Using the Gecko SDK
this guide explains how to build xpcom components in c++ using the gecko sdk.
...mponents in c++ using the gecko sdk.
...elopment.
...And 4 more matches

Gecko Logging
a minimal c++ logging framework is provided for use in core gecko code.
...el::error, ("i should be 10!")); } } enabling logging the log level for a module is controlled by setting an environment variable before launching the application.
...etting an environment variable before launching the application.
...And 2 more matches

Gecko Chrome
this page contains information specific to chrome code running in gecko.
... this page contains information specific to chrome code running in gecko.
... this page contains information specific to chrome code running in gecko.
...n gecko.

Gecko Coding Help Wanted - Archive of obsolete content
ignatures.
...ed code readability, reduced code size, and sped up performance.

Boot2Gecko - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
boot2gecko (b2g) is the engineering codename for firefox os and refers to builds that haven't yet received official firefox os branding.
... boot2gecko (b2g) is the engineering codename for firefox os and refers to builds that haven't yet received official firefox os branding.

Gecko events
« at apis support page this page offers a list of accessibility-related events supported by gecko.
...ect to a non-hypertext object.

Extending Gecko with XBL and XTF - Archive of obsolete content
presentation view online download summary this session explored ways to extend mozilla/firefox to handle new xml tags and namespaces via drop-in extensions to the layout engine.

Gecko's "Almost Standards" Mode
ks" and "standards" modes.

Profiling with the Gecko Profiler and Local Symbols on Windows
me too much memory when creating the symbol table for this to work in 32 bit firefox builds.

Gecko object attributes
for the <html:img/> element.

Gecko Roles
« at apis support page this page offers a list of accessible roles used in gecko.

Gecko states
« at apis support page introduction below you will find a list of supported states by gecko.

Gecko Plugin API Reference - Plugins
plug-in basics how plug-ins are used plug-ins and helper applications how plug-ins work understanding the runtime model plug-in detection how gecko finds plug-ins checking plug-ins by mime type overview of plug-in structure understanding the plug-in api plug-ins and platform independence windowed and windowless plug-ins the default plug-in using html to display plug-ins plug-in display modes using the object element for plug-in display nesting rules for html elements using the appropriate attributes using the embed element for plug-in display using custom embed attributes plug-in references plug-in development overview writing plug-ins registering plug-ins ms windows unix mac os x drawin...

Browser Detection and Cross Browser Support - Archive of obsolete content
ser detection can lead to web maintenance nightmares.
...thinking the basics of when and how to detect user agents is crucial to creating maintainable, cross browser web content.
...how to detect user agents is crucial to creating maintainable, cross browser web content.
...And 94 more matches

Index - Archive of obsolete content
unit testing add-on sdk, jpm no summary!
...that implement the nsijetpackservice interface, and their parent chrome process communicates with them via the nsijetpack interface.
...ervice interface, and their parent chrome process communicates with them via the nsijetpack interface.
...And 68 more matches

Firefox user agent string reference - HTTP
this document describes the user agent string used in firefox 4 and later and applications based on gecko 2.0 and later.
... this document describes the user agent string used in firefox 4 and later and applications based on gecko 2.0 and later.
...describes the user agent string used in firefox 4 and later and applications based on gecko 2.0 and later.
...And 67 more matches

imgIContainer
image/public/imgicontainer.idlscriptable represents an image in the gecko rendering engine.
... image/public/imgicontainer.idlscriptable represents an image in the gecko rendering engine.
...ner.idlscriptable represents an image in the gecko rendering engine.
...And 57 more matches

Index
e current version, any built component may fail.
... is a possiblity that is introduced when upgrading to a new compiler without recompiling everything.
...dling multiple binary components binary xpcom components are sometimes required to implement low-level features for extensions.
...And 54 more matches

nsINavBookmarksService
toolkit/components/places/nsinavbookmarksservice.idlscriptable the bookmarksservice interface provides methods for managing bookmarked history items.
... toolkit/components/places/nsinavbookmarksservice.idlscriptable the bookmarksservice interface provides methods for managing bookmarked history items.
...zilla.org/browser/nav-bookmarks-service;1.
...And 54 more matches

nsIDOMWindowUtils
dom/interfaces/base/nsidomwindowutils.idlscriptable this interface is a dom utility interface that provides useful dom methods and attributes.
... dom/interfaces/base/nsidomwindowutils.idlscriptable this interface is a dom utility interface that provides useful dom methods and attributes.
...oid clearmozafterpaintevents(); pruint32 comparecanvases(in nsidomhtmlcanvaselement acanvas1, in nsidomhtmlcanvaselement acanvas2, out unsigned long amaxdifference); double computeanimationdistance(in nsidomelement element, in astring property, in astring value1, in astring value2); nsicompositionstringsynthesizer createcompositionstringsynthesizer(); obsolete since gecko 38.0 void disablenontestmouseevents(in boolean adisable); boolean dispatchdomeventviapresshell(in nsidomnode atarget, in nsidomevent aevent, in boolean atrusted); nsidomelement elementfrompoint(in float ax, in float ay, in boolean aignorerootscrollframe, in boolean aflushlayout); void entermodalstate(); nsidomelement findelementwithviewid(in nsview...
...And 44 more matches

Index - Web APIs
nderingcontext2d.drawwidgetasonscreen() api, canvas, canvasrenderingcontext2d, method, non-standard, reference the non-standard and internal only canvasrenderingcontext2d.drawwidgetasonscreen() method of the canvas 2d api renders the root widget of a window into the canvas.
...ment, the document.createelement() method creates the html element specified by tagname, or an htmlunknownelement if tagname isn't recognized.
...erence, xpath, createexpression this method compiles an xpathexpression which can then be used for (repeated) evaluations.
...And 43 more matches

Textbox (XPFE autocomplete) - Archive of obsolete content
ionbyname, getsessionresultat, getsessionstatusat, getsessionvalueat, removesession, select, setselectionrange, syncsessions examples (example needed) attributes accesskey type: character this should be set to a character that is used as a shortcut key.
...used as a shortcut key.
... addrbook new in thunderbird 3 requires seamonkey 2.0 the user's address book is searched.
...And 37 more matches

Windows Media in Netscape - Archive of obsolete content
right browser like internet explorer, netscape 7.1 and later versions can play windows media files using the popular windows media player activex control.
...ul for client-side detection detection using the user agent string which is useful for server side detection.
...ndows media player is installed.
...And 37 more matches

Mozilla Application Framework in Detail - Archive of obsolete content
ndards such as xslt and rdf.
... rdf.
...oap, or other xml-based languages and convert them into a form that you might display in your user interface.
...And 33 more matches

Plug-in Basics - Plugins
next » how plug-ins are used plug-ins offer a rich variety of features that can increase the flexibility of gecko-based browsers.
... a helper application.
... about helper applications, refer to the netscape online help.
...And 25 more matches

nsIContentPolicy - Archive of obsolete content
dom/base/nsicontentpolicy.idlscriptable interface used to implement a content policy mechanism.
... dom/base/nsicontentpolicy.idlscriptable interface used to implement a content policy mechanism.
...elements).
...And 24 more matches

nsIAppShellService
xpfe/appshell/nsiappshellservice.idlscriptable provides the appshellservice.
...st changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) implemented by: @mozilla.org/appshell/appshellservice;1 as a service: var appshellservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/appshellservice;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiappshellservice); method overview void closetoplevelwindow(in nsixulwindow awindow); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void createhiddenwindow(in nsiappshell aappshell); native code only!
...["@mozilla.org/appshell/appshellservice;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiappshellservice); method overview void closetoplevelwindow(in nsixulwindow awindow); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void createhiddenwindow(in nsiappshell aappshell); native code only!
...And 23 more matches

nsIFaviconService
toolkit/components/places/public/nsifaviconservice.idlscriptable stores favicons for pages in bookmarks and history.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsifaviconservice.idlscriptable stores favicons for pages in bookmarks and history.
....org/browser/favicon-service;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsifaviconservice); method overview void addfailedfavicon(in nsiuri afaviconuri); void expireallfavicons(); void getfavicondata(in nsiuri afaviconuri, out autf8string amimetype, [optional] out unsigned long adatalen, [array,retval,size_is(adatalen)] out octet adata); obsolete since gecko 22.0 astring getfavicondataasdataurl(in nsiuri afaviconuri); obsolete since gecko 22.0 nsiuri getfaviconforpage(in nsiuri apageuri); obsolete since gecko 22.0 nsiuri getfaviconimageforpage(in nsiuri apageuri); obsolete since gecko 22.0 nsiuri getfaviconlinkforicon(in nsiuri afaviconuri); boolean isfailedfavicon(in nsiuri afaviconuri); void re...
...And 23 more matches

AT APIs Support
introduction documentation is in progress still.
...the meantime it more up-to-date and contains more details than existed analogues for at-spi and msaa this documentation explains how makers of screen readers, voice dictation packages, onscreen keyboards, magnification software and other assitive technologies can support gecko-based software.
...ntime it more up-to-date and contains more details than existed analogues for at-spi and msaa this documentation explains how makers of screen readers, voice dictation packages, onscreen keyboards, magnification software and other assitive technologies can support gecko-based software.
...And 21 more matches

Embedded Dialog API
posing gecko dialogs in embedding applications problem statement an application embedding gecko cannot tightly control its own windows and still allow gecko to be a fully functional web browser.
... posing gecko dialogs in embedding applications problem statement an application embedding gecko cannot tightly control its own windows and still allow gecko to be a fully functional web browser.
...er.
...And 21 more matches

IME handling guide
this document explains how gecko handles ime.
...(i.e., user cannot enable ime), we call this state "disabled".
...ly.
...And 18 more matches

Finishing the Component
« previousnext » at this point you have created most of the infrastructure of the component.
... is publicly available, and interfaces can be used easily enough.
...ly enough.
...And 18 more matches

Mozilla
trives to make its software accessible; the documents below cover the ways in which we do so.
... add-ons add-ons allow developers to extend and modify the functionality of firefox.
...perations, and you can also decide not to use any of my scripts and manually enter all of the commands by hand.
...And 18 more matches

Mozilla Quirks Mode Behavior
the following is a rough list of the differences that exist between mozilla's standards mode and quirks mode behavior.
... the css parser allows {} around the contents of style attributes (bug 99554).
... relative to body in quirks mode (instead of html) (bug 211030).
...And 17 more matches

nsIProcess
xpcom/threads/nsiprocess.idlscriptable this interface represents an executable process.
...t changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) implemented by: @mozilla.org/process/util;1.
...cription exitvalue long the value returned by the process upon exit.
...And 17 more matches

nsIBrowserHistory
toolkit/components/places/public/nsibrowserhistory.idlscriptable a browser-specific interface to global history.
...0 / seamonkey 2.19) implemented by: @mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1.
... to use this service, use: var browserhistory = components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsibrowserhistory); method overview void addpagewithdetails(in nsiuri auri, in wstring atitle, in long long alastvisited); obsolete since gecko 15.0 void markpageasfollowedlink(in nsiuri auri); obsolete since gecko 22.0 void markpageastyped(in nsiuri auri); obsolete since gecko 22.0 void registeropenpage(in nsiuri auri); obsolete since gecko 9.0 void removeallpages(); void removepage(in nsiuri auri); void removepages([array, size_is(alength)] in nsiuri auris, in unsigned long alength, in boolean adobatchnotify); void removepagesbytimeframe(in long long...
...And 16 more matches

nsITreeView
layout/xul/base/src/tree/public/nsitreeview.idlscriptable this interface is used by the tree widget to get information about what and how to display a tree widget.
... performance dramatically, and removes the need to make changes to the tree manually when changes to the database occur.
...he tree manually when changes to the database occur.
...And 16 more matches

Browser detection using the user agent - HTTP
are looking for?
... chrome and safari.
...will contain a valid number.
...And 16 more matches

JNI.jsm
lyqualifiedname a sig of a typed array or the name of the class that would be used in a signature, but without the surrounding l and ;.
... that would be used in a signature, but without the surrounding l and ;.
...would be used in a signature, but without the surrounding l and ;.
...And 15 more matches

nsIEditorIMESupport
editor/idl/nsieditorimesupport.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... editor/idl/nsieditorimesupport.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... editor/idl/nsieditorimesupport.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...And 14 more matches

User-Agent - HTTP
on format for web browsers: user-agent: mozilla/5.0 (<system-information>) <platform> (<platform-details>) <extensions> directives <product> a product identifier — its name or development codename.
...fier — its name or development codename.
...ame or development codename.
...And 14 more matches

Obsolete Build Caveats and Tips
professional from build_instructions those who need to work with the code for firefox 3/mozilla 1.9 and earlier can check out the latest source using cvs.
.../msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dh8che7s%28v=vs.110%29.aspx note: starting with gecko 7.0, you should no longer include "-zc:wchar_t-" in the command line when building on windows.
...rcurial mozilla-2.0 (firefox 4.0) code for the firefox 4.0 (gecko 2.0) release lives in releases/mozilla-2.0.
...And 13 more matches

Following the Android Toasts Tutorial from a JNI Perspective
: [ { name: 'length_short', sig: sig.int } ] }); getapplicationcontext() many jni codes need an entry point, sometimes it is the context, sometimes it is the activity.
...s it is the context, sometimes it is the activity.
...s it is the activity.
...And 13 more matches

Starting WebLock
u've built up so far doesn't do anything.
...ing.
...r remove an observer to a notification topic.
...And 13 more matches

nsIDocumentLoader
uriloader/base/nsidocumentloader.idlscriptable this interface responsible for tracking groups of loads that belong together (images, external scripts, and so on.) and subdocuments (iframe, frame, and so on.).
...erits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/docloaderservice;1.
...0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/docloaderservice;1.
...And 13 more matches

Component; nsIPrefBranch
component: nsiprefbranch modules/libpref/public/nsiprefbranch.idlscriptable this interface is used to manipulate the preferences data.
...omepage_override" can be accessed by simply passing "page", "homepage", or "homepage_override" to the various get/set methods.
...rious get/set methods.
...And 13 more matches

nsIAppShell
widget/public/nsiappshell.idlnot scriptable interface for the native event system layer.
... widget/public/nsiappshell.idlnot scriptable interface for the native event system layer.
... interface for the native event system layer.
...And 12 more matches

nsINavBookmarkObserver
toolkit/components/places/nsinavbookmarksservice.idlscriptable this interface is an observer for bookmark changes.
... toolkit/components/places/nsinavbookmarksservice.idlscriptable this interface is an observer for bookmark changes.
...this interface is an observer for bookmark changes.
...And 12 more matches

Using XPInstall to Install Plugins - Archive of obsolete content
parts of this page show the use of the xpinstall api.
...etup.exe experience on windows) or obliging the user to restart their browser.
...la browsers, changing their look and feel.
...And 11 more matches

textbox - Archive of obsolete content
ement will, however, still respond to mouse events.
...e a disabled property which, except for menus and menuitems, is normally preferred to use of the attribute, as it may need to update additional state.
...lines replaced with commas replacewithspaces pastes the text with newlines replaced with spaces strip pastes the text with the newlines removed stripsurroundingwhitespace pastes the text with newlines and adjacent whitespace removed onblur type: script code this event is sent when a textbox loses keyboard focus.
...And 11 more matches

Index - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
of operation, usually just called a "mode" in context, specifies how a block cipher should be used to encrypt or decrypt messages that are longer than the block size.
...usually just called a "mode" in context, specifies how a block cipher should be used to encrypt or decrypt messages that are longer than the block size.
... cipher should be used to encrypt or decrypt messages that are longer than the block size.
...And 11 more matches

Profiling with the Firefox Profiler
ls have a simplified interface targeted towards web developers, but does not include as much information as the firefox profiler web app.
...lected ranges or the entire profile (denoted as "full range").
...ine(s) thread/process timelines: below the tracing markers we have a list of profiled threads.
...And 11 more matches

nsIDOMNSHTMLDocument
dom/interfaces/html/nsidomnshtmldocument.idlscriptable this interface defines methods and properties supported by gecko on the document object that are not part of dom level 2.
... dom/interfaces/html/nsidomnshtmldocument.idlscriptable this interface defines methods and properties supported by gecko on the document object that are not part of dom level 2.
... that are not part of dom level 2.
...And 11 more matches

nsIDocShell
docshell/base/nsidocshell.idlscriptable ???
... void createaboutblankcontentviewer(in nsiprincipal aprincipal); void createloadinfo(out nsidocshellloadinfo loadinfo); void detacheditorfromwindow(); violates the xpcom interface guidelines void finishrestore(); void firepagehidenotification(in boolean isunload); native code only!
...unless the only reason for js being disabled in this docshell is a parent docshell having a document that is in design mode.
...And 11 more matches

nsIDownloadManager
deprecated as of firefox 26.
...downloadtype, in nsiuri asource, in nsiuri atarget, in astring adisplayname, in nsimimeinfo amimeinfo, in prtime astarttime, in nsilocalfile atempfile, in nsicancelable acancelable, in boolean aisprivate); void addlistener(in nsidownloadprogresslistener alistener); void canceldownload(in unsigned long aid); void cleanup(); void endbatchupdate(); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 void flush(); obsolete since gecko 1.8 nsidownload getdownload(in unsigned long aid); void onclose(); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 void open(in nsidomwindow aparent, in nsidownload adownload); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 void openprogressdialogfor(in nsidownload adownload, in nsidomwindow aparent, in boolean acanceldownloadonclose); obsolete since...
...1.9.1 void flush(); obsolete since gecko 1.8 nsidownload getdownload(in unsigned long aid); void onclose(); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 void open(in nsidomwindow aparent, in nsidownload adownload); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 void openprogressdialogfor(in nsidownload adownload, in nsidomwindow aparent, in boolean acanceldownloadonclose); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 void pausedownload(in unsigned long aid); void removedownload(in unsigned long aid); void removedownloadsbytimeframe(in long long abegintime, in long long aendtime); void removelistener(in nsidownloadprogresslistener alistener); void resumedownload(in unsigned long aid); void retrydownload(in unsigned long aid); void savestat...
...And 11 more matches

nsIGlobalHistory3
docshell/base/nsiglobalhistory3.idlscriptable this interface provides information about global history to gecko.
... docshell/base/nsiglobalhistory3.idlscriptable this interface provides information about global history to gecko.
... docshell/base/nsiglobalhistory3.idlscriptable this interface provides information about global history to gecko.
...And 11 more matches

nsITextInputProcessor
dom/interfaces/base/nsitextinputprocessor.idlscriptable this interface is a text input events synthesizer and manages its composition and modifier state 1.0 66 introduced gecko 38 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 38.0 (firefox 38.0 / thunderbird 38.0 / seamonkey 2.35) the motivation of this interface is to provide better api than nsidomwindowutils to dispatch key events and create, modify, and commit composition in higher level.
...ts with wrong rules.
...ementation of this interface manages modifier state and composition state, initializes dom events from minimum information, and doesn't dispatch some events if they are not necessary.
...And 11 more matches

nsIXPConnect
js/src/xpconnect/idl/nsixpconnect.idlnot scriptable provides the xpconnect service.
...); native code only!
... ascope, in nsisupports acomobj, in nsiidref aiid); nsixpconnectjsobjectholder getwrappednativeprototype(in jscontextptr ajscontext, in jsobjectptr ascope, in nsiclassinfo aclassinfo); jsval getwrapperforobject(in jscontextptr ajscontext, in jsobjectptr aobject, in jsobjectptr ascope, in nsiprincipal aprincipal, in unsigned long afilenameflags); native code only!
...And 11 more matches

