nsIWebNavigationInfo
docshell/base/nsiwebnavigationinfo.idlscriptable exposes a way to get information on the capabilities of gecko web navigation objects.
... 1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/webnavigation-info;1 as a service: var webnavigationinfo = components.classes["@mozilla.org/webnavigation-info;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiwebnavigationinfo); method overview unsigned long istypesupported(in acstring atype, in nsiwebnavigation awebnav); constants support type constants constant value description unsupported 0 returned by istypesupported() to indicate lack of support for a type.
... methods istypesupported() determines whether or not the specified mime type is supported by the given nsiwebnavigation object.
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webNavigation - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference webnavigation type: nsiwebnavigation this read-only property contains the nsiwebnavigation object for the document.

nsIWebNavigation
docshell/base/nsiwebnavigation.idlscriptable defines an interface for navigating the web.

Finding window handles - Archive of obsolete content
var basewindow = window.queryinterface(components.interfaces.nsiinterfacerequestor) .getinterface(components.interfaces.nsiwebnavigation) .queryinterface(components.interfaces.nsidocshelltreeitem) .treeowner .queryinterface(components.interfaces.nsiinterfacerequestor) .getinterface(components.interfaces.nsibasewindow); then in c++ part, a function take nsibasewindow as param hwnd getparentwindowhwnd(nsibasewindow *window) { nativewi...
... see the article: standard os libraries - unix section) windows components.utils.import('resource://gre/modules/services.jsm'); var browserwindow = services.wm.getmostrecentwindow('navigator:browser'); if (!browserwindow) { throw new error('no browser window found'); } var basewindow = browserwindow.queryinterface(ci.nsiinterfacerequestor) .getinterface(ci.nsiwebnavigation) .queryinterface(ci.nsidocshelltreeitem) .treeowner .queryinterface(ci.nsiinterfacerequestor) .getinterface(ci.nsibasewindow); var hwndstring = basewindow.nativehandle; components.utils.import('resource://gre/modules/ctypes.jsm'); var user32 = ctypes.open('user32.dll'); /* h...
...groundwindow.tostring()); user32.close(); mac os x objective-c components.utils.import('resource://gre/modules/services.jsm'); var browserwindow = services.wm.getmostrecentwindow('navigator:browser'); if (!browserwindow) { throw new error('no browser window found'); } var basewindow = browserwindow.queryinterface(ci.nsiinterfacerequestor) .getinterface(ci.nsiwebnavigation) .queryinterface(ci.nsidocshelltreeitem) .treeowner .queryinterface(ci.nsiinterfacerequestor) .getinterface(ci.nsibasewindow); var nswindowstring = basewindow.nativehandle; components.utils.import('resource://gre/modules/ctypes.jsm'); var objc = ctypes.open(ctypes.libraryname...
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nsISHistoryListener
lean onhistorygoforward(in nsiuri aforwarduri); boolean onhistorygotoindex(in long aindex, in nsiuri agotouri); void onhistorynewentry(in nsiuri anewuri); boolean onhistorypurge(in long anumentries); boolean onhistoryreload(in nsiuri areloaduri, in unsigned long areloadflags); methods onhistorygoback() called when navigating to a previous session history entry, for example due to an nsiwebnavigation.goback() call.
...onhistorygoforward() called when navigating to a next session history entry, for example due to an nsiwebnavigation.goforward() call.
...onhistorygotoindex() called when navigating to a session history entry by index, for example, when nsiwebnavigation.gotoindex() is called.
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HTML to DOM - Archive of obsolete content
.createelement("iframe"); // iframe (or browser on older firefox) frame.setattribute("id", "sample-frame"); frame.setattribute("name", "sample-frame"); frame.setattribute("type", "content"); frame.setattribute("collapsed", "true"); document.getelementbyid("main-window").appendchild(frame); // or // document.documentelement.appendchild(frame); // set restrictions as needed frame.webnavigation.allowauth = false; frame.webnavigation.allowimages = false; frame.webnavigation.allowjavascript = false; frame.webnavigation.allowmetaredirects = true; frame.webnavigation.allowplugins = false; frame.webnavigation.allowsubframes = false; // listen for load frame.addeventlistener("load", function (event) { // the document of the html in the dom var doc = event.originaltarget; ...
...t.getelementbyid("sample-frame"); // remove frame // frame.destroy(); // if using browser element instead of iframe frame.parentnode.removechild(frame); // or set location "about:blank" // frame.contentdocument.location.href = "about:blank"; },10); }, true); } // load a page frame.contentdocument.location.href = "http://www.mozilla.org/"; // or // frame.webnavigation.loaduri("http://www.mozilla.org/",components.interfaces.nsiwebnavigation,null,null,null); if you are starting with an html string, you can convert it to a data uri and use that to load in the browser element.
... <vbox hidden="false" height="0"> <iframe type="content" src="" name="donkey-browser" hidden="false" id="donkey-browser" height="0"/> </vbox> then, in your extension's "load" event handler: onload: function() { donkeybrowser = document.getelementbyid("donkey-browser"); if (donkeybrowser) { donkeybrowser.style.height = "0px"; donkeybrowser.webnavigation.allowauth = true; donkeybrowser.webnavigation.allowimages = false; donkeybrowser.webnavigation.allowjavascript = false; donkeybrowser.webnavigation.allowmetaredirects = true; donkeybrowser.webnavigation.allowplugins = false; donkeybrowser.webnavigation.allowsubframes = false; donkeybrowser.addeventlistener("domcontentloaded", function (e) { donkeyfire.donkeybrowser_onpageload(e); }, t...
... but, we still need to see how to execute the famous loaduri() method using our iframe: donkeybrowser.webnavigation.loaduri("http://developer.mozilla.org", components.interfaces.nsiwebnavigation, null, null, null); also, i recommend you take a look at the nsiwebnavigation interface.

