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EDIT: I have solved this problem on my end. It turns out that my mouse manufacturer had a 'helper' program that was screwing up the horizontal-tilt support. Quitting it solved the problem. To others having the same problem, I suggest checking your own mouse's helper utilities.

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I am given to understand that previous versions of Firefox supported horizontal scrolling when used with a scrollwheel mouse that supported tilt messages. However, I've been unable to get it to work on Firefox 20.0.1. I've tried disabling smooth scrolling, hardware acceleration, restarting in safe mode, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

(The troubleshooting information below represents the usual configuration of my browser, without disabling any extensions.)

On the other hand, other applications seem to handle mousewheel tilts just fine; I've tried it with applications as simple as Notepad on Windows and they scroll horizontally in response to mousewheel tilts. I'm stumped; did Mozilla remove tilt support in later versions of Firefox?

I am having a problem with a xul drag and drop function designed for selenium rc and selenium IDE. It works in Firefox 10 ESR but does not work in Firefox 17 ESR.

the code used for the draganddrop function is added below:

Selenium.prototype.doXulDragAndDropToObject = function(locatorStartElement, locatorEndElement) { var startElement = this.page().findElement(locatorStartElement); if (startElement.wrappedJSObject) {

   startElement = startElement.wrappedJSObject;

}

var endElement = this.page().findElement(locatorEndElement); if (endElement.wrappedJSObject) {

   endElement = endElement.wrappedJSObject;

}

var dropValue;

var startTreerow = getAncestorsByTagName(startElement, 'treerow')[0]; var treeCells = startTreerow.children; for(var i=0; i<treeCells.length; i++) {

   var val = treeCells[i].getAttribute('value');
   if(val) {
       dropValue = JSON.parse(val);
   }

}

if(dropValue) {

   endElement.drop(dropValue);

} }

The is the error message I received when the draganddrop fails in FireFox 17 ESR:

[error] Unexpected Exception: message -> An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable, code -> 11, INDEX_SIZE_ERR -> 1, DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR -> 2, HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR -> 3, WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR -> 4, INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR -> 5, NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR -> 6, NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR -> 7, NOT_FOUND_ERR -> 8, NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR -> 9, INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR -> 10, INVALID_STATE_ERR -> 11, SYNTAX_ERR -> 12, INVALID_MODIFICATION_ERR -> 13, NAMESPACE_ERR -> 14, INVALID_ACCESS_ERR -> 15, VALIDATION_ERR -> 16, TYPE_MISMATCH_ERR -> 17, SECURITY_ERR -> 18, NETWORK_ERR -> 19, ABORT_ERR -> 20, URL_MISMATCH_ERR -> 21, QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR -> 22, TIMEOUT_ERR -> 23, INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR -> 24, DATA_CLONE_ERR -> 25, result -> 2152923147, name -> InvalidStateError, filename -> chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/htmlutils.js, lineNumber -> 1183, columnNumber -> 0, location -> JS frame :: chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/htmlutils.js :: :: line 1183, inner -> null, data -> null

firefox selenium-rc selenium-ide

when the android phone is turned off, and then back on again, any desk top icon or bookmark of an web page with a manifest will not work when in airplane mode. You must at least make an attempt to turn on wifi, even an unsuccessful attempt to find a wifi connection will do. Then when you use the book mark or the desktop icon, it will work. I have a series of phones which only have internect connection - no phone company tower connection SAMSUNG-SGH-1997 firmware version 2.2.1 kernel verions 2.6.32.9 FROYO.UCKH1. Contact wih android support only got suggestion to use the google chrome browser, which incidentally does not work on 2.2.1

I am doing coursework in Udacity. The site uses youtube for it's video playback. The videos are in the html5 format. I know this because I right click on them and get a message about html5 and not flash. Sometimes when I try to watch a video in firefox, I see the video loading on the progress bar, but it will not play. If I then open chromium, and visit the you tube site and start playing a random video, all of a sudden the video will play in firefox. I'm not sure what's going on here or who is responsible, but in my opinion this is a fairly serious issue. It is the sort of thing that ppl will switch browsers for....

have tried to download Java, but it keeps telling me to download it after i have restarted my computer. it does't give the link to unblock as told in your help section. what can i do? it has to be used to play games on a fee based program use and i am getting b=very frustrated with this whole thing, please advise.

Touchpad scroll does not work in drop down menus. When I try, the menu just closes. This feature works perfectly fine in Internet Explorer 9. I have tried several different drivers from Synaptics with no difference.

On some pages in my application I put up a mask and a loading dialog when changing page. This dialog has a GIF as a background image as a loading/waiting indicator. This GIF plays one or two frames and stops when the pages begins its redirection to the target page.

Page change initiated using javascript: location.href ...

FF 19 MAC OSX

Booted up computer this morning. Auto update of Firefox to 19. No previous tabs available. Eventually restored previous tabs but some of Add-ons didn't work even tho no message to say so. SEO-Book toolbar was there after update but later disappeared. Tried downloading SE-Book toolbar again still did not appear in View / Toolbars tab. Did not appear on screen. The video download prog I had in the Tools tab no longer there. Got rid of download helper as it didn't work anyway.