Implementing a Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) Server - Accessibility
ers and how mozilla does it contents this document is for developers working to support msaa in an application in order to make it accessible with 3rd party assistive technologies, as well as for hackers wishing to be involved in mozilla's msaa support specifically.
...nts this document is for developers working to support msaa in an application in order to make it accessible with 3rd party assistive technologies, as well as for hackers wishing to be involved in mozilla's msaa support specifically.
...rder to make it accessible with 3rd party assistive technologies, as well as for hackers wishing to be involved in mozilla's msaa support specifically.
...And 11 more matches

Chrome registration
what is chrome?
...ace elements of the application window that are outside the window's content area.
...code.
...And 10 more matches

nsIAccessibleTable
accessible/public/nsiaccessibletable.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibletable.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...table.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...And 10 more matches

nsIDBFolderInfo
nsidbfolderinfo - careful, pulled from the wrong (cvs) repo!
...long delta); void changenummessages(in long delta); void changenumunreadmessages(in long delta); boolean getbooleanproperty(in string propertyname, in boolean defaultvalue); void getcharacterset(out acstring charset, out boolean overriden); void getcharactersetoverride(out boolean charactersetoverride); obsolete since gecko 1.8 string getcharptrcharacterset(); string getcharptrproperty(in string propertyname); void getlocale(in nsstring result); native code only!
...ultvalue); void getcharacterset(out acstring charset, out boolean overriden); void getcharactersetoverride(out boolean charactersetoverride); obsolete since gecko 1.8 string getcharptrcharacterset(); string getcharptrproperty(in string propertyname); void getlocale(in nsstring result); native code only!
...And 10 more matches

nsINavHistoryResultObserver
toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable lets clients observe changes to a result as the result updates itself according to bookmark and history system events.
... toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable lets clients observe changes to a result as the result updates itself according to bookmark and history system events.
... toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable lets clients observe changes to a result as the result updates itself according to bookmark and history system events.
...And 10 more matches

Install Manifests - Archive of obsolete content
ast one of these objects, and may specify more if the add-on targets multiple applications that support the add-on manager (e.g.
... optional property reference you may need to supply these properties, depending on the capabilities of your add-on.
...he icon can be up to 48x48 pixels in size.
...And 9 more matches

List of Mozilla-Based Applications - Archive of obsolete content
firefox blackbird browser for african american community bluegriffon wysiwyg editor next generation version of composer buzzbird twitter client built on xulrunner camino browser 2.5m downloads and ~400,000 active users ...
...b document-oriented database uses spidermonkey courtanet benefit (fr) underwriting software for french insurance brokers crosscheck browserless testing framework uses mozilla rhino crowbar server tool cycloctopus screen scraping console cyclone3 content management system danger mobile platform uses gecko on the server side -- no longer active?
...amail email client for windows platform, based on mozilla thunderbird developed by moonchild productions, creator of the pale moon web browser flickr uploadr image upload tool see flickr uploadr: open source and powered by xulrunner foxkeh clock clock frizione javascript development, testing and deployment environment uses mozilla rhino geckofx embeddable gecko gjs javascript bindings for gnome globalmojo browser that raises money for your favorite causes gluescript a javascript engine which can be used as a general purpose language uses mozilla spidermonkey and formerly called wxjavascript gnome operating system gnome 3 will use spidermonkey through gjs goo...
...And 9 more matches

The First Install Problem - Archive of obsolete content
this is an old working document; see en/gecko_plugin_api_reference/plug-in_development_overview for current information.
... this is an old working document; see en/gecko_plugin_api_reference/plug-in_development_overview for current information.
... this is an old working document; see en/gecko_plugin_api_reference/plug-in_development_overview for current information.
...And 9 more matches

Script security
this page provides an overview of the script security architecture in gecko.
... this page provides an overview of the script security architecture in gecko.
... web pages and run it on the user's computer.
...And 9 more matches

Component Internals
string implementations.
...for use by clients.
....
...And 9 more matches

Preface
next » this is a book about gecko, and about creating xpcom components for gecko-based applications.
... next » this is a book about gecko, and about creating xpcom components for gecko-based applications.
...ship between components and modules, of xpcom interfaces, and of the registration process in general.
...And 9 more matches

nsIAccessNode
accessible/public/nsiaccessnode.idlscriptable an interface used by in-process accessibility clients to get style, window, markup and other information about a dom node.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessnode.idlscriptable an interface used by in-process accessibility clients to get style, window, markup and other information about a dom node.
....0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) the nsiaccessnode implementations are instantiated lazily.
...And 9 more matches

nsIFile
xpcom/io/nsifile.idlscriptable an instance of this interface is a cross-platform representation of a location in the filesystem.
...not have such a limitation.
...a 1.7, this attribute is ignored on unix systems.
...And 9 more matches

nsINavHistoryObserver
toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable this interface is similar to the nsirdfobserver class, but is used to observe interactions on the global history.
... toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable this interface is similar to the nsirdfobserver class, but is used to observe interactions on the global history.
... inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 21.0 (firefox 21.0 / thunderbird 21.0 / seamonkey 2.18) warning: if you are in the middle of a batch transaction, there may be a database transaction active.
...And 9 more matches

Adobe Flash - Archive of obsolete content
in plugin functionality for access via javascript.
...avascript can be used to access methods from within the flash plugin, as well as how a feature called fscommands can be used to access javascript functions from within the flash animation.
...cess javascript functions from within the flash animation.
...And 8 more matches

Overview of Mozilla embedding APIs
ing access to all of the public mozilla interfaces.
...bject which provides some piece of functionality.
...rlying data.
...And 8 more matches

Bundling multiple binary components
background binary xpcom components are sometimes required to implement low-level features for extensions.
... background binary xpcom components are sometimes required to implement low-level features for extensions.
... background binary xpcom components are sometimes required to implement low-level features for extensions.
...And 8 more matches

How to build a binary XPCOM component using Visual Studio
ss platform component object model, similar to microsoft’s com technology.
...ial uses microsoft’s free visual c++ express and the sample project in the next paragraph.
...la.
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nsIPluginHost
dom/plugins/base/nsipluginhost.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...ugins/base/nsipluginhost.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... since gecko 2.0 void deletepluginnativewindow(in nspluginnativewindowptr apluginnativewindow); native code only!
...And 8 more matches

nsIWindowsShellService
browser/components/shell/public/nsiwindowsshellservice.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... browser/components/shell/public/nsiwindowsshellservice.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...ell/public/nsiwindowsshellservice.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
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Attr - Web APIs
="/docs/web/api/attr" target="_top"><rect x="266" y="1" width="75" height="50" fill="#f4f7f8" stroke="#d4dde4" stroke-width="2px" /><text x="303.5" y="30" font-size="12px" font-family="consolas,monaco,andale mono,monospace" fill="#4d4e53" text-anchor="middle" alignment-baseline="middle">attr</text></a></svg></div> a:hover text { fill: #0095dd; pointer-events: all;} warning: starting in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4), a number of deprecated properties and methods output warning messages to the console.
...l if no prefix is specified.
... only the element holding the attribute.
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Introduction - Archive of obsolete content
mozilla-related development.
...lity, and localization, among others.
...ocalization, among others.
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Mozilla Web Developer FAQ
this document answers questions that web authors ask frequently specifically in connection with firefox and other gecko-based browsers.
... this document answers questions that web authors ask frequently specifically in connection with firefox and other gecko-based browsers.
... this document answers questions that web authors ask frequently specifically in connection with firefox and other gecko-based browsers.
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Packaging WebLock
n be installed on other systems.
...installation process in mozilla.
...s section on packaging and installing extensions to gecko is necessarily brief.
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nsIAppStartup
toolkit/components/startup/public/nsiappstartup.idlscriptable this interface is intended to be used as application startup service.
... toolkit/components/startup/public/nsiappstartup.idlscriptable this interface is intended to be used as application startup service.
...hunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) implemented by: @mozilla.org/toolkit/app-startup;1.
...And 7 more matches

nsIDOMWindow
dom/interfaces/base/nsidomwindow.idlscriptable this interface is the primary interface for a window object.
... dom/interfaces/base/nsidomwindow.idlscriptable this interface is the primary interface for a window object.
...rfaces/base/nsidomwindow.idlscriptable this interface is the primary interface for a window object.
...And 7 more matches

nsIIdleService
widget/nsiidleservice.idlscriptable the idle service lets you monitor how long the user has been 'idle', that is they have not used their mouse or keyboard.
... widget/nsiidleservice.idlscriptable the idle service lets you monitor how long the user has been 'idle', that is they have not used their mouse or keyboard.
....
...And 7 more matches

nsIJSON
dom/interfaces/json/nsijson.idlscriptable this interface provides a convenient way to encode and decode json strings from javascript code.
... dom/interfaces/json/nsijson.idlscriptable this interface provides a convenient way to encode and decode json strings from javascript code.
...s["@mozilla.org/dom/json;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsijson); method overview note: the idl file has portions of the idl commented out because they represent things that can't actually be properly described by idl; however, for the purposes of this article, we'll pretend they can be and ignore that issue.
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nsILocalFileMac
xpcom/io/nsilocalfilemac.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
.../nsilocalfilemac.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... only!
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nsIScrollable
/docshell/base/nsiscrollable.idlscriptable this interface can be implemented by a control that supports scrolling.
...hell/base/nsiscrollable.idlscriptable this interface can be implemented by a control that supports scrolling.
...9.0 / seamonkey 2.26) method overview long getcurscrollpos(in long scrollorientation); obsolete since gecko 29.0 long getdefaultscrollbarpreferences(in long scrollorientation); void getscrollbarvisibility(out boolean verticalvisible, out boolean horizontalvisible); void getscrollrange(in long scrollorientation, out long minpos, out long maxpos); obsolete since gecko 29.0 void setcurscrollpos(in long scrollorientation, in long curpos); obsolete since gecko 29.0 void setcurscrollposex(in long curhorizontalpos, in long curverticalpos); obsolete since gecko 29.0 void setdefaultscrollbarpreferences(in long scrollorientation, in long scrollbarpref); void setscrollrange(in long scrollorientation, in long minpos, in long maxpos); ...
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CanvasRenderingContext2D - Web APIs
only canvasrenderingcontext2d.webkitbackingstorepixelratio the backing store size in relation to the canvas element.
...d.mozcurrenttransform sets or gets the current transformation matrix, see canvasrenderingcontext2d.currenttransform.
...renttransforminverse sets or gets the current inversed transformation matrix.
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Using URL values for the cursor property - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
gecko 1.8 supports url values for the css cursor property on windows and linux.
... gecko 1.8 supports url values for the css cursor property on windows and linux.
... gecko 1.8 supports url values for the css cursor property on windows and linux.
...And 7 more matches

HTML5 Parser - Developer guides
gecko 2 introduces a new parser, based on html5.
...ad, improving overall browser responsiveness.
... html5 specification provides a more detailed description than previous html standards of how to turn a stream of bytes into a dom tree.
...And 7 more matches

Appendix D: Loading Scripts - Archive of obsolete content
most add-ons and xul runner applications provide their primary functionality by loading and executing javascript code.
...ntages and disadvantages, as well as its own quirks which may trap the unwary.
... context of the xul window in question and executed immediately and synchronously.
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Priority Content - Archive of obsolete content
o add it.
...ment information to credit original authors.
...devedge devedge mirror note: if you're digging around the mirror and see anything there that you think should be migrated to devmo that isn't on this list, feel free to add it below.
...And 6 more matches

Building Mozilla XForms - Archive of obsolete content
ensions.
...parate repositories.
... build environment by doing a regular firefox build.
...And 6 more matches

DeferredTask.jsm
if you write data to a file and you expect that you may have to rewrite data very soon afterwards.
... constructor requires gecko 18.0(firefox 18.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15) if you have a function call you want to defer for two seconds, you can do so using the deferredtask constructor, like this: var task = new deferredtask(myfunction, 2000); you can also pass a generator function as the first argument of constructor.
...8.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15) if you have a function call you want to defer for two seconds, you can do so using the deferredtask constructor, like this: var task = new deferredtask(myfunction, 2000); you can also pass a generator function as the first argument of constructor.
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OS.File for the main thread
ll native name of the file to open.
...her fields, it may also be opened for writing.
...es to an instance of os.file representing the expected file.
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Web Replay
nd its outputs are recorded in a data stream for the thread performing the call.
...nt and dirty memory parts of the rewind infrastructure to work, and in handling the different graphics and ipc pathways on different platforms.
...ndling the different graphics and ipc pathways on different platforms.
...And 6 more matches

Using the Places history service
each version has implemented the older interfaces, resulting in functionality spread across many interfaces.
... database connection will be closed to allow the last sync, and changes will most likely be lost.
...nection will be closed to allow the last sync, and changes will most likely be lost.
...And 6 more matches

nsIAccessibleDocument
accessible/public/nsiaccessibledocument.idlscriptable an interface for in-process accessibility clients that wish to retrieve information about a document.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibledocument.idlscriptable an interface for in-process accessibility clients that wish to retrieve information about a document.
... / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) you can queryinterface to nsiaccessibledocument from the nsiaccessible or nsiaccessnode for the root node of a document.
...And 6 more matches

nsICacheService
netwerk/cache/public/nsicacheservice.idlscriptable handles visiting and evicting entries operations along with the creating of cache sessions and creation of temporary client ids operations for offline caching.
... netwerk/cache/public/nsicacheservice.idlscriptable handles visiting and evicting entries operations along with the creating of cache sessions and creation of temporary client ids operations for offline caching.
...aching.
...And 6 more matches

nsIZipReader
modules/libjar/nsizipreader.idlscriptable this interface provides methods for reading compressed (zip) files.
...ozilla.org/libjar/zip-reader;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsizipreader); about character sets and code pages note: nsizipreader has a code page problem; that is, in the zip specification, filenames are supposed to use 7-bit ascii; however, most modern filesystems use 8 bit code pages, such as utf-8.
... autf8string.
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Thunderbird Binaries
so that they don't delay the release and will be picked up in future branches.
...y builds the main way you can determine if you are using a trunk or branch build is to click the "help" menu and choose "about".
...h build is to click the "help" menu and choose "about".
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Plug-in Development Overview - Plugins
lug-ins".
...: "multipurpose internet mail extensions (mime) part two: media types" rfc-4288: "media type specifications and registration procedures" there are some variations to how plug-ins are handled on different platforms.
...the "|" character, for example: video/quicktime|audio/aiff|image/jpeg the version stamp will be loaded only if it has been created with the language set to "us english" and the character set to "windows multilingual" in your development environment.
...And 6 more matches

KeyboardEvent.location - Web APIs
was the right-hand version of the key; for example, the right-hand control key is pressed on a standard 101 key us keyboard.
...t have more than one possible location on the keyboard.
...ko always returns dom_key_location_numpad too.
...And 6 more matches