browser - Archive of obsolete content
y, disableglobalhistory, disablesecurity, droppedlinkhandler, homepage, showcaret, src, type properties accessibletype, cangoback, cangoforward, contentdocument, contentprincipal, contenttitle, contentvieweredit, contentviewerfile, contentwindow, currenturi, docshell, documentcharsetinfo, homepage, markupdocumentviewer, messagemanager, preferences, securityui, sessionhistory, webbrowserfind, webnavigation, webprogress methods addprogresslistener, goback, goforward, gohome, gotoindex, loaduri, loaduriwithflags, reload, reloadwithflags, removeprogresslistener, stop, swapdocshells examples <!-- shows mozilla homepage inside a groupbox --> <groupbox flex="1"> <caption label="mozilla homepage"/> <browser type="content" src="http://www.mozilla.org" flex="1"/> </groupbox> attributes ...
... webnavigation type: nsiwebnavigation this read-only property contains the nsiwebnavigation object for the document.
... (see nsiwebnavigation.loaduri() for details on the referrer and postdata parameters.) reload() return type: no return value reloads the document in the browser element on which you call this method.
...the flags listed below may be used, which are all constants of the webnavigation property (or the nsiwebnavigation interface).

tabbrowser - Archive of obsolete content
ontenttooltip, handlectrlpageupdown, onbookmarkgroup, onnewtab, tabmodalpromptshowing properties browsers, cangoback, cangoforward, contentdocument, contenttitle, contentvieweredit, contentviewerfile, contentwindow, currenturi, docshell, documentcharsetinfo, homepage, markupdocumentviewer, securityui, selectedbrowser, selectedtab, sessionhistory, tabcontainer, tabs, visibletabs, webbrowserfind, webnavigation, webprogress methods addprogresslistener, addtab, addtabsprogresslistener,appendgroup, getbrowseratindex, getbrowserindexfordocument, getbrowserfordocument, getbrowserfortab, geticon, getnotificationbox, gettabforbrowser, gettabmodalpromptbox, goback, gobackgroup, goforward, goforwardgroup, gohome, gotoindex, loadgroup, loadonetab, loadtabs, loaduri, loaduriwithflags, movetabto, pintab, reload,...
... webnavigation type: nsiwebnavigation this read-only property contains the nsiwebnavigation object for the document.
... (see nsiwebnavigation.loaduri() for details on the referrer and postdata parameters.) movetabto(tab, index) return type: tab element tries to moves an existing tab to a given index.
...the flags listed below may be used, which are all constants of the webnavigation property (or the nsiwebnavigation interface).

Overview of Mozilla embedding APIs
contract-id: ns_webbrowser_contractid implemented interfaces: nsiwebbrowser nsiwebnavigation nsiwebbrowsersetup nsiwebbrowserpersist nsiwebbrowserfind nsiwebbrowserprint nsiwebbrowserfocus nsibasewindow requestor interfaces: nsidomwindow nsidomdocument nsiwebprogress nsiclipboardcommands nsiprompt related interfaces: nsiprompt nsiwebbrowserchrome nsiwebbrowsersitewindow nsiwebprogresslistener nsicontextmenulistener nsiprintoptions overview: most of ...
... // save webbrowser before it goes out of scope :-) web navigation the nsiwebnavigation interface is used to load uris into the webbrowser and provide access to session history capabilities - such as back and forward.
...being reviewed interface definition: nsiwebbrowserchrome.idl nsiwebnavigation this interface exposes the web navigation functionality of the nswebbrowser component.
...being reviewed interface definition: nsiwebnavigation.idl nsiwebbrowserpersist this interface exposes the save-as functionality of the nswebbrowser component.

nsIDocShell
see nsiwebnavigation.load_flags_first_load.
...flags are defined in nsiwebnavigation.
...flags are defined in nsiwebnavigation.
...note if you want to get the current uri, use the read-only property on nsiwebnavigation.

