PDFs on Firefox for Mac: No matter what hacks I try, it seems that I cannot get the
PDF Plugin for Firefox on Mac OS X to work with either Firefox 9 or Firefox 10 beta. I feel like I must be doing something wrong because evidently other folks have gotten it to work. Would be grateful if anyone could walk me through the best way to get this extension working again.
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posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell
on Jan 16, 2012 -
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Mac OSX 10.5.8 form PDF printing: Can anyone tell me why it might be that sites which generate a unique PDF for download will malfunction with Firefox but not with Safari or Chrome? A typical example is
Purolator.ca: clicking on the javascript link to print a waybill returns a cgi file but no pdf.
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posted by HLD
on Apr 7, 2011 -
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Firefox has developed a couple very weird problems related to saving browsing history (despite options to save history being checked) and bookmarking.
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posted by Cucurbit
on Nov 14, 2010 -
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Why can't I haz cheezburger? (Why can't I access the Cheezburger sites from my computer anymore?)
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posted by DMan
on Oct 25, 2010 -
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Any idea how I can stop this weird behavior the first time I run Firefox?
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posted by DMan
on Feb 23, 2010 -
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Are there any programs/extensions out there to make the editing/organizing of my bookmarks in Firefox any easier? I'm using XMarks to sync these bookmarks between my XP and OSX machines.
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posted by decrescendo
on Feb 6, 2010 -
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The latest versions of Firefox
and Safari that can run on my Mac Intel G4 tower (OS X 10.4.11) keep crashing when I open more than one video in separate tabs or windows on YouTube or Hulu. The problem isn't consistent, but it does seem to happen when I have at least 7 or 8 tabs open at once. Can anyone help me solve this?
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posted by zarq
on Jan 22, 2010 -
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I need a way to keep a browser state with tabs, cookies, passwords, forms all saved but password-protected and inaccessible. I have Mac OS 10.5.7 and I usually use Firefox, kinda hate Safari.
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posted by kathrineg
on Dec 3, 2009 -
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I want to completely, entirely remove Firefox from my Macbook. Help me do that?
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posted by Dreama
on Sep 30, 2008 -
7 answers
How do I tell firefox3 to stop checking ssl certs. I access many sites using self signed ssl certificates and up until now that was fine but now I have encounter two self signed certs that have the same serial number and firefox wont even let me add an exception. I cant even access the second site. How do i just tell firefox I don't care if a site is using a bad ssl cert.
posted by DJWeezy
on Jul 17, 2008 -
10 answers
CSS, greasemonkey, sunglasses? Is there a way to stop white web pages hurting my eyes (firefox, osx).
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posted by pompomtom
on Jan 15, 2008 -
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Computer geniuses of all stripes: What the heck happened?? I hit the back button in Firefox, using OSX 10.4.11, and I got
this page!. I can't force quit Firefox, I can't shut down the computer (it times out), and I can't access the window that's behind the one shown in the picture!! Of course I could 'hard' reset the computer - but my questions are these....
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posted by crapples
on Dec 16, 2007 -
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I'm looking for Mac OSX software or a Firefox plug-in that will allow me to create local copies of web sites to be viewed later.
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posted by dripdripdrop
on Aug 23, 2007 -
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I absolutely love
Firefox Smart Keyword Searches. Beyond just the
default preinstalled ones, I also use custom ones for easynews, rottentomatoes, metafilter, etc. Here's my question: Is it possible to launch these from the command line in OS X? For example, ideally I would enter (into a bash prompt)
rt apple to open a new tab in firefox with a search result for "Apple" in rotten tomatoes, like
this.. Similarly, I would like to be able to enter
easy creative commons to have it launch the keyword bookmark "easy" which searches easynews global for
"creative commons". Is this possible to do, preferably without using Applescript or Automator?
posted by crazyray
on Feb 19, 2007 -
14 answers
How can I get certain non-Latin fonts to show up as display options in Firefox on a Mac?
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posted by skoosh
on Dec 18, 2006 -
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Trying to view a PDF in Firefox 2.0 on an Intel iMac is even more of a pain in the butt that it was in Fx 1.5.0.7. What am I doing wrong?
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posted by DakotaPaul
on Nov 1, 2006 -
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How can I make favicons appear on the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox 2 on OS X? The default theme hides them; is there a way to undo this? I've tried editing the userChrome.css and about:config to no avail. I'm willing to try another theme, if necessary. Are there any out for FF2 that show the favicons? I read
this thread, but it doesn't offer any real solution (not for FF2 anyway).
posted by GS1977
on Oct 30, 2006 -
10 answers
Strange behavior on Firefox / OSX. I think it might be a problem with cookies.
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posted by kdern
on Oct 3, 2006 -
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When I use Firefox to create and publish an entry on my Wordpress 2 blog I have to go back and re-publish the entry to get any HTTP links I have included in the post to actually work. Am I doing something wrong? A bit more detail inside.
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posted by persona non grata
on Jul 26, 2006 -
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I'm trying to find a (stable) OSX web browser that...
A) allows you to select text and right-click to search for that text in Google,
AND
B) displays bookmarks in the bookmarks toolbar as favicons (not just plain text buttons).
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posted by bruceyeah
on Apr 27, 2006 -
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Wah! MP3s no longer stream in my browser window in Firefox 1.5 for OSX 10.3.8. When I go to Prefs --> Download Actions, there is no MP3 extension. The upshot is that I have to completely download an MP3 file before I can hear it and even worse, it only opens in QuickTime. Can anyone help me return Firefox to its default stream MP3 setting?
posted by ubueditor
on Jan 5, 2006 -
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The keyboard shortcuts for moving between open tabs in Firefox 1.5 on OS 10.4.3 don't work - any ideas on how to fix this, possibly using the Keyconfig extension?
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posted by jack_mo
on Dec 14, 2005 -
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Firefox on OS X: How can I control which directory files downloaded to be opened by auxiliary applications are stored in?
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posted by mr_roboto
on Sep 26, 2005 -
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Firefox deal-breakers. 1. Instead of scrolling the page, panning use the trackpad on OS X goes back one page in the cache. 2. I want to change the keybinding to so that control-click on a link opens in a new background tab, instead of in a new foreground tab.
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posted by Mo Nickels
on Jul 28, 2005 -
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Windows Media Player will no longer load in Firefox or Safari. I have reinstalled twice, I remember seeing similar problems with WMP and OS X on AskMe or MeFi (I can no longer find where I saw it) without an answer, help!
posted by scazza
on Feb 16, 2005 -
0 answers
So I have this
home page. It looks pretty good (which is to say, it looks like I intended) in Safari, and passable in Internet Explorer. But in FireFox the CSS completely dissapears for some reason, so everything just comes up in a big unstyled pile. So in trying to find out why this is, which I have not done, I came to wonder: Is there a place on the web that has information about the differnces between browsers and how they render various bits of HTML, CSS and so on?
posted by donkeymon
on Oct 1, 2004 -
9 answers
Going Insane: How do I turn off mouse gestures in Firefox for OS X? I've installed a couple of extensions which control gestures, but so far, nothing works. I hate gestures. The keyboard is faster.
posted by Mo Nickels
on Sep 24, 2004 -
5 answers
MacBrowserHell: I just updgraded from a Lombard 333 Mhz Powerbook to a G4 667 TiBook with 1GB RAM. Camino now seems to run dog-slow. And the others have their troubles...
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posted by weston
on Aug 22, 2004 -
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Compare and contrast Camino and Firefox for OSX. What are the key differences? How are they similar? Which would do you prefer?
posted by mhaw
on Aug 11, 2004 -
10 answers
