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I am trying to create a Firefox extension that uses a flex application. I have tried to wrap it in XUL types (<iframe> and <browser>) and I have no preference as to which one I use... whichever works. The problem is that whenever I use a relative path (access through chrome:// or mySWF.html) the flash fails to load. I have a method to search for the absolute path (it's posted below) but I cannot for the life of me figure out a way to dynamically change the src of either an iframe or browser. <script type="text/javascript"> function loadSWF() { alert("loadSWF!"); var fullPath = "file:///" +

I'm writing a Firefox extension. I'm trying to limit it to just XUL+Javascript (no XPCOM). When I get a mouseover event for an HTML element, I need to get its bounding box in the windows coordinate system (that is the built-in XUL document browser.xul). The obvious place to start is to put something like this in the mouseover event handler: var rect = e.target.getBoundingClientRect(); Which is great, but that gives me the rect in the HTML document's coordinate system, which is relative to the upper left corner of the HTML drawing area. I want to display a xul:panel element using panel

I am building a Firefox Extension . I am using XUL and Javascript to do this. I need to get the text from my Firefox browser's address bar. Please don't get confused with URL where the browser has navigated, its just the text that user enters before the page redirects. Suppose user is at http://www.myexample.com or whatever page. Now he types Cricket in the Address Bar and as soon as he hits enter, I want to capture the text ("Cricket") from the address bar . I need this data to do some processing further in my code. Marcel Korpel It doesn't seem to be possible in Google Chrome, as answers to

How can I know, in Xul, if the network is (dis)connected? --update Using: function observe(aSubject, aTopic, aState) { if (aTopic == "network:offline-status-changed") { write("STATUS CHANGED!"); } } var os = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/observer-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIObserverService); os.addObserver(observe, "network:offline-status-changed", false); and the preference: pref("network.manage-offline-status", true); it's not working.. There's a bug report here , but I don't think it has something to do with it. -- Actually I think it's not possible to be notified, as

I'm creating an extension for the Firefox browser. I would like to read a cookie which was set by an HTML page using JavaScript in the XUL file. Is it possible? I tried using document.cookie , but it doesn't work: function readCookie(name) { var ca = document.cookie.split(';'); var nameEQ = name + "="; for(var i=0; i < ca.length; i++) { var c = ca[i]; while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1, c.length); //delete spaces if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length, c.length); } return ""; } function createCookie(name, value, days) { if (days) { var date = new Date(); date

I have an ActiveX plugin that we need (if possible) to run in Firefox. Is there a plugin (or other way) for Firefox that will allow this? I seem to have found a solution: http://code.google.com/p/ff-activex-host/ "This Firefox plugin makes it possible to use ActiveX controls in Firefox. It is based on the Gecko NPAPI and provides full access to the hosted control (events, functions, properties)." You used to be able to in Firefox 1.5 but not any longer I believe, the plugin doesnt seem to be supported anymore. More info here Not sure if this is helpful or not, but writing an NPAPI plugin for