Tabbed browser - Archive of obsolete content
from a sidebar basically, if your extension code is a sidebar you can use: var mainwindow = window.queryinterface(components.interfaces.nsiinterfacerequestor) .getinterface(components.interfaces.nsiwebnavigation) .queryinterface(components.interfaces.nsidocshelltreeitem) .roottreeitem .queryinterface(components.interfaces.nsiinterfacerequestor) .getinterface(components.interfaces.nsidomwindow); mainwindow.gbrowser.addtab(...); from a dialog if your code is running in a dialog opened directly by a browser windo...
... url = ohttp.uri.spec; //can get url without needing loadcontext if (loadcontext) { var contentwindow = loadcontext.associatedwindow; //this is the html window of the page that just loaded //adomwindow this is the firefox window holding the tab var adomwindow = contentwindow.top.queryinterface(ci.nsiinterfacerequestor).getinterface(ci.nsiwebnavigation).queryinterface(ci.nsidocshelltreeitem).roottreeitem.queryinterface(ci.nsiinterfacerequestor).getinterface(ci.nsidomwindow); var gbrowser = adomwindow.gbrowser; //this is the gbrowser object of the firefox window this tab is in var atab = gbrowser._gettabforcontentwindow(contentwindow.top); //this is the clickable tab xul element, the one found in the tab strip of ...
... loadcontext.associatedwindow; if (!contentwindow) { //this channel does not have a window, its probably loading a resource //this probably means that its loading an ajax call or like a google ad thing return null; } else { var adomwindow = contentwindow.top.queryinterface(ci.nsiinterfacerequestor) .getinterface(ci.nsiwebnavigation) .queryinterface(ci.nsidocshelltreeitem) .roottreeitem .queryinterface(ci.nsiinterfacerequestor) .getinterface(ci.nsidomwindow); var gbrowser = adomwindow.gbrowser; var atab = gbrowser._gettabforcontentwindow(contentwindow.top); //this is the clickable tab xul element, the one found in the tab strip of the fir...

Index
a handle to the session history object can be obtained from nsiwebnavigation.
... in a non-embedded situation, the owner of the session history component must create a instance of it and set it in the nsiwebnavigation object.
...to create an instance, use: 1067 nsiwebcontenthandlerregistrar interfaces, interfaces:scriptable, xpcom, xpcom api reference, xpcom interface reference implemented by @mozilla.org/embeddor.implemented/web-content-handler-registrar;1 as a service: 1068 nsiwebnavigation interfaces, interfaces:scriptable, xpcom, xpcom api reference, xpcom interface reference this interface is implemented by the following components: 1069 nsiwebnavigationinfo interfaces, interfaces:scriptable, mime, xpcom interface reference implemented by: @mozilla.org/webnavigation-info;1 as a service: 1070 nsiwebpagedescriptor interfaces, interfaces...

nsIDragDropHandler
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void detach(); void hookupto(in nsidomeventtarget attachpoint, in nsiwebnavigation navigator); methods detach() unregisters all handlers related to drag and drop.
...void hookupto( in nsidomeventtarget attachpoint, in nsiwebnavigation navigator ); parameters attachpoint the receiver to which to attach drag handlers.
... navigator the nsiwebnavigation object to handle the dropped urls.

Index - Archive of obsolete content
(this one has no post data parameter, see loaduriwithflags for a version that does) 1262 loaduriwithflags xul methods, xul reference (see nsiwebnavigation.loaduri() for details on the referrer and postdata parameters.) 1263 makeeditable xul methods, xul reference no summary!
... 1614 webnavigation needshelp, xul properties, xul reference no summary!

Document Loading - From Load Start to Finding a Handler - Archive of obsolete content
nsdocshell implements too many interfaces to count; the ones that matter to us most are nsiwebnavigation and nsilinkhandler.
...these can come in via nsiwebnavigation (a scriptable embedding interface) or nsilinkhandler (an internal interface used for link clicks).