Mozilla CSS extensions - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
on still accepted] -moz-animation-iteration-count [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-animation-name [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-animation-play-state [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-animation-timing-function [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-appearance b -moz-backface-visibility [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-background-clipobsolete since gecko 2 -moz-background-originobsolete since gecko 2 -moz-background-inline-policyobsolete since gecko 32 [superseded by the standard version box-decoration-break] -moz-background-sizeobsolete since gecko 2 -moz-border-end [superseded by the standard version border-inline-end] -moz-border-end-color [superseded by the standard version border-inline-end-color] -moz-border-end-style [supersede...
...oz-font-feature-settings [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-font-language-override [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-hyphens [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-margin-end [superseded by the standard version margin-inline-end] -moz-margin-start [superseded by the standard version margin-inline-start] mask [applying to more than svg] o -moz-opacityobsolete since gecko 1.9.1 -moz-outlineobsolete since gecko 1.9.2 -moz-outline-colorobsolete since gecko 1.9.2 -moz-outline-offsetobsolete since gecko 1.9.2 -moz-outline-styleobsolete since gecko 1.9.2 -moz-outline-widthobsolete since gecko 1.9.2 p -moz-padding-end [superseded by the standard version padding-inline-start] -moz-padding-start [superseded by the standard version padding-inline-end] -mo...
...cko 1.9.2 p -moz-padding-end [superseded by the standard version padding-inline-start] -moz-padding-start [superseded by the standard version padding-inline-end] -moz-perspective [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-perspective-origin [prefixed version still accepted] pointer-events [applying to more than svg] t–u -moz-tab-size -moz-text-align-lastobsolete since gecko 53 -moz-text-decoration-colorobsolete since gecko 39 -moz-text-decoration-lineobsolete since gecko 39 -moz-text-decoration-styleobsolete since gecko 39 -moz-text-size-adjust -moz-transform [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-transform-origin [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-transform-style [prefixed version still accepted] -moz-transition [prefixed version still accepte...
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Performance fundamentals - Web Performance
is power usage.
...l buffer directly for developers to draw on.
... developers to draw on.
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Performance best practices for Firefox front-end engineers
re we paint things to be composited for the user to see.
...bar"); // line 3 var height2 = div2.clientheight; // line 4 dosomething(height1, height2); // line 5 at line 1, we’re setting some style information on a dom node that’s going to result in a reflow - but (at just line 1) it’s okay, because that reflow will happen after the style calculation.
...terruptible reflow?
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Roll your own browser: An embedding how-to
re are two functions that are needed: nsresult ns_initembedding(const char *apath); nsresult ns_termembedding(); pretty self-explanatory.
...rface, familiar netscape 4.x keyboard shortcuts, context menus, etc.
...h the gtkmozembed widget.
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Implementation Details
introduction this article is a reference how gecko implements at apis.
... introduction this article is a reference how gecko implements at apis.
... introduction this article is a reference how gecko implements at apis.
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How to build an XPCOM component in JavaScript
x-xxxxxxxxxxxx)] interface nsihelloworld : nsisupports { string hello(); }; note that you must generate a new uuid for each xpcom component that you create.
...; note that you must generate a new uuid for each xpcom component that you create.
... new uuid for each xpcom component that you create.
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An Overview of XPCOM
opment, it also provides much of the functionality that a development platform provides, such as: component management file abstraction object message passing memory management we will discuss the above items in detail in the coming chapters, but for now, it can be useful to think of xpcom as a platform for component development, in which features such as those listed above are provided.
... we will discuss the above items in detail in the coming chapters, but for now, it can be useful to think of xpcom as a platform for component development, in which features such as those listed above are provided.
...ich features such as those listed above are provided.
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Building the WebLock UI
« previousnext » up until now, we've been building a component that can be installed in any gecko application.
... « previousnext » up until now, we've been building a component that can be installed in any gecko application.
... « previousnext » up until now, we've been building a component that can be installed in any gecko application.
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nsIAlertsService
toolkit/components/alerts/nsialertsservice.idlscriptable this interface can be used to notify the user of something that does not require an immediate reaction.
... toolkit/components/alerts/nsialertsservice.idlscriptable this interface can be used to notify the user of something that does not require an immediate reaction.
...ko 1.7 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 22 (firefox 22 / thunderbird 22 / seamonkey 2.19) by default a message is displayed in a small window that slides up from the bottom of the screen, holds there for a few seconds, then slides down.
...And 5 more matches

nsIContentViewer
docshell/base/nsicontentviewer.idlscriptable handles displaying content.
...ode only!
...tiontimingptr atiming); void setpagemode(in boolean apagemode, in nsiprintsettings aprintsettings); void show(); void stop(); void unload(); obsolete since gecko 1.8 attributes attribute type description container nsisupports domdocument nsidomdocument enablerendering boolean obsolete since gecko 2.0 historyentry nsishentry get the history entry that this viewer will save itself into when destroyed.
...And 5 more matches

nsIXULAppInfo
xpcom/system/nsixulappinfo.idlscriptable this interface provides information about the host application.
... xpcom/system/nsixulappinfo.idlscriptable this interface provides information about the host application.
... xpcom/system/nsixulappinfo.idlscriptable this interface provides information about the host application.
...And 5 more matches

Storage
ent("select * from table_name where id = :row_id"); statement.params.row_id = 1234; use :boundparametername the same way for numeric and non-numeric columns.
...ddrefs(statement)); ns_ensure_success(rv, rv); rv = statement->bindint32parameter(0, 1234); ns_ensure_success(rv, rv); note: numerical indexes for parameters are always one less than the number you write in the sql.
....
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XPCOM
ented in javascript, java, and python in addition to c++.
...ot have the same abi as the current version, any built component may fail.
...ilt component may fail.
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Document - Web APIs
hyperlinks in the document.
...yperlinks.
...places entities, normalizes text nodes, etc.
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KeyboardEvent.getModifierState() - Web APIs
ssed or locked), otherwise, false.
...ctive = event.getmodifierstate(keyarg); returns a boolean parameters keyarg a modifier key value.
...y this isn't supported by platform not supported while scrolllock is locked "shift" ⇧ shift key pressed "super" not supported "symbol" not supported "symbollock" not supported on the other platforms, "alt", "control" and "shift" may be supported.
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Index - Archive of obsolete content
ssors for rdf, xml and sql (mozstorage).
...ts building custom query processors.
... 876 uri xul properties, xul reference no summary!
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XML - Archive of obsolete content
"skinning", dom for the object model and scriptable access, javascript for the linking and behavior, rdf for resources, xml for the structure, and html for the content and some little extras.
...akes interfaces just as our specially created memo is nothing but text unless there is an application for making use of the structure in some way, so too our xul widgets are just marked-up text unless there is software to interpret the structures and render the xul as actual widgets.
...faces just as our specially created memo is nothing but text unless there is an application for making use of the structure in some way, so too our xul widgets are just marked-up text unless there is software to interpret the structures and render the xul as actual widgets.
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Archived Mozilla and build documentation - Archive of obsolete content
these articles are archived, obsolete documents about mozilla, gecko, and the process of building mozilla projects.
...ons.
...an change the skin to "devmo".
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Mozilla accessibility architecture
ment content and ui controls, as well as important events like changes of focus.
...ve accessibility (msaa) on windows and accessibility tool kit (atk) on linux and unix.
... for leaf and text objects also helps speed up tree construction and traversal.
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Promise.jsm
the promise.jsm javascript code module implements the promises/a+ proposal as known in april 2013.
...romise, consider using a dom promise instead.
..., because you want to create a promise and manually resolve or reject it, consider using promiseutils.jsm instead.
...And 4 more matches

nsIAccessibleHyperLink
accessible/public/nsiaccessiblehyperlink.idlscriptable a cross-platform interface that supports hyperlink-specific properties and methods.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessiblehyperlink.idlscriptable a cross-platform interface that supports hyperlink-specific properties and methods.
...ssible/public/nsiaccessiblehyperlink.idlscriptable a cross-platform interface that supports hyperlink-specific properties and methods.
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nsIAccessibleRetrieval
accessible/public/nsiaccessibleretrieval.idlscriptable an interface for in-process accessibility clients wishing to get an nsiaccessible or nsiaccessnode for a given dom node.
...m node.
... overview nsiaccessible getaccessiblefor(in nsidomnode anode); nsiaccessible getaccessibleinshell(in nsidomnode anode, in nsipresshell apresshell); nsiaccessible getaccessibleinweakshell(in nsidomnode anode, in nsiweakreference apresshell); obsolete since gecko 2.0 nsiaccessible getaccessibleinwindow(in nsidomnode anode, in nsidomwindow adomwin); obsolete since gecko 2.0 nsiaccessible getapplicationaccessible(); nsiaccessible getattachedaccessiblefor(in nsidomnode anode); nsiaccessible getcachedaccessible(in nsidomnode anode, in nsiweakreference ashell); obsolete since gecko 2.0 nsiaccessnode getcachedaccessnode(in nsidomnode anode, in nsiweakreference ashell); obsolete since gecko 2.0 nsidomnode getrelevantconte...
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nsIBidiKeyboard
yboard.idlscriptable this interface lets the application detect bidirectional writer users, and do some magic for them.
...m has at least one keyboard for each direction (left-to-right and right-to-left) installed.
... in pruint8 alevel ); parameters alevel if odd set the keyboard to right-to-left, if even set left-to-right.
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KeyboardEvent - Web APIs
, which applies generally to all of the recipients.
...2 and earlier also dispatched the keypress event for these keys.
...eydown keypress keydown keypress <<repeating until the user releases the key>> keyup this is what the dom level 3 specification says should happen.
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Safely loading URIs - Archive of obsolete content
can hang the browser or even crash the operating system in some cases.
...ou're implementing a context menu and you add a "view image" option, the source of the image uri would be the page the image is in, not the chrome document the context menu code is in.
...of the uri is identified and in what is known about the uri to be loaded.
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Shipping a plugin as a Toolkit bundle - Archive of obsolete content
to install a plugin.
...ons including extensions, themes and plugins.
...lugin packages should only need to package a small set of files in the following structure in the xpi file: install.rdf plugins/ pluginlib.dll plugintypes.xpt the install.rdf file contains an install manifest that describes the plugin to the user.
...And 3 more matches

Localizing extension descriptions
this article provides details on how to go about localizing the descriptions of mozilla add-ons, as well as for other metadata about your add-on.
... this article provides details on how to go about localizing the descriptions of mozilla add-ons, as well as for other metadata about your add-on.
... this article provides details on how to go about localizing the descriptions of mozilla add-ons, as well as for other metadata about your add-on.
...And 3 more matches

Fonts for Mozilla 2.0's MathML engine
note: these instructions are for gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) until gecko 30.0 (firefox 30.0 / thunderbird 30.0 / seamonkey 2.27).
...) and higher versions, stix fonts are already installed and can be used for mathml.
...re not available on the system then mozilla tries to stretch symbols using scale transforms, but that may result in a less pleasant rendering.
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mozIStorageStatement
storage/public/mozistoragestatement.idlscriptable this interface lets you create and execute sql statements on a mozistorageconnection.
...lets you create and execute sql statements on a mozistorageconnection.
....
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nsIBlocklistService
xpcom/system/nsiblocklistservice.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... xpcom/system/nsiblocklistservice.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... application is used.
...And 3 more matches

nsIChannelEventSink
netwerk/base/public/nsichanneleventsink.idlscriptable implement this interface to gain control over various channel events, such as redirects.
... netwerk/base/public/nsichanneleventsink.idlscriptable implement this interface to gain control over various channel events, such as redirects.
... events, such as redirects.
...And 3 more matches

nsIConsoleService
xpcom/base/nsiconsoleservice.idlscriptable the console service is the back-end for the error console, bundled with every mozilla application, and for firefox's web console and browser console.
...9 (firefox 19 / thunderbird 19 / seamonkey 2.16) implemented by: @mozilla.org/consoleservice;1 as a service: var consoleservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/consoleservice;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiconsoleservice); method overview void getmessagearray([array, size_is(count)] out nsiconsolemessage messages, out uint32_t count);obsolete since gecko 19 void getmessagearray([optional] out uint32_t count, [retval, array, size_is(count)] out nsiconsolemessage messages); void logmessage(in nsiconsolemessage message); void logstringmessage(in wstring message); void registerlistener(in nsiconsolelistener listener); void reset(); void unregisterlistener(in nsiconsolelistener listener); method...
...(count)] out nsiconsolemessage messages); void logmessage(in nsiconsolemessage message); void logstringmessage(in wstring message); void registerlistener(in nsiconsolelistener listener); void reset(); void unregisterlistener(in nsiconsolelistener listener); methods getmessagearray() to obtain an array of all logged messages.
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nsIContentPrefService
use the asynchronous interface nsicontentprefservice2 instead.
...er ); parameters aname the name of the preference to observe.
...sult may be null (nsidatatype:vtype_empty) if the preference's value is either null, or undefined (nsidatatype:vtype_void) if there is no saved preference by the specified name.
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nsIDNSService
netwerk/dns/nsidnsservice.idlscriptable provides domain name resolution service.
...ble provides domain name resolution service.
...d to reduce lengthy timeouts when attempting backup connections during attempts to connect from clients that have broken ipv6 connectivity.
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nsIDOMEvent
dom/interfaces/events/nsidomevent.idlscriptable this interface is the primary data type for all events in the document object model.
... dom/interfaces/events/nsidomevent.idlscriptable this interface is the primary data type for all events in the document object model.
... dom/interfaces/events/nsidomevent.idlscriptable this interface is the primary data type for all events in the document object model.
...And 3 more matches

nsIDOMProgressEvent
dom/interfaces/events/nsidomprogressevent.idlscriptable this interface represents the events sent with progress information while uploading data using the xmlhttprequest object.
... dom/interfaces/events/nsidomprogressevent.idlscriptable this interface represents the events sent with progress information while uploading data using the xmlhttprequest object.
... dom/interfaces/events/nsidomprogressevent.idlscriptable this interface represents the events sent with progress information while uploading data using the xmlhttprequest object.
...And 3 more matches

nsIDownloadProgressListener
/toolkit/components/downloads/nsidownloadprogresslistener.idlscriptable this interface gives applications and extensions a way to monitor the status of downloads being processed by the download manager.
...rtant to note that there is no service for this listener.
...equest arequest, in unsigned long astate, in nsidownload adownload); void onstatechange(in nsiwebprogress awebprogress, in nsirequest arequest, in unsigned long astateflags, in nsresult astatus, in nsidownload adownload); void onstatuschange(in nsiwebprogress awebprogress, in nsirequest arequest, in nsresult astatus, in wstring amessage, in nsidownload adownload); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 attributes attribute type description document nsidomdocument document the document of the download manager frontend.
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nsIDragService
widget/nsidragservice.idlscriptable implements the drag service for handling drag and drop operations.
...transfer drag and drop api instead.
...being dragged.
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nsIEditor
« xpcom api reference editor/nsieditor.idlscriptable provides methods and attributes used when editing page content.
... « xpcom api reference editor/nsieditor.idlscriptable provides methods and attributes used when editing page content.
... are in upper case // application/xhtml+xml format do the same editorapi.outputtostring('text/xml', 2); // the body is not recognized, everything is printed void outputtostream(in nsioutputstream astream, in astring formattype, in acstring charsetoverride, in unsigned long flags); listener methods void addeditorobserver(in nsieditorobserver observer);obsolete since gecko 18 void seteditorobserver(in editactionlistener observer); void removeeditorobserver(in nsieditorobserver observer obsolete since gecko 18); void addeditactionlistener(in nsieditactionlistener listener); void removeeditactionlistener(in nsieditactionlistener listener); void adddocumentstatelistener(in nsidocumentstatelistener listener); void r...
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nsIMarkupDocumentViewer
docshell/base/nsimarkupdocumentviewer.idlscriptable describes the properties of a content viewer for an html or xml markup document.
...r xml markup document.
...ins boolean if true, plugins are allowed within the doc shell.
...And 3 more matches

nsIMemory
xpcom/base/nsimemory.idlscriptable this interface represents a generic memory allocator.
...egments from a heap.
... parameters immediate if true, heap minimization will occur immediately if the call was made on the main thread.
...And 3 more matches

nsIMemoryReporter
xpcom/base/nsimemoryreporter.idlscriptable reports memory usage information for a single area of the software.
... xpcom/base/nsimemoryreporter.idlscriptable reports memory usage information for a single area of the software.
...s().
...And 3 more matches

nsINavHistoryResultViewer
toolkit/components/places/public/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable lets nsinavhistoryresult instances notify places views of changes in the results.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable lets nsinavhistoryresult instances notify places views of changes in the results.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable lets nsinavhistoryresult instances notify places views of changes in the results.
...And 3 more matches

nsIPlacesImportExportService
toolkit/components/places/nsiplacesimportexportservice.idlscriptable provides methods for exporting places data.
... toolkit/components/places/nsiplacesimportexportservice.idlscriptable provides methods for exporting places data.
...var placesimportexportservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/import-export-service;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiplacesimportexportservice); method overview void backupbookmarksfile(); void exporthtmltofile(in nsilocalfile afile); void importhtmlfromfile(in nsilocalfile afile, in boolean aisinitialimport); obsolete since gecko 14.0 void importhtmlfromfiletofolder(in nsilocalfile afile, in print64 afolder, in boolean aisinitialimport); obsolete since gecko 14.0 void importhtmlfromuri(in nsiuri auri, in boolean aisinitialimport); obsolete since gecko 14.0 methods backupbookmarksfile() backs up the bookmarks.html file.
...And 3 more matches

nsIPrincipal
caps/nsiprincipal.idlscriptable provides the interface to a principal, which represents a security context.
...attribute type description certificate nsisupports the certificate associated with this principal, if any.
... certificateid string the fingerprint id of this principal's certificate.
...And 3 more matches

nsIProfile
profile/public/nsiprofile.idlunknown the profile manager is responsible for creating, maintaining, and organizing user profiles.
... profile/public/nsiprofile.idlunknown the profile manager is responsible for creating, maintaining, and organizing user profiles.
... profile/public/nsiprofile.idlunknown the profile manager is responsible for creating, maintaining, and organizing user profiles.
...And 3 more matches

nsISocketTransportService
netwerk/base/public/nsisockettransportservice.idlscriptable this interface provides a mapping between a socket type and its associated socket provider instance.
...vice;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsisockettransportservice); method overview void attachsocket(in prfiledescptr afd, in nsasockethandlerptr ahandler); native code only!
...attachsocket(in prfiledescptr afd, in nsasockethandlerptr ahandler); native code only!
...And 3 more matches

nsIWinAppHelper
toolkit/xre/nsiwinapphelper.idlscriptable used on windows only to do some work from a special process that gets created with elevated privileges.
... toolkit/xre/nsiwinapphelper.idlscriptable used on windows only to do some work from a special process that gets created with elevated privileges.
...o 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1.
...And 3 more matches

