which locked up for me similarly to twm) Firefox did seem to keep working normally. Perhaps the fact that the window managers are locking up is a sign that they can't handle extremely long window titles...

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/341566.html

Date: 01/10/06 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: browser, web

Not sure how many people use Firefox or the Web Developer Extension, but it seems there is a conflict with it somewhere. I noticed that Firefox was not loading when I tried to launch a new instance, however the process was listed in the Task Manager [and using about 53,000 K of memory]. Clicking links in pages resulted in no response from Firefox as well. I asked a friend who also uses FF and we compared our extensions, the two that we both have in common are:

-Tabbrowser Prefrences 1.2.8.8
-Forecastfox 0.8.2.5

Not sure if it is a conflict with one of these extensions, or just a bug with the Web Developer extension. I disabled the Web Developer extension, and everything is back to normal. but I thought I'd let people know incase they are having similar issues :D

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webhosts/32921.html

Date: 01/10/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: browser

is it possible that some favicons show up on some browsers and not others? for example, for my company, it shows up in the URL window in firefox but not safari. http://www.comefullcircle.com

EDIT:::
apparently safari likes .gif and not .ico favicons. is this pc friendly? i don't have a pc to test on.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/284667.html