When trying to setup sync for Firefox Nightly start menu, metro UI, app the spinner goes indefinitely with the message "Waiting on other device." My other PC simply adds the new PC trying to sync without any problems. It's also not taking my information using the recovery key, the fields just reset after entering everything. (Also, should I even have to setup sync twice for the same installation, once for desktop and once for start menu?)

Is this a know issue? Are there any known fixes?

This problem occurs on two different (one 32 bit, one 64 bit) machines running Firefox 19.0.2 under Windows 8 Pro. Firefox is the default browser on both machines. Firefox is set to open URL's in a new tab. I have disabled all extensions and add-ins and the problem persists.

[EDIT: Have now upgraded 64bit machine to Firefox 20.0.1 with no change in symptoms.]

ONLY IF Firefox IS CURRENTLY RUNNING, clicking on a URL shortcut will sometimes fail to open the URL in Firefox (or any other browser, for that matter). If Firefox is exited, then clicking on the same shortcut will always launch a new instance of Firefox and open the URL. This problem is intermittent -- about 10% to 20% of the time -- at other times clicking on the same shortcut will cause Firefox to open the URL as expected. However, once a running Firefox instance has ignored a click on the shortcut, no matter how many times the shortcut is clicked, Firefox will not respond until that instance of Firefox is exited.

I'm using Firefox 19 Beta (fully updated) on Mac OS 10.8.2 (also fully updated). I recently reinstalled the OS, and before I had, I was using the same version of Firefox. Before the reinstall, Firefox was using notification center for all notifications. I used to have Growl installed, but uninstalled it after Firefox added Notification Center support. Now, after the reinstall, Firefox is not showing up under my list of Notification Center applications. Does anyone have any idea how to get Firefox to show up in Notification Center? I have googled around with no success.

Thanks for your help!

Hi, I am experiencing an issue with Firefox when in edit mode using the open source VLE moodle. When I try to move items on the page it no longer works. To cut a long sorry story short I finally traced this to a firefox upgrade in mid January. The issue first appeared in firefox around mid January, then Palemoon which I also have installed presumably when the same upgrade worked reached Palemoon. If I try this on another browser such as IE or Chrome there is no problem. Through a bit of investigation and a post on the moodle forum I found that the issue could be fixed by turning off the touchscreen service 'tablet pc input service' in services.

I like Firefox, and the ethos behind and would like to keep using it, but at the same time don’t want to have to go into services and disable my touchscreen every time I want to edit in moodle. Is there anything that I can change in firefox settings to fix this or is it a bug that needs to be fixed?

Thanks in advance.

When Access Protection is enabled under the category "Common Standard Protection", Rule: Prevent common programs from running files from the Temp Directory is enabled. the updates fail.

This rule provides some protection against possible malware execution. However when this rule is enabled FireFox updates fail. We have set exclusions for "updater.exe" but the problem seems to be when FF restarts and the update fails. Is there anyway of finding out what is happening at that point?? as in what FF is doing? The old FF closes and it seems to spawn a fresh "firefox.exe". But the OLD version is still current.

I would like to know if this update process can be identified and with the possibility of excluding what is being blocked so keep the extra security that this rule gives.

When the rule is disabled, FF updates without issue.

I'm running Firefox 18.0.1 in Mac 10.8.2, but I've had this problem in other versions too. I need FF to run in 32-bit mode, because I often use Google Voice, which requires that. I've already gone to the information window for the application and checked the box that says "Open in 32-bit mode." Seems like that should solve the problem. But it doesn't. Every time I open FF and log in to Gmail, I get a message saying it uses plug-ins that can only run in 32-bit mode, and asking if I want to restart in 32-bit mode. If I just want to check my email it's fine, but if I want to use Google Voice I have to restart the browser. That's annoying, given that there already is a setting for starting in 32-bit mode, and that I've already selected it. Is that setting non-functional, or is there some way to make it actually work?

I have FF 19.0.2 (FF 18.x had problems too), I log into Gmail, try to Compose an email, and the attachment (regardless of type or size) won't attach. Gmail gives me an error of "Retry, Remove, Help"

I have the most version of Flash, a few weeks ago with FF18.x everything was working fine, with FF18.x the above problem started. Safe Mode with FF doesn't fix it, in creating a new profile FF was updated to 19.x, that didn't fix it. When Win7 Pro loads normally, I turned off my antivirus software (Kaspersky), and my antimaleware software, cleared all my cache in FF, nothing worked.

Attachments work with IE v8.0 without a problem. Attachments also work on my WinXP Pro (old computer) with older version FF. On my netbook, which has an OEM version of Win7 and FF 10.0, attachments do work.

IF I start Win7 in Safe Mode, then the attachment works. So something in windows is causing the problem. I have not updated Win7 Pro in months, so it's nothing I recently changed, because nothing has changed w/the OS.

I'm at a loss as to what to trouble shoot at this point.