Working with the History API - Web APIs
might attempt to load the url later, for instance after the user restarts the browser.
...r restarts the browser.
...urrent url.
...And 3 more matches

Configuring servers for Ogg media - HTTP
bout possible media file types and the codecs used within them in our comprehensive guide to media types and formats on the web.
...nd formats on the web.
... page is loaded, under the assumption that the user will play it.
...And 3 more matches

HTTP Index - HTTP
ve.
... 191 user-agent http, http header, reference, user-agent the user-agent request header contains a characteristic string that allows the network protocol peers to identify the application type, operating system, software vendor or software version of the requesting software user agent.
...ristic string that allows the network protocol peers to identify the application type, operating system, software vendor or software version of the requesting software user agent.
...And 3 more matches

Authoring MathML - MathML
box; div.innerhtml = "<math><mspace height='23px' width='77px'/></math>"; document.body.appendchild(div); box = div.firstchild.firstchild.getboundingclientrect(); document.body.removechild(div); return math.abs(box.height - 23) <= 1 && math.abs(box.width - 77) <= 1; } alternatively, the following ua string sniffing will allow to detect the rendering engines with native mathml support (gecko and webkit).
...entrect(); document.body.removechild(div); return math.abs(box.height - 23) <= 1 && math.abs(box.width - 77) <= 1; } alternatively, the following ua string sniffing will allow to detect the rendering engines with native mathml support (gecko and webkit).
...t.body.removechild(div); return math.abs(box.height - 23) <= 1 && math.abs(box.width - 77) <= 1; } alternatively, the following ua string sniffing will allow to detect the rendering engines with native mathml support (gecko and webkit).
...And 3 more matches

Extension Versioning, Update and Compatibility - Archive of obsolete content
ion.
...duce the effect you want.
...ith a hash to verify the file retrieved.
...And 2 more matches

Introducing the Audio API extension - Archive of obsolete content
the audio data api extension extends the html5 specification of the <audio> and <video> media elements by exposing audio metadata and raw audio data.
...a and raw audio data.
...andards.
...And 2 more matches

Styling a Tree - Archive of obsolete content
et the properties based on values in the datasource.
...rior to gecko 22 the last argument to each of these functions is a properties list which the view is expected to fill with a list of properties.
...: function(row,column){ return ''} let's look at an example of changing a specific cell.
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2006-12-01 - Archive of obsolete content
tael calls for help getting the next update ff 1.5.x and 2.x.
...and 2.x.
...asap and since check approval will be granted daily that they be ready to check their patches in as soon as they are approved.
...And 2 more matches

Fixing Table Inheritance in Quirks Mode - Archive of obsolete content
summary: when in quirks mode, gecko-based browsers will appear to ignore inheritance of font styles into tables from parent elements.
...quirks mode.
...s such as body.
...And 2 more matches

Properly configuring server MIME types - Learn web development
it has not been significantly updated in many years.
...ing the correct mime type can also be important for security reasons; it's possible for malicious content to affect the user's computer by pretending to be a safe type of document when it is in fact not.
...s loaded css files even if they had the wrong mime type, as long as the html document that requested them was being processed in quirks mode.
...And 2 more matches

Multiprocess on Windows
t, readers of this document should have a solid understanding of what apartments are.
...id understanding of what apartments are.
...tunately this topic is often poorly explained.
...And 2 more matches

Creating a Firefox sidebar
wide range of extensions available, and some of them provide a sidebar.
...ompletely integrated with the browser.
...nsion with a sidebar.obsolete since gecko 57 you can also build a restartless extension yourself without the sdk.
...And 2 more matches

Debugging Frame Reflow
s displayed : reflow metric (desired) width, height max.
...bleouter rowg tablerowgroup row tablerow textctl textinput text text vp viewport once the problem is reduced to a single frame level, placing a breakpoint at displayreflowenterprint in nsframe.cpp is a very efficient way to step through the reflow tree.
...ow tablerow textctl textinput text text vp viewport once the problem is reduced to a single frame level, placing a breakpoint at displayreflowenterprint in nsframe.cpp is a very efficient way to step through the reflow tree.
...And 2 more matches

NetUtil.jsm
gth); netutil.asynccopy(istream, ostream, function(aresult) { if (!components.issuccesscode(aresult)) { // an error occurred!
...the asyncfetch() method opens an input source, asynchronously, and gives an nsiinputstream containing the data obtained to the callback provided.
...ta.
...And 2 more matches

Getting SpiderMonkey source code
including windows, as long as on windows you are using the mozillabuild bash shell.
...ou have problems with the instructions above, you can read the full details of using mercurial to get mozilla code here.
...eral bundles, which can be useful if you have a poor network connection.
...And 2 more matches

XPCOM glue
ymbols but can tolerate a load-time dependency on xpcom.dll should link against xpcomglue_s.lib and xpcom.lib.
...pcomglue_s.lib and xpcom.lib.
...code which wishes to use only frozen symbols and cannot tolerate a load-time dependency on xpcom.dll should #define xpcom_glue 1 while compiling, and link against xpcomglue.lib.
...And 2 more matches

XPCOM array guide
y using unsigned indices.
...s created, it takes a snapshot of the elements in the array, so that the enumerator can outlive the array.
... so that the enumerator can outlive the array.
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Resources
« previous this last section of the book provides a list of resources referred to in the tutorial and other links that may be useful to the gecko developer.
... « previous this last section of the book provides a list of resources referred to in the tutorial and other links that may be useful to the gecko developer.
... this last section of the book provides a list of resources referred to in the tutorial and other links that may be useful to the gecko developer.
...And 2 more matches

Components.utils
seful xpconnect features.
...ect's compartment.
...d aren't cross-compartment wrappers.
...And 2 more matches

mozIJSSubScriptLoader
js/xpconnect/idl/mozijssubscriptloader.idlscriptable this interface can be used from privileged javascript to load and run javascript code from the given url at runtime.
... js/xpconnect/idl/mozijssubscriptloader.idlscriptable this interface can be used from privileged javascript to load and run javascript code from the given url at runtime.
...ubscriptloader); note: see components.utils.import for another way to import javascript code.
...And 2 more matches

mozIStorageConnection
storage/public/mozistorageconnection.idlscriptable this interface represents a database connection attached to a specific file or an in-memory database.
...torage/public/mozistorageconnection.idlscriptable this interface represents a database connection attached to a specific file or an in-memory database.
..., in string atableschema); mozistoragependingstatement executeasync([array, size_is(anumstatements)] in mozistoragebasestatement astatements, in unsigned long anumstatements, [optional] in mozistoragestatementcallback acallback ); void executesimplesql(in autf8string asqlstatement); boolean indexexists(in autf8string aindexname); void preload(); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void removefunction(in autf8string afunctionname); mozistorageprogresshandler removeprogresshandler(); void rollbacktransaction(); void setgrowthincrement(in print32 aincrement, in autf8string adatabasename); mozistorageprogresshandler setprogresshandler(in print32 agranularity, in mozistorageprogresshandler ahandler); boolean tableexi...
...And 2 more matches

nsIAccessibleEvent
accessible/public/nsiaccessibleevent.idlscriptable an interface for accessibility events listened to by in-process accessibility clients, which can be used to find out how to get accessibility and dom interfaces for the event and its target.
...de associated with the event.
...ertext object to another, or focus moved from a non-hypertext object to a hypertext object, or focus moved from a hypertext object to a non-hypertext object.
...And 2 more matches

nsIBoxObject
layout/xul/base/public/nsiboxobject.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... layout/xul/base/public/nsiboxobject.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... nsisupports value); attributes attribute type description element nsidomelement read only.
...And 2 more matches

nsIClassInfo
xpcom/components/nsiclassinfo.idlscriptable provides information about a specific implementation class.
...t set, then the value of this attribute specifies a contractid through which this class may be accessed as a service using nsiservicemanager.getservicebycontractid().
...ed 1 << 31 the high order bit is reserved for consumers of these flags.
...And 2 more matches

nsIComponentManager
xpcom/components/nsicomponentmanager.idlscriptable this interface provides methods to access factory objects and instantiate instances of classes.
... xpcom/components/nsicomponentmanager.idlscriptable this interface provides methods to access factory objects and instantiate instances of classes.
... void removebootstrappedmanifestlocation(in nsilocalfile alocation); methods addbootstrappedmanifestlocation() loads a "bootstrapped" chrome.manifest file from the specified directory or xpi file.
...And 2 more matches

nsIDOMGeoPositionAddress
dom/interfaces/geolocation/nsidomgeopositionaddress.idlscriptable this interface describes the geographical address of a location, including street, city, and country information, for example.
... dom/interfaces/geolocation/nsidomgeopositionaddress.idlscriptable this interface describes the geographical address of a location, including street, city, and country information, for example.
...ion/nsidomgeopositionaddress.idlscriptable this interface describes the geographical address of a location, including street, city, and country information, for example.
...And 2 more matches

nsIDOMWindowInternal
dom/interfaces/base/nsidomwindowinternal.idlscriptable this interface is part of a chain of interfaces used to represent a window in the dom.
... dom/interfaces/base/nsidomwindowinternal.idlscriptable this interface is part of a chain of interfaces used to represent a window in the dom.
... dom/interfaces/base/nsidomwindowinternal.idlscriptable this interface is part of a chain of interfaces used to represent a window in the dom.
...And 2 more matches

getFile
caller whether or not the returned location is persistent.
...'s new gatekeeper v2 rules; without this change, firefox would not work on any mac os x newer than 10.9.4.
...locations some symbolic names represent platform-specific locations.
...And 2 more matches

nsIEditorSpellCheck
editor/idl/nsieditorspellcheck.idlnot scriptable provides spell checking commands for nsieditor instances.
... wstring getsuggestedword(); void ignorewordalloccurrences(in wstring word); void initspellchecker(in nsieditor editor, in boolean enableselectionchecking); void removewordfromdictionary(in wstring word); void replaceword(in wstring misspelledword, in wstring replaceword, in boolean alloccurrences); void savedefaultdictionary(); obsolete since gecko 9.0 void setcurrentdictionary(in astring dictionary); void setfilter(in nsitextservicesfilter filter); void uninitspellchecker(); void updatecurrentdictionary(); methods addwordtodictionary() adds the specified word to the current personal dictionary.
...in wstring misspelledword, in wstring replaceword, in boolean alloccurrences ); parameters misspelledword the word to replace.
...And 2 more matches

nsIFactory
xpcom/components/nsifactory.idlscriptable this interface is a class factory that allows for the creation of nsisupports derived classes without specifying a concrete class type.
...mponent which is being currently created.
...currently created.
...And 2 more matches

nsIHttpChannel
netwerk/protocol/http/nsihttpchannel.idlscriptable this interface allows for the modification of http request parameters and the inspection of the resulting http response status and headers when they become available.
...d visitoriginalresponseheaders( in nsihttpheadervisitor avisitor ); parameters avisitor an nsihttpheadervisitor instance allowing to visit all original response headers.
...ameters avisitor an nsihttpheadervisitor instance allowing to visit all original response headers.
...And 2 more matches

nsIIOService
netwerk/base/public/nsiioservice.idlscriptable this interface provides a set of url parsing utility functions.
...es.nsiioservice); method overview boolean allowport(in long aport, in string ascheme); acstring extractscheme(in autf8string urlstring); unsigned long getprotocolflags(in string ascheme); nsiprotocolhandler getprotocolhandler(in string ascheme); nsichannel newchannel(in autf8string aspec, in string aorigincharset, in nsiuri abaseuri); obsolete since gecko 48 nsichannel newchannel2(in autf8string aspec, in string aorigincharset, in nsiuri abaseuri, in nsidomnode aloadingnode, in nsiprincipal aloadingprincipal, in nsiprincipal atriggeringprincipal, in uint32_t asecurityflags, in uint32_t acontentpolicytype); nsichannel newchannelfromuri(in nsiuri auri); obsolete since gecko 48 nsichannel newchannelfromuri2(in nsiuri auri,...
...s.
...And 2 more matches

nsINavHistoryResultNode
toolkit/components/places/public/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable this is the base class for all places history result nodes, containing the uri, title, and other general information.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable this is the base class for all places history result nodes, containing the uri, title, and other general information.
...or the page.
...And 2 more matches

nsINavHistoryService
toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides complex query functions, more fine-grained getters and setters.
... toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides complex query functions, more fine-grained getters and setters.
...e(in nsiuri auri); void markpageasfollowedbookmark(in nsiuri auri); void markpageasfollowedlink(in nsiuri auri); void markpageastyped(in nsiuri auri); boolean canadduri(in nsiuri auri); long long addvisit(in nsiuri auri, in prtime atime, in nsiuri areferringuri, in long atransitiontype, in boolean aisredirect, in long long asessionid); obsolete since gecko 22.0 nsinavhistoryquery getnewquery(); nsinavhistoryqueryoptions getnewqueryoptions(); nsinavhistoryresult executequery(in nsinavhistoryquery aquery, in nsinavhistoryqueryoptions options); nsinavhistoryresult executequeries([array,size_is(aquerycount)] in nsinavhistoryquery aqueries, in unsigned long aquerycount, in nsinavhistoryqueryoptions options); ...
...And 2 more matches

nsIParserUtils
parser/html/nsiparserutils.idlscriptable provides non-web html parsing functionality to firefox extensions and xulrunner applications.
... parser/html/nsiparserutils.idlscriptable provides non-web html parsing functionality to firefox extensions and xulrunner applications.
... parser/html/nsiparserutils.idlscriptable provides non-web html parsing functionality to firefox extensions and xulrunner applications.
...And 2 more matches

nsIProcess2
xpcom/threads/nsiprocess.idlscriptable this interface represents an executable process.
... xpcom/threads/nsiprocess.idlscriptable this interface represents an executable process.
... xpcom/threads/nsiprocess.idlscriptable this interface represents an executable process.
...And 2 more matches

nsIProxyInfo
this interface identifies a proxy server.
...y.
...d only.
...And 2 more matches

nsIScreen
widget/nsiscreen.idlscriptable this interface provides information about a display screen.
...mber of bits used to represent a color.
...a color.
...And 2 more matches

nsIScriptError2
js/src/xpconnect/idl/nsiscripterror.idlscriptable represents javascript errors and warnings for use by the console service; augments nsiscripterror by adding a way to initialize the error with the window id of the outer window with which the error is associated.
... js/src/xpconnect/idl/nsiscripterror.idlscriptable represents javascript errors and warnings for use by the console service; augments nsiscripterror by adding a way to initialize the error with the window id of the outer window with which the error is associated.
... js/src/xpconnect/idl/nsiscripterror.idlscriptable represents javascript errors and warnings for use by the console service; augments nsiscripterror by adding a way to initialize the error with the window id of the outer window with which the error is associated.
...And 2 more matches

nsIURLParser
netwerk/base/public/nsiurlparser.idlscriptable specifies the interface to an url parser that attempts to follow the definitions of rfc 2396.
... directorylen basenamepos basenamelen extensionpos extensionlen parsepath() breaks the path string up into its 4 major components: a file path, a param string, a query string, and a reference string.
...nsionpos extensionlen parsepath() breaks the path string up into its 4 major components: a file path, a param string, a query string, and a reference string.
...And 2 more matches

nsIWebContentHandlerRegistrar
xpfe/appshell/public/nsiwebcontenthandlerregistrar.idlscriptable applications wishing to use web content handlers need to implement this interface.
...r_dom_syntax_err will be thrown.
...m/secure/start?action=compose&to=%s as a content or protocol handler'permission denied to add http://mail.live.com/secure/start?action=compose&to=%s as a content or protocol handler' when calling method: [nsiwebcontenthandlerregistrar::registerprotocolhandler] if the host names do match then a confirmation like this will be seen: this domain check can be bypassed by setting the preference of gecko.handlerservice.allowregisterfromdifferenthost to true as in this code here: var {classes: cc, interfaces: ci, utils: cu} = components; cu.import("resource://gre/modules/services.jsm"); var nsiwchr = cc["@mozilla.org/embeddor.implemented/web-content-handler-registrar;1"] .getservice(ci.nsiwebcontenthandlerregistrar); var allowregisterfromdifferenthost = services.prefs.getboolpref...
...And 2 more matches

WebIDL bindings
notes: need to document the setup for indexed and named setters/creators/deleters.
...via web idl.
...s engine data structures, and is guaranteed to not change unless some function with [affects=everything] is executed.
...And 2 more matches

Debugger-API - Firefox Developer Tools
looked into the language’s implementation.
...pt exceptions.
... do so without worrying about interfering with other tools that use their own debugger instances.
...And 2 more matches

Call Tree - Firefox Developer Tools
ount: sortall() // 8 -> sort() // 37 -> bubblesort() // 1345 -> swap() // 252 -> selectionsort() // 190 -> swap() // 1 -> quicksort() // 103 -> partition() // 12 platform data you'll also see some rows labeled gecko, input & events, and so on.
... // 103 -> partition() // 12 platform data you'll also see some rows labeled gecko, input & events, and so on.
...ould be fairly obvious that the high platform data cost is coming from repeated calls to console.log(): function sort(unsorted) { console.log(bubblesort(unsorted)); console.log(selectionsort(unsorted)); console.log(quicksort(unsorted)); } it would certainly be worthwhile considering more efficient ways of implementing this.
...And 2 more matches

