Tag Archives: Firefox

Minor Annoyances with Firefox Development

By Zach Leatherman | Published: March 23, 2008
When you’re developing web applications in Firefox, do you find yourself constantly clearing your cache? Cache is a useful facet of web browsing for everything but the continuous testing environment of web development. Here’s a nice alternative so that you don’t have to disable your cache entirely: Use the Firefox Plug-In called (humorously enough) JohnnyCache. [...]
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Problems with Looping through window.setInterval

By Zach Leatherman | Published: December 23, 2007
Look at this code. What do you expect to be the outcome?
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Cross Domain XHR with Firefox 2

By Zach Leatherman | Published: August 30, 2007
By now know you know that trying to do an XMLHttpRequest (XHR or AJAX) call to a domain that is different from the domain of the hosted JavaScript in Firefox will throw an exception. Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open If you don’t want a history of the past solutions, page down [...]
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JavaScript Code Coverage Tool for Firebug

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 18, 2007
Download FirebugCodeCoverage-0.1.xpi Recently, I’ve become interested in client side automated testing tools. When I found the Selenium plug-in for Firefox, I was blown away. I can record actions in my browser and play them back! No more manual testing of JavaScript code! Researching a little bit more about automated testing tools led to the discovery [...]
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