DataTransfer - Web APIs
.
...le on the data transfer.
...ta transfer contains no data.
...And 2 more matches

Navigator - Web APIs
n be used to query and update permission status of apis covered by the permissions api.
...nd user agent (mediadevices.getsupportedconstraints()), and to request access to media using mediadevices.getusermedia().
...navigatorid, navigatorcontentutils, navigatorusermedia, and navigatorstorageutils.
...And 2 more matches

WebSocket.send() - Web APIs
the byte size of that raw data.
...array object as a binary frame; its binary data contents are queued in the buffer, increasing the value of bufferedamount by the requisite number of bytes.
...t as a binary frame; its binary data contents are queued in the buffer, increasing the value of bufferedamount by the requisite number of bytes.
...And 2 more matches

Window.navigator - Web APIs
out the application running the script.
... may report false positives for unlisted browsers.
...) > -1) { sbrowser = "samsung internet"; // "mozilla/5.0 (linux; android 9; samsung sm-g955f build/ppr1.180610.011) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) samsungbrowser/9.4 chrome/67.0.3396.87 mobile safari/537.36 } else if (susrag.indexof("opera") > -1 || susrag.indexof("opr") > -1) { sbrowser = "opera"; // "mozilla/5.0 (macintosh; intel mac os x 10_14_0) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/70.0.3538.102 safari/537.36 opr/57.0.3098.106" } else if (susrag.indexof("trident") > -1) { sbrowser = "microsoft internet explorer"; // "mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 10.0; wow64; trident/7.0; .net4.0c; .net4.0e; zoom 3.6.0; wbx 1.0.0; rv:11.0) like gecko" } else if (susrag.indexof("edge") > -1) { sbrowser = "microsoft edge"; // "mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 10.0; win64; x64) applewebkit/53...
...And 2 more matches

Consistent list indentation - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
one of the most common style changes made to lists is a change in the indentation distance—that is, how far the list items are pushed over to the right.
...d this and get some indentation, there are really only three options available to browser implementors.
...sh, and opera.
...And 2 more matches

Audio and Video Delivery - Developer guides
video should play from the beginning through 10.5 seconds.
...inning through two hours.
...gh the end of the video.
...And 2 more matches

Touch events (Mozilla experimental) - Developer guides
warning: this experimental api was removed in gecko 18.0 (firefox 18.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15), when support for the standard touch events was implemented.
... warning: this experimental api was removed in gecko 18.0 (firefox 18.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15), when support for the standard touch events was implemented.
... warning: this experimental api was removed in gecko 18.0 (firefox 18.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15), when support for the standard touch events was implemented.
...And 2 more matches

Index - Developer guides
ts.
...pdate, needsupdate, events this overview of events and event handling explains the code design pattern used to react to incidents occurring when a browser accesses a web page, and it summarizes the types of such incidents modern web browsers can handle.
...d event handling explains the code design pattern used to react to incidents occurring when a browser accesses a web page, and it summarizes the types of such incidents modern web browsers can handle.
...And 2 more matches

Index - HTTP
uests csp directive.
...sp directive.
...ristic string that allows the network protocol peers to identify the application type, operating system, software vendor or software version of the requesting software user agent.
...And 2 more matches

Setting up an extension development environment - Archive of obsolete content
, windows instructions.) you'll see the list of available user profiles one which is default (stable) and other (unstable) profile(s) created automatically when you run other versions of firefox earlier.
...te problems to the error console.
...eptions = true.
...n's chrome in a jar or in directories, developing in directories is simpler.

Tabbed browser - Archive of obsolete content
ampletabadded, false); container.addeventlistener("tabmove", exampletabmoved, false); container.addeventlistener("tabclose", exampletabremoved, false); // when no longer needed container.removeeventlistener("tabopen", exampletabadded, false); container.removeeventlistener("tabmove", exampletabmoved, false); container.removeeventlistener("tabclose", exampletabremoved, false); note: starting in gecko 1.9.1, there's an easy way to listen on progress events on all tabs.
...ved, false); // when no longer needed container.removeeventlistener("tabopen", exampletabadded, false); container.removeeventlistener("tabmove", exampletabmoved, false); container.removeeventlistener("tabclose", exampletabremoved, false); note: starting in gecko 1.9.1, there's an easy way to listen on progress events on all tabs.
..."tabopen", exampletabadded, false); container.removeeventlistener("tabmove", exampletabmoved, false); container.removeeventlistener("tabclose", exampletabremoved, false); note: starting in gecko 1.9.1, there's an easy way to listen on progress events on all tabs.
...ent) { var tab = event.target; // now you can check what's changed on the tab } // during initialization var container = gbrowser.tabcontainer; container.addeventlistener("tabattrmodified", exampletabattrmodified, false); // when no longer needed container.removeeventlistener("tabattrmodified", exampletabattrmodified, false); notification when a tab is pinned or unpinned requires gecko 2.0(firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) starting in gecko 2.0, tabs can be "pinned"; that is, they become special application tabs ("app tabs"), which are pinned to the beginning of the tab bar, and show only the favicon.

Index of archived content - Archive of obsolete content
repackaging firefox style system overview using microformats firefox sync code snippets javascript client api syncing custom preferences force rtl gre gre registration gecko coding help wanted http class overview hacking wiki help viewer creating a help content pack helper apps (and a bit of save as) hidden prefs how to write and land nanojit patches io guide/directory keys introducing the audio api extension isp data ...
... winreg object methods winregvalue xpjs components proposal xre xtech 2005 presentations directions of the mozilla rdf engine extending gecko with xbl and xtf mozilla e4x rich web svg and canvas in mozilla xul - mozilla's xml user interface language xtech 2006 presentations xul explorer xulrunner application update article ...
... tutorials creating reusable content with css and xbl underscores in class and id names xml data xul user interfaces case sensitivity in class and id names creating a dynamic status bar extension creating a status bar extension element title gecko compatibility handbook getting the page url in npapi plugin index index of archived content inner-browsing extending the browser navigation paradigm install.js jxon list of former mozilla-based applications list of mozilla-based applications localizing an extension mmgc makefile - .mk files m...
...an extension mmgc makefile - .mk files misc top level bypassing security restrictions and signing code creating a web based tone generator defining cross-browser tooltips environment variables affecting crash reporting io guide images, tables, and mysterious gaps installing plugins to gecko embedding browsers on windows mcd, mission control desktop, aka autoconfig monitoring wifi access points no proxy for configuration notes on html reflow same-origin policy for file: uris source navigator source code directories overview using xml data islands in mozilla using content preferences vi...

Structure of an installable bundle - Archive of obsolete content
*.xml mozsearch and opensearch plugins firefox 2 and greater /dictionaries/*.{aff|dic} myspell dictionaries firefox 2 and greater of course, an extension need not (and normally won't) have all of these directories.
...onent components/windows/mycomponent.dll abi=winnt_x86-msvc binary-component components/mac/mycomponent.dylib abi=darwin_x86-gcc3 binary-component components/mac/mycomponent64.dylib abi=darwin_x86_64-gcc3 binary-component components/linux/mycomponent.so abi=linux_x86-gcc3 this also means you can no longer have platform-specific preference files in your bundle.
...mac/mycomponent.dylib abi=darwin_x86-gcc3 binary-component components/mac/mycomponent64.dylib abi=darwin_x86_64-gcc3 binary-component components/linux/mycomponent.so abi=linux_x86-gcc3 this also means you can no longer have platform-specific preference files in your bundle.
...ic files to learn how to use platform-specific files.

jspage - Archive of obsolete content
yselector)},plugins:{},engines:{presto:function(){return(!window.opera)?false:((arguments.callee.caller)?960:((document.getelementsbyclassname)?950:925)); },trident:function(){return(!window.activexobject)?false:((window.xmlhttprequest)?((document.queryselectorall)?6:5):4);},webkit:function(){return(navigator.taintenabled)?false:((browser.features.xpath)?((browser.features.query)?525:420):419); },gecko:function(){return(!document.getboxobjectfor&&window.mozinnerscreenx==null)?false:((document.getelementsbyclassname)?19:18);}}},browser||{});browser.platform[browser.platform.name]=true; browser.detect=function(){for(var b in this.engines){var a=this.engines[b]();if(a){this.engine={name:b,version:a};this.engine[b]=this.engine[b+a]=true; break;}}return{name:b,version:a};};browser.detect();browser.r...
...offset:a.clienty}; if(j.match(/dommousescroll|mousewheel/)){var h=(a.wheeldelta)?a.wheeldelta/120:-(a.detail||0)/3;}var e=(a.which==3)||(a.button==2);var l=null;if(j.match(/over|out/)){switch(j){case"mouseover":l=a.relatedtarget||a.fromelement; break;case"mouseout":l=a.relatedtarget||a.toelement;}if(!(function(){while(l&&l.nodetype==3){l=l.parentnode;}return true;}).create({attempt:browser.engine.gecko})()){l=false; }}}}return $extend(this,{event:a,type:j,page:i,client:c,rightclick:e,wheel:h,relatedtarget:l,target:g,code:b,key:m,shift:a.shiftkey,control:a.ctrlkey,alt:a.altkey,meta:a.metakey}); }});event.keys=new hash({enter:13,up:38,down:40,left:37,right:39,esc:27,space:32,backspace:8,tab:9,"delete":46});event.implement({stop:function(){return this.stoppropagation().preventdefault(); },stopprop...
...e:1,domcontentloaded:1,readystatechange:1,error:1,abort:1,scroll:1}; (function(){var a=function(b){var c=b.relatedtarget;if(c==undefined){return true;}if(c===false){return false;}return($type(this)!="document"&&c!=this&&c.prefix!="xul"&&!this.haschild(c)); };element.events=new hash({mouseenter:{base:"mouseover",condition:a},mouseleave:{base:"mouseout",condition:a},mousewheel:{base:(browser.engine.gecko)?"dommousescroll":"mousewheel"}}); })();element.properties.styles={set:function(a){this.setstyles(a);}};element.properties.opacity={set:function(a,b){if(!b){if(a==0){if(this.style.visibility!="hidden"){this.style.visibility="hidden"; }}else{if(this.style.visibility!="visible"){this.style.visibility="visible";}}}if(!this.currentstyle||!this.currentstyle.haslayout){this.style.zoom=1;}if(browser.eng...
...ect){var j=this.getboundingclientrect(),m=document.id(this.getdocument().documentelement),p=m.getscroll(),k=this.getscrolls(),i=this.getscroll(),h=(d(this,"position")=="fixed"); return{x:j.left.toint()+k.x-i.x+((h)?0:p.x)-m.clientleft,y:j.top.toint()+k.y-i.y+((h)?0:p.y)-m.clienttop};}var l=this,n={x:0,y:0};if(b(this)){return n; }while(l&&!b(l)){n.x+=l.offsetleft;n.y+=l.offsettop;if(browser.engine.gecko){if(!f(l)){n.x+=c(l);n.y+=g(l);}var o=l.parentnode;if(o&&d(o,"overflow")!="visible"){n.x+=c(o); n.y+=g(o);}}else{if(l!=this&&browser.engine.webkit){n.x+=c(l);n.y+=g(l);}}l=l.offsetparent;}if(browser.engine.gecko&&!f(this)){n.x-=c(this);n.y-=g(this); }return n;},getposition:function(k){if(b(this)){return{x:0,y:0};}var l=this.getoffsets(),i=this.getscrolls();var h={x:l.x-i.x,y:l.y-i.y};var j=(k&&(k...

Reading textual data - Archive of obsolete content
this article describes how to read textual data from streams, files and sockets.
...u read data from nsiscriptableinputstream as described on the file i/o code snippets page, you can convert it to utf-8 // sstream is nsiscriptableinputstream var str = sstream.read(4096); var utf8converter = components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/utf8converterservice;1"].
...ed on the file i/o code snippets page, you can convert it to utf-8 // sstream is nsiscriptableinputstream var str = sstream.read(4096); var utf8converter = components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/utf8converterservice;1"].
...utstream); if (is instanceof components.interfaces.nsiunicharlineinputstream) { var line = {}; var cont; do { cont = is.readline(line); // now you can do something with line.value } while (cont); } the above example reads an entire stream until eof.

The new nsString class implementation (1999) - Archive of obsolete content
erns.
...omatic conversion between strings with different character sizes inviolate base structure eliminates class fragility problem; safe across dll boundaries offers c-style function api to manipulate nsstrimpl offers simple memory allocator api for specialized memory policy shares binary format with bstring coming soon: a new xpcom (nsistring) interface non-templatized; this is a requirement for gecko very efficient buffer manipulation architecture the fundamental data type in the new architecture is struct nsstrimpl, given below: struct nsstrimpl { print32 mlength; void* mbuffer; print32 mcapacity; char mcharsize; char munused; // and now for the nsstrimpl api...
...r overhead.
...tely necessary.

searchSessions - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home searchsessions obsolete since gecko 26 type: space-separated list of session names set to a keyword indicating what type of data to look up for autocomplete.
...erence home searchsessions obsolete since gecko 26 type: space-separated list of session names set to a keyword indicating what type of data to look up for autocomplete.
...rated list of session names set to a keyword indicating what type of data to look up for autocomplete.
...ta to look up for autocomplete.

textbox.onblur - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home onblur type: script code this event is sent when a textbox loses keyboard focus.
... « xul reference home onblur type: script code this event is sent when a textbox loses keyboard focus.
... « xul reference home onblur type: script code this event is sent when a textbox loses keyboard focus.
...ver time.

textbox.onfocus - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home onfocus type: script code this event is sent when a textbox receives keyboard focus.
... « xul reference home onfocus type: script code this event is sent when a textbox receives keyboard focus.
... « xul reference home onfocus type: script code this event is sent when a textbox receives keyboard focus.
...ver time.

What XULRunner Provides - Archive of obsolete content
the goal of xulrunner is to provide a solution for deploying xul applications (primarily firefox and thunderbird), as well as providing an embedding mechanism.
... the goal of xulrunner is to provide a solution for deploying xul applications (primarily firefox and thunderbird), as well as providing an embedding mechanism.
...ng gecko rendering engine dom editing and transaction support (no ui) cryptography xbl (xbl2 planned) xul svg xslt xml extras (xmlhttprequest, domparser, etc.) web services (soap) auto-update support (not yet complete) type ahead find toolbar history implementation (the places implementation in the 1.9 cycle) accessibility support ipc services for communication between gecko-based apps (not yet complete) storage/sqlite interfaces user interface features the following user interface is supplied by xulrunner, and may be overridden by embedders under certain circumstances: apis and user interface for installing, uninstalling, and upgrading xul applications.
... extension manager file picker (uses native os filepicker as appropriate) find toolbar helper app dialog/ui security ui (maintenance of ssl keychains, etc) embedding apis the following embedding apis are provided by xulrunner: cross-platform embedding (xre_initembedding) javaxpcom embedding gtkmozembed (linux only) activex control (windows only) (not yet complete) obsolete since gecko 7.0 nsview-based-widget (mac os x only) (not yet complete) the "maybe" list the following features have been discussed and may be included if developer time permits and code size is controlled: ldap support spellchecking support (with or without dictionaries provided) see bug 285977 core support for profile roaming (with application-specific extensibility) pyxpcom embedding (not yet c...

2006-10-27 - Archive of obsolete content
announcements firefox 2.0 available firefox 2.0 is now available for download.
... announcements firefox 2.0 available firefox 2.0 is now available for download.
... is now available for download.
....

ECMAScript 5 support in Mozilla - Archive of obsolete content
5.1, an older version of the standard upon which javascript is based, was approved in june 2011.
...ng both firefox and thunderbird has full support for ecmascript 5.1 features.
...ascript runtime.
...son support object.getprototypeof() method.

background-size - Archive of obsolete content
should not the "browser compatibility" table also list google chrome and konqueror?
...me and konqueror?
... icab4, omniweb etc.
...nd all css property pages ; ) start with -webkit-background-size and investigate support of contain and cover keywords and "omitted second value" behavior.

The Business Benefits of Web Standards - Archive of obsolete content
cantly reduces rendering differences in various browsers.
...tools such as the w3c validator helps by spotting coding errors and making sure html code is well-formed, which eliminates ambiguity in parsing by browsers.
...tting coding errors and making sure html code is well-formed, which eliminates ambiguity in parsing by browsers.
...rnet explorer for windows, are used to surf the web: windows: msie, browsers using mozilla's gecko rendering engine, opera mac: ms-tasman (ie/mac's rendering engine), gecko-based browsers, safari, opera linux: gecko-based browsers, khtml-based browsers, opera overall, 5 different rendering engines are used to surf the web using dozens of browsers on 3 platforms.

Accessibility and Mozilla
imistic that jaws support will catch up this year.
...c world product of the year, firefox has attracted a huge following among savvy users who simply care enough about their web browsing experience to download a new piece of software.
...duct of the year, firefox has attracted a huge following among savvy users who simply care enough about their web browsing experience to download a new piece of software.
...lease check the accessibility help topic for more information.links and resourceshere are some useful links for those interested in web accessibility as well as open source accessibility.mozilla accessibility architecturethis page is maintained by aaron leventhal and by the mozilla accessibility community.

Adding a new CSS property
this page describes how to add a new css property to the style system.
... this page describes how to add a new css property to the style system.
...at the top of the file and the other entries for examples.
...onghand property, you also need to implement the computed style side of things.

Creating a spell check dictionary add-on
n version numbers, and if you update an existing dictionary add-on, the new version number must be greater than the old one.
...onary add-on, the new version number must be greater than the old one.
...ement.
...ionary.

Displaying Places information using views
heet that binds elements with the special type attribute to one of the views.
... of interface nsinavhistoryresultviewer, which is the point of interaction between a view and its results.
...ating the view's place attribute, causing it to fall out of sync with the view's query result.
... and earlier requires gecko 1.9.2(firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) create a built-in menu view by setting the type attribute to "places" on an empty menupopup element (which would be a child of some parent menu element): <menu> <menupopup type="places" /> </menu> the place attribute or property should be set on the menupopup as well.

Embedding Mozilla
gecko allows third-party developers to use the same technology as found in mozilla.
... gecko allows third-party developers to use the same technology as found in mozilla.
...lows third-party developers to use the same technology as found in mozilla.
...entation, some possible embedding scenarios that we need to deal with, and an embedding solution that will fulfil them.

How to implement a custom autocomplete search component
complete" that implements the necessary interfaces.
...her component derived from those same examples.
...ponent {x753d830-ba1e-11e0-962b-0800200c9a66} components/basic_autocomplete.js contract @mozilla.org/autocomplete/search;1?name=basic-autocomplete {x753d830-ba1e-11e0-962b-0800200c9a66} and finally use this newly available component in a xul file like this: <textbox id="text1" type="autocomplete" autocompletesearch="basic-autocomplete"/> that's it!
...s.interfaces.nsifactory)) throw components.results.ns_error_not_implemented; if (acid.equals(class_id)) return simpleautocompletesearchfactory; throw components.results.ns_error_no_interface; }, canunload: function(acompmgr) { return true; } }; // module initialization function nsgetmodule(acompmgr, afilespec) { return simpleautocompletesearchmodule; } starting in gecko 2.0, component registration has been changed, so you need to make the following changes: add an nsgetfactory() function: function nsgetfactory(cid) { if (cid.tostring().touppercase() != class_id.tostring().touppercase()) { throw components.results.ns_error_factory_not_registered; } return simpleautocompletesearchfactory; } you need to explicitly register ...

PBackground
pbackground is a mechanism available since gecko 30 (see bug 956218) that builds on top of ipdl to provide a solution to common problems that arise when handling multiple threads in the chrome process, for example communication between workers and multiple child processes and other parent-process worker threads.
...ocesses a lot of code "just works" in the content process.
... some things, such as apis that need to manipulate files or device settings (e.g.
...ice settings (e.g.

Using JavaScript code modules
javascript code modules are a concept introduced in gecko 1.9 and can be used for sharing code between different privileged scopes.
...; // displays "foo" scope 2: components.utils.import("resource://app/my_module.jsm"); alert(bar); // displays "[object object]" the main effect of the by-value copy is that global variables of simple types won't be shared across scopes.
...monkey 2.4) components.utils.unload() allows you to unload a previously imported code module.
... = components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsilocalfile); aliasfile.initwithpath("/some/absolute/path"); var aliasuri = services.io.newfileuri(aliasfile); resprot.setsubstitution("myalias", aliasuri); // assuming the code modules are in the alias folder itself notes custom modules and xpcom components note that prior to gecko 2.0 javascript xpcom components are loaded before chrome registration.

XPCOMUtils.jsm
n", interfaces: [components.interfaces.nsiobserver, components.interfaces.nsimyinterface, "nsifoo", "nsibar"], flags: ci.nsiclassinfo.singleton}), // ...component implementation...
...ided by the xpcomutils code module.
...mponents = [mycomponent]; here, we're calling the array components.
...tfactory() or nsgetmodule() entry point finally, you need to implement the nsgetmodule() entry point so gecko can start up your component: // "components" is the array created in the previous section if ("generatensgetfactory" in xpcomutils) var nsgetfactory = xpcomutils.generatensgetfactory(components); // gecko 2.0+ else var nsgetmodule = xpcomutils.generatensgetmodule(components); // gecko 1.9.x method overview function definelazygetter(aobject, aname, alambda); function definelazymodulegetter(aobject, aname, aresource, [optional] asymbol); function definelazyservicegetter(aobject, aname, acontract, ainterfacename); function generatensgetfactory(componentsarray); function generateci(classinfo); function generateqi(interfaces)...

TimerFirings logging
timerfirings logging is a feature built into gecko that prints a line of data for every timer fired.
... timerfirings logging is a feature built into gecko that prints a line of data for every timer fired.
...84[7f46c365ec00]: [6775] obs timer (slack 1000 ms): 7f46a95a0200 each line has the following information.
... (repeating timers of differing precision).

AT Development
introduction software accessibility: where are we today?
... introduction software accessibility: where are we today?
...t gecko-based applications like firefox, thunderbird and so on.
...omtypes gives access to msaa and iaccessible2.

Creating the Component Code
k user interface shows the icon that is used to activate the web lock mode (leftmost in the status bar) once you have installed the weblock component and the extra user interface.
... the xpcom interfaces the component needs to use, and hooking into existing functionality within the gecko browser.
...pe client, you copy your component into the components directory in the client's installation folder.
...hree main parts to every xpcom component.

Using XPCOM Utilities to Make Things Easier
« previousnext » this chapter goes back over the code you've already created in the first part of the tutorial (see weblock1.cpp in the previous chapter) and uses xpcom tools that make coding a lot easier and more efficient.
...d (cid) the contract id (an optional but recommended argument) a constructor for the given object static const nsmodulecomponentinfo components[] = { { "pretty class name", cid, contract_id, constructor }, // ...
... weblock1.cpp using the macros described in this chapter: weblock2.cpp #include "nsigenericfactory.h" #include "nsisupportsutils.h" #define sample_cid \ { 0x777f7150, 0x4a2b, 0x4301, \ { 0xad, 0x10, 0x5e, 0xab, 0x25, 0xb3, 0x22, 0xaa}} class sample: public nsisupports { public: sample(); virtual ~sample(); ns_decl_isupports }; sample::sample() { // note: in newer versions of gecko (1.3 or later) // you don't have to do this: ns_init_isupports(); } sample::~sample() { } ns_impl_isupports1(sample, nsisupports); ns_generic_factory_constructor(sample); static const nsmodulecomponentinfo components[] = { { "pretty class name", sample_cid, "@company.com/sample", sampleconstructor } }; ns_impl_nsgetmodule(nssamplemodule, components) string classes in xp...
...of 6 consecutive bytes, where `x' is at byte offset zero and a null character is at byte offset 5.

Creating XPCOM components
next » this guide is about gecko, and about creating xpcom components for gecko-based applications.
... next » this guide is about gecko, and about creating xpcom components for gecko-based applications.
...omponents.
... xul the xul document the locking ui site adding ui weblock.xul overlaying new user interface into mozilla weblockoverlay.xul other resources weblock.css image resources packaging weblock component installation overview archiving resources the weblock installation script the weblock trigger script distributing your component appendix a - setting up the gecko sdk downloading and setting the sdk building a microsoft visual cpp project creating a new project adding the gecko sdk to the project settings building a windows project a makefile for unix appendix b - resources weblock resources gecko resources xpcom resources general development resources next » copyright (c) 2003 by doug turner and ian oeschger.

XPCOM guide
ks in javascript xpcom componentsprogrammers writing and reviewing javascript code in mozilla should understand how code using xpcom in javascript can leak so that they can avoid leaks.
...iting and reviewing javascript code in mozilla should understand how code using xpcom in javascript can leak so that they can avoid leaks.
... start new services at appropriate times, for example.xpcom array guidemozilla has many array classes because each array is optimized for a particular usage pattern.
... array classes because each array is optimized for a particular usage pattern.

amIInstallTrigger
toolkit/mozapps/extensions/amiinstalltrigger.idlscriptable called when an install completes or fails.
... toolkit/mozapps/extensions/amiinstalltrigger.idlscriptable called when an install completes or fails.
...or fails.
... (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview boolean enabled(); boolean install(in nsivariant aargs, [optional] in amiinstallcallback acallback); boolean installchrome(in pruint32 atype, in astring aurl, in astring askin); deprecated since gecko 2.0 boolean startsoftwareupdate(in astring aurl, [optional] in print32 aflags); deprecated since gecko 2.0 boolean updateenabled(); deprecated since gecko 2.0 constants retained for backwards compatibility.

imgIEncoder
modules/libpr0n/public/imgiencoder.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... modules/libpr0n/public/imgiencoder.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...rits from: nsiasyncinputstream last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview void addimageframe( [array, size_is(length), const] in pruint8 data, in unsigned long length, in pruint32 width, in pruint32 height, in pruint32 stride, in pruint32 frameformat, in astring frameoptions); void encodeclipboardimage(in nsiclipboardimage aclipboardimage, out nsifile aimagefile); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void endimageencode(); void initfromdata([array, size_is(length), const] in pruint8 data, in unsigned long length, in pruint32 width, in pruint32 height, in pruint32 stride, in pruint32 inputformat, in astring outputoptions); void startimageencode(in pruint32 width, in pruint32 height, in pruint32 inputformat, in astring outputoptions); constants possible values for input format (...
... by inputformat.

mozIStorageFunction
hat must be implemented by consumers.
...nsivariant onfunctioncall( in mozistoragevaluearray afunctionarguments ); parameters afunctionarguments a mozistoragevaluearray holding the arguments passed in to the function.
...istorageconnection, like this: dbconn.createfunction("square", 1, function(aarguments) { let value = aarguments.getint32(0); return value * value; }); // run some query that uses the function.
...s.getint32(0); return value * value; }); // run some query that uses the function.

mozIStoragePendingStatement
the mozistoragependingstatement interface represents a pending asynchronous database statement, and offers the cancel() method which allows you to cancel the pending statement.
...underbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void cancel(); methods cancel() cancels the pending statement.
... fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void cancel(); methods cancel() cancels the pending statement.
...fails only if you attempt to cancel the operation more than once.

nsIAccessibleHyperText
accessible/public/nsiaccessiblehypertext.idlscriptable this interface is the main interface to expose hyperlinks in a document, typically a text document, that are used to reference other documents.
...hat are used to reference other documents.
...ecko 1.9 (firefox 3) method overview nsiaccessiblehyperlink getlink(in long linkindex); long getlinkindex(in long charindex); long getselectedlinkindex(); obsolete since gecko 1.9 attributes attribute type description linkcount long the number of links contained within this hypertext object.
...e given offset (character index).

nsIAccessibleRelation
accessible/public/nsiaccessiblerelation.idlscriptable this interface gives access to an accessibles set of relations.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessiblerelation.idlscriptable this interface gives access to an accessibles set of relations.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessiblerelation.idlscriptable this interface gives access to an accessibles set of relations.
... relation_embeds 0x0a this object embeds a target object.

nsIAccessibleText
accessible/public/nsiaccessibletext.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibletext.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... will be treated as the caret position.
... obsolete.

nsIDOMMouseScrollEvent
dom/interfaces/events/nsidommousescrollevent.idlscriptable this interface represents a mouse scroll wheel event.
... dom/interfaces/events/nsidommousescrollevent.idlscriptable this interface represents a mouse scroll wheel event.
... dom/interfaces/events/nsidommousescrollevent.idlscriptable this interface represents a mouse scroll wheel event.
... dom/interfaces/events/nsidommousescrollevent.idlscriptable this interface represents a mouse scroll wheel event.

nsIDOMStorageEventObsolete
obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) this feature is obsolete.
... still work in some browsers, its use is discouraged since it could be removed at any time.
...sers, its use is discouraged since it could be removed at any time.
...at any time.

nsIDOMStorageItem
dom/interfaces/storage/nsidomstorageitem.idlscriptable this interface represents an object in dom storage.
... dom/interfaces/storage/nsidomstorageitem.idlscriptable this interface represents an object in dom storage.
... dom/interfaces/storage/nsidomstorageitem.idlscriptable this interface represents an object in dom storage.
... dom/interfaces/storage/nsidomstorageitem.idlscriptable this interface represents an object in dom storage.

nsIDOMStorageWindow
dom/interfaces/storage/nsidomstoragewindow.idlscriptable this interface provides access to a dom window's client side storage objects.
... dom/interfaces/storage/nsidomstoragewindow.idlscriptable this interface provides access to a dom window's client side storage objects.
... dom/interfaces/storage/nsidomstoragewindow.idlscriptable this interface provides access to a dom window's client side storage objects.
... dom/interfaces/storage/nsidomstoragewindow.idlscriptable this interface provides access to a dom window's client side storage objects.

nsIDOMXULElement
dom/interfaces/xul/nsidomxulelement.idlscriptable represents a xul element within the dom.
... dom/interfaces/xul/nsidomxulelement.idlscriptable represents a xul element within the dom.
...domstring gets/sets the value of the element's persist attribute.
...h the given attribute that are not in a namespace.

nsIEventTarget
xpcom/threads/nsieventtarget.idlscriptable a target for events.
... xpcom/threads/nsieventtarget.idlscriptable a target for events.
...rder to support receiving events from other threads.
...ead() check to see if this event target is associated with the current thread.

nsIFocusManager
dom/interfaces/base/nsifocusmanager.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... dom/interfaces/base/nsifocusmanager.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
.../ seamonkey 2.2) implemented by: @mozilla.org/focus-manager;1 as a service: var focusmanager = components.classes["@mozilla.org/focus-manager;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsifocusmanager); method overview void clearfocus(in nsidomwindow awindow); void contentremoved(in nsidocument adocument, in nsicontent aelement); native code only!
...over them in caret browsing mode.

nsIGeolocationProvider
xpcom/system/nsigeolocationprovider.idlscriptable notify the geolocation service that a new geolocation has been discovered.
... xpcom/system/nsigeolocationprovider.idlscriptable notify the geolocation service that a new geolocation has been discovered.
...ionupdate.
...oring service useful if you wish to implement support for wifi-based location services.

nsIGlobalHistory
docshell/base/nsiglobalhistory.idlscriptable the interface to global history.
... docshell/base/nsiglobalhistory.idlscriptable the interface to global history.
... docshell/base/nsiglobalhistory.idlscriptable the interface to global history.
... docshell/base/nsiglobalhistory.idlscriptable the interface to global history.

nsIInputStream
xpcom/io/nsiinputstream.idlscriptable this interface represents a readable stream of data.
... input stream, on the other hand, must not block the calling thread of execution.
...ns_ok; } // copy the contents of astream into aresultbuf as one contiguous // buffer.
...to aresultbuf as one contiguous // buffer.

nsILocalFile
in gecko 14 this interface was merged into the nsifile interface.
... in gecko 14 this interface was merged into the nsifile interface.
... in gecko 14 this interface was merged into the nsifile interface.
... in gecko 14 this interface was merged into the nsifile interface.

nsILocaleService
intl/locale/idl/nsilocaleservice.idlscriptable the locale service interface.
... intl/locale/idl/nsilocaleservice.idlscriptable the locale service interface.
...nts.interfaces.nsilocaleservice); method overview nsilocale getapplicationlocale(); astring getlocalecomponentforuseragent(); nsilocale getlocalefromacceptlanguage(in string acceptlanguage); nsilocale getsystemlocale(); nsilocale newlocale(in astring alocale); nsilocale newlocaleobject(in nsilocaledefinition localedefinition); obsolete since gecko 1.9 methods getapplicationlocale() gets the user preference for locale from the operating system.
...perating system.

nsILoginManagerStorage
toolkit/components/passwordmgr/public/nsiloginmanagerstorage.idlscriptable this interface is implemented by modules that wish to provide storage mechanisms for the login manager.
... toolkit/components/passwordmgr/public/nsiloginmanagerstorage.idlscriptable this interface is implemented by modules that wish to provide storage mechanisms for the login manager.
...void searchlogins(out unsigned long count, in nsipropertybag matchdata, [retval, array, size_is(count)] out nsilogininfo logins); void setloginsavingenabled(in astring ahost, in boolean isenabled); attributes attribute type description uibusy boolean true when a master password prompt is being shown.
...browser sanitization feature when the user asks to clear all stored passwords.

nsIMessageWakeupService
content/base/public/nsimessagewakeupservice.idlscriptable implements the message manager wakeup service; this lets other components be woken up when specific message manager messages arrive.
... content/base/public/nsimessagewakeupservice.idlscriptable implements the message manager wakeup service; this lets other components be woken up when specific message manager messages arrive.
...ts the message manager wakeup service; this lets other components be woken up when specific message manager messages arrive.
...en up when specific message manager messages arrive.

nsIMicrosummary
toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface defines attributes and methods for dealing with microsummaries generated by an nsimicrosummarygenerator.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface defines attributes and methods for dealing with microsummaries generated by an nsimicrosummarygenerator.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface defines attributes and methods for dealing with microsummaries generated by an nsimicrosummarygenerator.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface defines attributes and methods for dealing with microsummaries generated by an nsimicrosummarygenerator.

nsIMicrosummaryGenerator
toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides access to a microsummary that has been installed in firefox.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides access to a microsummary that has been installed in firefox.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides access to a microsummary that has been installed in firefox.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides access to a microsummary that has been installed in firefox.

nsIMicrosummaryObserver
toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides methods for observing changes to micrummaries.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides methods for observing changes to micrummaries.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides methods for observing changes to micrummaries.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides methods for observing changes to micrummaries.

nsIMicrosummaryService
toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides methods for managing installed microsummaries, and the bookmarks they apply to.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides methods for managing installed microsummaries, and the bookmarks they apply to.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides methods for managing installed microsummaries, and the bookmarks they apply to.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides methods for managing installed microsummaries, and the bookmarks they apply to.

nsIMicrosummarySet
toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides access to sets of microsummaries returned from the nsimicrosummaryservice.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides access to sets of microsummaries returned from the nsimicrosummaryservice.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides access to sets of microsummaries returned from the nsimicrosummaryservice.
...olkit/components/places/public/nsimicrosummaryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides access to sets of microsummaries returned from the nsimicrosummaryservice.

nsIModule
xpcom/components/nsimodule.idlscriptable this interface must be implemented by each xpcom component.
... only willingness of the module to be unloaded.
...ed, this method will be called so that any unregistration can be preformed.
...registration can be preformed.

nsIMsgIncomingServer
nsimsgincomingserver mailnews/base/public/nsimsgincomingserver.idlscriptable ???
...terface ???
...password member variable.
...thod creates a filter to do that, and adds it to our filterlist if it doesn't exist.

nsINavHistoryQueryResultNode
toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable used for places queries and as a base class for bookmark folders.
... toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable used for places queries and as a base class for bookmark folders.
...set to the concrete itemid of the folder.
...ons the options that group the node's children; only valid for result_type_query nodes.

nsINavHistoryResultTreeViewer
toolkit/components/places/public/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides a predefined view adaptor for interfacing places query results with a tree.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable this interface provides a predefined view adaptor for interfacing places query results with a tree.
...et visits.
...ce it will force a tree refresh.

nsINetworkLinkService
netwerk/base/public/nsinetworklinkservice.idlscriptable network link status monitoring service.
... netwerk/base/public/nsinetworklinkservice.idlscriptable network link status monitoring service.
...s there is another usable interface already configured).
...statusknown boolean this is set to true when we believe that islinkup is accurate.

nsIPrinterEnumerator
widget/nsiprintoptions.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... widget/nsiprintoptions.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...string aresult); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void initprintsettingsfromprinter(in wstring aprintername, in nsiprintsettings aprintsettings); attributes attribute type description defaultprintername wstring the name of the system default printer.
...vice.defaultprintername for that.

nsIRadioInterfaceLayer
dom/system/gonk/nsiradiointerfacelayer.idlscriptable used to implement the interface between the telephony api and the radio hardware in a telephone.
... dom/system/gonk/nsiradiointerfacelayer.idlscriptable used to implement the interface between the telephony api and the radio hardware in a telephone.
...(in long radiotech, in domstring apn, in domstring user, in domstring passwd, in long chappap, in domstring pdptype); void starttone(in domstring dtmfchar); void stoptone(); void unregistercallback(in nsiriltelephonycallback callback); void unregisterdatacallcallback(in nsirildatacallback callback); attributes attribute type description currentstate jsval read only.
...necting 4 call_state_connected 5 call_state_holding 6 call_state_held 7 call_state_resuming 8 call_state_disconnecting 9 call_state_disconnected 10 call_state_incoming 11 datacall_state_unknown 0 datacall_state_connecting 1 datacall_state_connected 2 datacall_state_disconnecting 3 datacall_state_disconnected 4 call_state_ringing 2 obsolete since gecko 14.0 methods answercall() void answercall( in unsigned long callindex ); parameters callindex missing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description deactivatedatacall() void deactivatedatacall( in domstring cid, in domstring reason ); parameters cid missing description reason missing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description dial(...

nsISHEntry
docshell/shistory/public/nsishentry.idlscriptable each document or subframe in session history will have a nsishentry associated with it which will hold all information required to recreate the document from history.
...o entries attached to the same docshell if and only if the two entries are entries for the same document.
...eidentifier unsigned long an integer that should be the same for two entries attached to the same docshell only if the two entries are entries for the same page in the sense that one could go from the state represented by one to the state represented by the other simply by scrolling (so the entries are separated by an anchor traversal or a subframe navigation in some other frame).
...nsiinputstream post data for the document.

nsIScriptError
js/xpconnect/idl/nsiscripterror.idlscriptable represents javascript errors and warnings for use by the console service.
... js/xpconnect/idl/nsiscripterror.idlscriptable represents javascript errors and warnings for use by the console service.
... 66 introduced gecko 1.0 inherits from: nsiconsolemessage last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) implemented by: @mozilla.org/scripterror;1.
...aw an arrow pointing to the problem character.

nsIScriptableInputStream
xpcom/io/nsiscriptableinputstream.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access to a nsiinputstream instance.
...ad acount amount of data.
... it does not address the problem of reading arbitrary binary data from a stream.
...ress the problem of reading arbitrary binary data from a stream.

nsISelection2
content/base/public/nsiselection2.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... content/base/public/nsiselection2.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... content/base/public/nsiselection2.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... content/base/public/nsiselection2.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsISelection3
content/base/public/nsiselection3.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... content/base/public/nsiselection3.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... content/base/public/nsiselection3.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... content/base/public/nsiselection3.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsISelectionController
content/base/public/nsiselectioncontroller.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...ward); void scrollselectionintoview(in short type, in short region, in short flags); void selectall(); void setcaretenabled(in boolean enabled); void setcaretreadonly(in boolean readonly); void setcaretvisibilityduringselection(in boolean visibility); void setcaretwidth(in short pixels); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void setdisplayselection(in short toggle); void wordextendfordelete(in boolean forward); native code only!
...in boolean forward, in boolean extend); attributes attribute type description caretvisible boolean this is true if the caret is enabled, visible, and currently blinking.
...etvisibilityduringselection() show the caret even in selections.

nsISelectionPrivate
dom/base/nsiselectionprivate.idlscriptable internal support for content selection handling.
...trangesforintervalarray(in nsinode beginnode, in print32 beginoffset, in nsinode endnode, in print32 endoffset, in boolean allowadjacent, in rangearray results); native code only!
...represent the range to compare against the selection.
...he input range.

nsISessionStore
browser/components/sessionstore/nsisessionstore.idlscriptable provides a means for extensions and other code to store data in association with browser sessions, tabs, and windows.
... browser/components/sessionstore/nsisessionstore.idlscriptable provides a means for extensions and other code to store data in association with browser sessions, tabs, and windows.
... in unsigned long aindex ); parameters awindow the browser window in which to reopen a closed tab.
... window in which to reopen a closed tab.

nsISupportsPRInt32
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for 32-bit signed integers.
... xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for 32-bit signed integers.
...ed in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data print32 provides access to the native type represented by the object.
...tostring(); attributes attribute type description data print32 provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsITaskbarWindowPreview
widget/public/nsitaskbarwindowpreview.idlscriptable this interface is used on microsoft windows to represent the preview for a window in the taskbar.
... widget/public/nsitaskbarwindowpreview.idlscriptable this interface is used on microsoft windows to represent the preview for a window in the taskbar.
...: nsitaskbarpreview last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) you can't directly instantiate this interface; instead, call nsiwintaskbar.gettaskbarwindowpreview() to get the taskbar preview for a specific window.
...ttribute.

nsITextInputProcessorNotification
dom/interfaces/base/nsitextinputprocessorcallback.idlscriptable this interface of a request or notification to ime 1.0 66 introduced gecko 38 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 38.0 (firefox 38.0 / thunderbird 38.0 / seamonkey 2.35) this interface tells details of a request or notification to ime.
... dom/interfaces/base/nsitextinputprocessorcallback.idlscriptable this interface of a request or notification to ime 1.0 66 introduced gecko 38 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 38.0 (firefox 38.0 / thunderbird 38.0 / seamonkey 2.35) this interface tells details of a request or notification to ime.
...request or notification to ime.
... or web contents modify the value of the editor during composition.

nsIToolkitProfileService
toolkit/profile/public/nsitoolkitprofileservice.idlscriptable the profile service manages user profiles.
... toolkit/profile/public/nsitoolkitprofileservice.idlscriptable the profile service manages user profiles.
...irefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) note: starting in gecko 1.9.1, this service is implemented by @mozilla.org/toolkit/profile-service;1.
...to access the built-in profile manager in versions of firefox up to 4.0 and thunderbird up to 3.3 you can launch with the -profilemanager command line flag.

nsIUpdate
lected to download and install, for example we might select a binary difference patch first and attempt to apply that, then if the application process fails fall back to downloading a complete file-replace patch.
...inary difference patch first and attempt to apply that, then if the application process fails fall back to downloading a complete file-replace patch.
...ror occurred while parsing the patch.
...ad-failed" the update failed to be downloaded.

nsIUpdateItem
toolkit/mozapps/extensions/public/nsiextensionmanager.idlscriptable describes an item managed by the extension system, providing metadata describing the item.
... toolkit/mozapps/extensions/public/nsiextensionmanager.idlscriptable describes an item managed by the extension system, providing metadata describing the item.
... toolkit/mozapps/extensions/public/nsiextensionmanager.idlscriptable describes an item managed by the extension system, providing metadata describing the item.
...installmanager.initmanagerwithhashes().

nsIUpdatePrompt
toolkit/mozapps/update/nsiupdateservice.idlscriptable this interface describes an object that can be used to show various update-related notifications to the user.
... toolkit/mozapps/update/nsiupdateservice.idlscriptable this interface describes an object that can be used to show various update-related notifications to the user.
...rent window to which to anchor the update list window.
...dow.

nsIWindowWatcher
embedding/components/windowwatcher/public/nsiwindowwatcher.idlscriptable this interface is the keeper of gecko/dom windows.
... embedding/components/windowwatcher/public/nsiwindowwatcher.idlscriptable this interface is the keeper of gecko/dom windows.
... specified resource is loaded into its browsing context.">window.open for details.
...xpcom component code), you might want to use this interface for opening a new window: var ww = components.classes["@mozilla.org/embedcomp/window-watcher;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiwindowwatcher); var win = ww.openwindow(null, "chrome://myextension/content/about.xul", "aboutmyextension", "chrome,centerscreen", null); note: versions of gecko before gecko 2.0 would ignore some of the chrome flags when opening a chrome window without an opener window, instead behaving as if the "all" flag was present.

Xray vision
xray vision helps javascript running in a privileged security context safely access objects created by less privileged code, by showing the caller only the native version of the objects.
...ted and potentially hostile, both to other websites and to the user.
...ent gets you the waived version of document.
...cript object or date as well as a string or a primitive the return value of evalinsandbox() and any properties attached to the sandbox object may be pure javascript objects also, the webidl specifications are starting to use javascript types such as date and promise: since webidl definition is the basis of dom xrays, not having xrays for these javascript types starts to seem arbitrary.

URLs - Plugins
r, uploading files to an ftp server, and sending mail.
...o an ftp server, and sending mail.
... description about locates browser information or "fun" pages.
... the url request was completed and the reason for completion.

Console.group() - Web APIs
creates a new inline group in the web console log.
... using groups in the console requires gecko 9.0(firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) you can use nested groups to help organize your output by visually associating related messages.
...oups in the console requires gecko 9.0(firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) you can use nested groups to help organize your output by visually associating related messages.
...roups to help organize your output by visually associating related messages.

Guide to the Fullscreen API - Web APIs
.webm"></source> <source src="somevideo.mp4"></source> </video> we can put that video into full-screen mode as follows: var elem = document.getelementbyid("myvideo"); if (elem.requestfullscreen) { elem.requestfullscreen(); } this code checks for the existence of the requestfullscreen() method before calling it.
...</source> </video> we can put that video into full-screen mode as follows: var elem = document.getelementbyid("myvideo"); if (elem.requestfullscreen) { elem.requestfullscreen(); } this code checks for the existence of the requestfullscreen() method before calling it.
...: 100%".
...en().

HTML Drag and Drop API - Web APIs
include the drag event's state, such as the type of drag being done (like copy or move), the drag's data (one or more items), and the mime type of each drag item.
...the former uses the synchronous getdata() method to access a drag item's data, but the latter instead uses the asynchronous getasstring() method.
...more information about drag-and-drop interoperability.
...d-drop interoperability.

KeyboardEvent: code values - Web APIs
r" ("mediaselect" prior to firefox 49) "" 0xe06e ～ 0xe0f0 "unidentified" "" 0xe0f1 (hanja key with korean keyboard layout) "lang2" "" 0xe0f2 (han/yeong key with korean keyboard layout) "lang1" "" code values on mac on mac os x, it's hard to get scancode or something which can distinguish a physical key from a key event.
...dentified" "" 0xe0f1 (hanja key with korean keyboard layout) "lang2" "" 0xe0f2 (han/yeong key with korean keyboard layout) "lang1" "" code values on mac on mac os x, it's hard to get scancode or something which can distinguish a physical key from a key event.
...wright" kvk_downarrow (0x7d) "arrowdown" "arrowdown" kvk_uparrow (0x7e) "arrowup" "arrowup" code values on linux (x11) (when scancode is available) note that x has too many keys and some of them are not testable with usual keyboard.
..."f18" "" 0x00c5 "f19" "" 0x00c6 "f20" "" 0x00c7 "f21" "" 0x00c8 "f22" "" 0x00c9 "f23" "" 0x00ca "f24" "" 0x00cb ～ 0x00e0 "unidentified" "" 0x00e1 "browsersearch" "" code values on android and firefox os (when scancode is available) scancode gecko 0x0001 "escape" 0x0002 "digit1" 0x0003 "digit2" 0x0004 "digit3" 0x0005 "digit4" 0x0006 "digit5" 0x0007 "digit6" 0x0008 "digit7" 0x0009 "digit8" 0x000a "digit9" 0x000b "digit0" 0x000c "minus" 0x000d "equal" 0x000e "backspace" ...

Using XMLHttpRequest - Web APIs
) that is set on the xmlhttprequest.open() method.
...request.upload object, as shown below: var oreq = new xmlhttprequest(); oreq.upload.addeventlistener("progress", updateprogress); oreq.upload.addeventlistener("load", transfercomplete); oreq.upload.addeventlistener("error", transferfailed); oreq.upload.addeventlistener("abort", transfercanceled); oreq.open(); note: progress events are not available for the file: protocol.
... can now be relied upon to come in for every chunk of data received, including the last chunk in cases in which the last packet is received and the connection closed before the progress event is fired.
...ipt is to work with a stringifiable raw data, we used the sendasbinary() method in conjunction with the readasbinarystring() method of the filereader api.

XMLHttpRequest - Web APIs
is a boolean.
...is a boolean.
...f true, the same origin policy will not be enforced on the request.
... the request.

<color> - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
use -moz-fieldtext instead.
...olor.
...oz-field.
...ext.

Event developer guide - Developer guides
the web platform provides several ways to get notified of dom events.
...s occurring when a browser accesses a web page, including events from preparing a web page for display, from interacting with the content of the web page, relating to the device on which the browser is running, and from many other causes such as media stream playback or animation timing.touch events (mozilla experimental)the experimental touch events api described on this page was available from gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) to gecko/firefox 17.
...b page, relating to the device on which the browser is running, and from many other causes such as media stream playback or animation timing.touch events (mozilla experimental)the experimental touch events api described on this page was available from gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) to gecko/firefox 17.
...er is running, and from many other causes such as media stream playback or animation timing.touch events (mozilla experimental)the experimental touch events api described on this page was available from gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) to gecko/firefox 17.

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) - HTTP
l); xhr.onreadystatechange = somehandler; xhr.send(); this performs a simple exchange between the client and the server, using cors headers to handle the privileges: let's look at what the browser will send to the server in this case, and let's see how the server responds: get /resources/public-data/ http/1.1 host: bar.other user-agent: mozilla/5.0 (macintosh; intel mac os x 10.14; rv:71.0) gecko/20100101 firefox/71.0 accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 accept-language: en-us,en;q=0.5 accept-encoding: gzip,deflate connection: keep-alive origin: https://foo.example the request header of note is origin, which shows that the invocation is coming from https://foo.example.
...request is preflighted.
...o.example access-control-allow-methods: post, get, options access-control-allow-headers: x-pingother, content-type access-control-max-age: 86400 vary: accept-encoding, origin keep-alive: timeout=2, max=100 connection: keep-alive once the preflight request is complete, the real request is sent: post /doc http/1.1 host: bar.other user-agent: mozilla/5.0 (macintosh; intel mac os x 10.14; rv:71.0) gecko/20100101 firefox/71.0 accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 accept-language: en-us,en;q=0.5 accept-encoding: gzip,deflate connection: keep-alive x-pingother: pingpong content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 referer: https://foo.example/examples/preflightinvocation.html content-length: 55 origin: https://foo.example pragma: no-cache cache-control: no-cache <person>...
...e get request, it is not preflighted, but the browser will reject any response that does not have the access-control-allow-credentials: true header, and not make the response available to the invoking web content.

SVG 1.1 Support in Firefox - SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics
you can find some basic examples of svg syntax and usage in the w3c svg test suite.
... you can find some basic examples of svg syntax and usage in the w3c svg test suite.
...tributes: textlength, lengthadjust tref this feature, present in early draft of the spec, has been removed from it and is therefor not implemented (bug 273171).
... fefuncb implemented.

Finding window handles - Archive of obsolete content
note: starting in gecko 17.0, nsibasewindow.nativehandle provides the handle (hwnd [widows], gdkwindow* [linux], nswindow* [macosx],...) of a top-level window, for all plateforms, as a string.
... gecko 17.0, nsibasewindow.nativehandle provides the handle (hwnd [widows], gdkwindow* [linux], nswindow* [macosx],...) of a top-level window, for all plateforms, as a string.
... (parent window handle) this method is for people who want to get the top level window hwnd from the window object in javascript.

Preferences - Archive of obsolete content
can set an observer on any preference or branch.
...mponents.interfaces.nsiprefservice); // for this.branch we ask for the preferences for extensions.myextension.
...branch.setcharpref etc.

Creating custom Firefox extensions with the Mozilla build system - Archive of obsolete content
vide additional functionality.
...overkill, and you might want to take a look at this guide instead.
...dso_ldopts += \ $(moz_component_libs) \ $(nspr_libs) \ $(null) in this example, the first two files contain the implementation of the extension's two components.

How to convert an overlay extension to restartless - Archive of obsolete content
talking about here?
...to be extractionless when you go restartless.
...ul overlay.

Chapter 3: Introduction to XUL—How to build a more intuitive UI - Archive of obsolete content
ode example.
...ight-click on systems set up as left-handed) on the mouse or selection by the enter key.
...stem "chrome://testapp/locale/testapp.dtd"> <window xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"> <button label="&button.1.label;"/> <button label="&button.2.label;"/> </window> listing 26: reading in external entities <!entity button.1.label "firefox"> <!entity button.2.label "thunderbird"> listing 27: testapp.dtd substituting css for attribute declarations the gecko rendering engine includes a number of css properties with -moz- prepended to them; these are custom properties for xul that have been implemented prior to being a w3c recommendation.

Setting Up a Development Environment - Archive of obsolete content
s a reference in case you do need to use xpcom in your project.
...the sdk page and download a compiled version for your system.
...r system.

Overlay extensions - Archive of obsolete content
this page contains links to documentation for the approach to developing extensions for gecko-based applications which uses: xul overlays to specify the interface apis available to privileged code, such as tabbrowser and javascript modules, to interact with the application and content.
... this page contains links to documentation for the approach to developing extensions for gecko-based applications which uses: xul overlays to specify the interface apis available to privileged code, such as tabbrowser and javascript modules, to interact with the application and content.
...he only way to develop extensions.

List of Former Mozilla-Based Applications - Archive of obsolete content
being actively maintained.
... tools for startups, vcs, and angel investors switched from xulrunner-based client to a web application autodesk maya 3d modeling tool switched off of gecko for help browser in version 8.5 blam feed reader switched to webkit in version 1.8.6 boxee media center software switched to webkit in version 1.0 epiphany browser switched from gecko to webkit flock social browsing flock switched from being firefox-based to chromium-based when it released a new beta on june 16, 2010 jolicloud web operating system as of march 2010, rw/w reports jolicloud is on chrome/chrome os joost tv over internet switched from xulrunner-based client to a web application liferea news aggregator swit...
... liferea news aggregator switched to webkit in version 1.6 manyone browser browser originally mozilla-based but now i believe the have a web-based tool (need reference for that) miro (formerly democracy player) video switched from xulrunner to webkit in version 3.0.2 moblin browser browser when moblin became meego it switched from a custom gecko-based browser to chrome nautilus file manager hasn't used mozilla code since version 2.0 raptr client gaming client was a xulrunner app initially but now uses adobe air rift technologies software installation over internet no longer using mozilla technology -- need confirmation and details second life virtual world desktop client switche...

Defining Cross-Browser Tooltips - Archive of obsolete content
ip&quot; above images, but that's not how it was meant to be used.
...e used to using the alt attribute to create "tooltips" in web browsers.
...ly clear that the proper method for defining a "tooltip" for an image (or, indeed, for any element) is to use the title attribute.

Using content preferences - Archive of obsolete content
owser.download.lastdir the last directory for any site use downloadlastdir.jsm for access to these preferences.
... use downloadlastdir.jsm for access to these preferences.
... thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) prior to gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6), the content preference service always stores preferences on disk.

GRE - Archive of obsolete content
the framework for embedding mozilla technologies was at one point called the gre (gecko runtime environment).
... the framework for embedding mozilla technologies was at one point called the gre (gecko runtime environment).
...ation wishes to use the gre, it must take careful steps to ensure that it links against the proper libraries.

Plugin Architecture - Archive of obsolete content
this page contains some notes on how plugins work internally in gecko.
... this page contains some notes on how plugins work internally in gecko.
... this page contains some notes on how plugins work internally in gecko.

Writing textual data - Archive of obsolete content
some character encodings (utf-8, utf-16, utf-32) can represent "all" characters (the full repertoire of unicode) while others can only represent a subset of the full repertoire.
....init(fos, charset, 0, "?".charcodeat(0)); you can, of course, replace the "?" in that example with any other character.
... the stream.

Install script template - Archive of obsolete content
e the web page which invoked the plugin to // reload.
..., status "+hklm_status); if (hkcu_status != 0) { logcomment("could not write to the registry.
...t("insufficient disk space: " + dirpath); logcomment(" required : " + spacerequired + " k"); logcomment(" available: " + spaceavailable + " k"); return(false); } return(true); } /** * function for writing keys to the win32 system registry.

confirm - Archive of obsolete content
d of install object syntax int confirm( string atext ); int confirm( string atext, string adialogtitle, number abuttonflags, string abutton0title, string abutton1title, string abutton2title, string acheckmsg, object acheckstate ); parameters the second, extended confirm() method is supported starting with gecko 1.8.
...irm( string atext, string adialogtitle, number abuttonflags, string abutton0title, string abutton1title, string abutton2title, string acheckmsg, object acheckstate ); parameters the second, extended confirm() method is supported starting with gecko 1.8.
...hich button the user selected: value button 0 'cancel' or button 1.

International characters in XUL JavaScript - Archive of obsolete content
gecko 1.8, as used in firefox 1.5 and other applications, added support for non-ascii characters in javascript files loaded from xul files.
...guage of the world.
... can represent virtually all characters in the world.

appLocale - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference applocale obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: nsilocale returns the xpcom object which holds information about the user's locale.
... « xul reference applocale obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: nsilocale returns the xpcom object which holds information about the user's locale.
... « xul reference applocale obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: nsilocale returns the xpcom object which holds information about the user's locale.

tabbrowser - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home [ examples | attributes | properties | methods | related ] this element is used for holding a set of read-only views of web documents.
...pe: todo use the contentwindow.wrappedjsobject to obtain a dom(html) window object currenturi type: nsiuri this read-only property contains the currently loaded url.
...ontains the nsidocshell object for the document.

Debugging a XULRunner Application - Archive of obsolete content
le, use dump("my text here\n");.
...owser.dom.window.dump.file to the file destination where the log should be created and restart the application.
...(function defined below) will output str as a "message" with a speech bubble icon next to it: function jsdump(str) { components.classes['@mozilla.org/consoleservice;1'] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiconsoleservice) .logstringmessage(str); } for more information about the error console see the error console and browser console article.

Deploying XULRunner - Archive of obsolete content
on ...
...such as icons, etc macos/ xulrunner (this is the "stub executable"...
...k/versions/1.8/xulrunner.) libmozglue.dylib (the main xul library) ...

2006-11-24 - Archive of obsolete content
he gets an error.
...ozconfig.
...oris zbarskyannounced that: we need to create an intl performance page set or multiple intl performance page sets and run at least the pageload tests for all of these pagesets, and preferably also some sort of dhtml tests using pages of the different types.

NPN_GetValue - Archive of obsolete content
« gecko plugin api reference « browser side plug-in api summary allows the plug-in to query the browser for information.
...rigin converted to nfkc-encoded (normalized) utf-8.
...normalized) utf-8.

Plugins - Archive of obsolete content
braries that users can install to display content that the browser can't display natively.
... as firebreath, juce, or qtbrowserplugin.
...plains how javascript can be used to access methods from within the flash plugin, as well as how a feature called fscommands can be used to access javascript functions from within the flash animation.

Making sure your theme works with RTL locales - Archive of obsolete content
ll have a right margin instead (or -moz-margin-start), arrows that pointed right will have to point left and vice versa, and so on.
...instead (or -moz-margin-start), arrows that pointed right will have to point left and vice versa, and so on.
...example toolbar[iconsize="large"][mode="icons"] #back-button { -moz-image-region: rect(0px 396px 34px 360px); } toolbar[iconsize="large"][mode="icons"] #back-button:-moz-locale-dir(rtl) { -moz-image-region: rect(0px 516px 34px 480px); } this specifies the default, left-to-right version of the button, then offers an override if the user's interface is being rendered in right-to-left mode.

Fixing Incorrectly Sized List Item Markers - Archive of obsolete content
summary: an obscure bug in gecko causes list-item markers to be differently sizeed than the text of the list item, but there is a fix authors can use.
... summary: an obscure bug in gecko causes list-item markers to be differently sizeed than the text of the list item, but there is a fix authors can use.
...s will not use the font size of the list item text, but will instead stay the same as the user's default font size.

Archive of obsolete content
gn clearly shows what some experts have been saying: that standards-based design can be visually compelling and preserve the interface conventions we've come to expect from web pages.
...f long-awaited novelties, like rounded corners, shadows, gradients, transitions or animations, as well as new layouts like multi-columns, flexible box or grid layouts.
... ** notes ** - the solution quick reference needs more attention.

Gonk - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
sists of a linux kernel (based on the android open source project (aosp)) and userspace hardware abstraction layer (hal).
...x kernel (based on the android open source project (aosp)) and userspace hardware abstraction layer (hal).
...ral of the userspace libraries are common open-source projects: linux, libusb, bluez, and so forth.

Command line options
ly.
... be run as admin / root.
...r-global unregisters xulrunner for all users.

Debugging
is a memory debugger for mac and linux.
...efox.
...e tips for debugging safari debugging chrome some tips for debugging chrome debugging internet explorer some tips for debugging internet explorer providing useful information to the mozilla developers how to get a stacktrace for a bug report useful information you can provide about a crash.

The Firefox codebase: CSS Guidelines
pecially useful in conjunction with icons using -moz-context-properties: fill; where the icon can adjust to the right platform color automatically from the text color.
...djustments regarding page colors.
...xt.

Index
found 172 pages: # page tags and summary 1 firefox firefox, landing, mozilla here you can learn about how to contribute to the firefox project and you will also find links to information about the construction of firefox add-ons, using the developer tools in firefox, and other topics.
...to contribute to the firefox project and you will also find links to information about the construction of firefox add-ons, using the developer tools in firefox, and other topics.
... the developer tools in firefox, and other topics.

Embedding Tips
what is a service?
...you wish to preview the page with.
... pr_true, pr_true, getter_copies(previous)); that way you will be able to do: var my_comp = new my_prop_name(); this was taken from weirdal's excellent "burning chrome" article.

FileUtils.jsm
modeflags ); parameters file the file to write to.
...ost of the issues.
...n existing file.

Using workers in JavaScript code modules
you can do so by using chromeworker instead of the standard worker object.
...bject.
...to js-ctypes via a global ctypes object available in the global scope of the worker obsolete since gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5)this feature is obsolete.

Power profiling overview
blocked i/o system calls receiving data.
...xistence of c-states is that observations made during power profiling — even more than with other kinds of profiling — can disturb what is being observed.
...many power problems are caused by either high cpu usage or high wakeup frequency.

Reporting a Performance Problem
this article will guide you in reporting a performance problem using the built-in gecko profiler tool.
...ble data.
...hatever it is that slows down firefox while recording the profile.

Midas
introduction midas is the code name for gecko's built-in rich text editor.
... built-in rich text editor.
...y the user.

GCIntegration - SpiderMonkey Redirect 1
the spidermonkey garbage collector (gc) will be changing a lot in the future.
...hat any destroyed pointer was pointing to an object that was part of the initial snapshot.
...ial snapshot only contains objects reachable via traced pointers, so there's no danger that overwriting an untraced pointer will disrupt the snapshot.

Mozilla Projects
mportant that the update information retrieved has not been tampered with since being written by the add-on author.
...or.
...ased on the dhtml commands supported by internet explorer.

Places Developer Guide
id) - returns the type of an item (bookmark, folder, separator) prtime getitemdateadded(aitemid) - returns the time in microseconds that an item was added prtime getitemlastmodified(aitemid) - returns the time in microseconds that an item was last modified int64 getfolderidforitem(aitemid) - returns the id of the folder containing the given item.
...le.
...r firefox, not other toolkit-based applications.

Using XPCOM Components
ses javascript that has been given access to xpcom components in the application core with a technology called xpconnect.
...level browser-like functionality such as nswebbrowserfind, which provides find() and findnext() methods for finding content in web pages, and in low-level tasks such as the manipulation of data.
...main ways that clients typically access xpcom components: finding mozilla components this book attempts to provide reference information for xpcom components and their interfaces that are frozen as of the time of this writing.

Components.utils.import
components.utils.import was introduced in firefox 3 and is used for sharing code between different scopes easily.
...nts.utils.import was introduced in firefox 3 and is used for sharing code between different scopes easily.
...tax components.utils.import(url [, scope]); // or, if you use a tool such as jslint which reports compiler errors for the above, components.utils["import"](url [, scope]); parameters url a string of the url of the script to be loaded.

Observer Notifications
starting in firefox 3.5 components can simply register for the profile-after-change notification in nsicategorymanager.
...d.
...rowsing mode.

amIWebInstallInfo
toolkit/mozapps/extensions/amiwebinstalllistener.idlscriptable this interface is used by the default implementation of amiwebinstalllistener to communicate with the running application and allow it to warn the user about blocked installs and start the installs running.
... toolkit/mozapps/extensions/amiwebinstalllistener.idlscriptable this interface is used by the default implementation of amiwebinstalllistener to communicate with the running application and allow it to warn the user about blocked installs and start the installs running.
...attributes attribute type description installs nsivariant an array of addoninstall objects.

amIWebInstallListener
toolkit/mozapps/extensions/amiwebinstalllistener.idlscriptable starts all installs.
...er.idlscriptable starts all installs.
...in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); void onwebinstalldisabled(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); boolean onwebinstallrequested(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); note: prior to gecko 8.0, all references to nsidomwindow used in this interface were nsidomwindowinternal.

amIWebInstallPrompt
toolkit/mozapps/extensions/amiwebinstalllistener.idlscriptable called when installation by websites is currently disabled.
... toolkit/mozapps/extensions/amiwebinstalllistener.idlscriptable called when installation by websites is currently disabled.
...e called when installation by websites is currently disabled.

amIWebInstaller
toolkit/mozapps/extensions/amiwebinstaller.idlscriptable this interface is used to allow web pages to start installing add-ons.
... toolkit/mozapps/extensions/amiwebinstaller.idlscriptable this interface is used to allow web pages to start installing add-ons.
...ri areferer, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring auris, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring ahashes, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring anames, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring aicons, [optional] in amiinstallcallback acallback, [optional] in pruint32 ainstallcount); boolean isinstallenabled(in astring amimetype, in nsiuri areferer); note: prior to gecko 8.0, all references to nsidomwindow used in this interface were nsidomwindow.

imgIContainerObserver
image/public/imgicontainerobserver.idlscriptable an interface to implement to listen to activities on an imgicontainer object.
... image/public/imgicontainerobserver.idlscriptable an interface to implement to listen to activities on an imgicontainer object.
...ed.

mozIPlaceInfo
warning: this interface is experimental and will change after gecko 2.0.
... warning: this interface is experimental and will change after gecko 2.0.
... warning: this interface is experimental and will change after gecko 2.0.

mozIVisitInfoCallback
toolkit/components/places/public/moziasynchistory.idlscriptable this interface provides callback handling functionality for moziasynchistory.updateplaces() 1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) method overview void handleerror(in nsresult aresultcode, in moziplaceinfo aplaceinfo); void handleresult(in moziplaceinfo aplaceinfo); void oncomplete(in nsresult aresultcode, in moziplaceinfo aplaceinfo);obsolete since gecko 8.0 methods handleerror() called when a moziplaceinfo couldn't be processed.
...lled for each visit added, title change, or guid change when passed to moziasynchistory.updateplaces().
...guid change when passed to moziasynchistory.updateplaces().

nsIAccessibleCoordinateType
accessible/public/nsiaccessibletypes.idlscriptable these constants define which coordinate system a point is located in.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibletypes.idlscriptable these constants define which coordinate system a point is located in.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibletypes.idlscriptable these constants define which coordinate system a point is located in.

nsIAccessibleRole
accessible/public/nsiaccessiblerole.idlscriptable this interface defines cross platform (gecko) roles.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessiblerole.idlscriptable this interface defines cross platform (gecko) roles.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessiblerole.idlscriptable this interface defines cross platform (gecko) roles.

nsIAccessibleStates
accessible/public/nsiaccessiblestates.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessiblestates.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessiblestates.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsIAccessibleValue
accessible/public/nsiaccessiblevalue.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessiblevalue.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...is article.

nsIAppStartup_MOZILLA_2_0
toolkit/components/startup/public/nsiappstartup.idlscriptable this lets you get information about the times at which key application startup events occurred.
... toolkit/components/startup/public/nsiappstartup.idlscriptable this lets you get information about the times at which key application startup events occurred.
... toolkit/components/startup/public/nsiappstartup.idlscriptable this lets you get information about the times at which key application startup events occurred.

nsIApplicationUpdateService
toolkit/mozapps/update/nsiupdateservice.idlscriptable this interface describes a global application service that handles performing background update checks.
... toolkit/mozapps/update/nsiupdateservice.idlscriptable this interface describes a global application service that handles performing background update checks.
...boolean true if the update service can check for updates.

nsICachingChannel
netwerk/base/public/nsicachingchannel.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...plugins).
...ll not be loaded from the cache.

nsIClipboard
widget/nsiclipboard.idlscriptable this interface supports basic clipboard operations such as: setting, retrieving, emptying, matching and supporting clipboard data.
...riptable this interface supports basic clipboard operations such as: setting, retrieving, emptying, matching and supporting clipboard data.
...board for find strings.

nsIClipboardDragDropHookList
widget/public/nsiclipboarddragdrophooklist.idlscriptable this interface is an internal gecko component.
... widget/public/nsiclipboarddragdrophooklist.idlscriptable this interface is an internal gecko component.
... basic operations such as adding, removing and enumerating clipboard hooks for the nsiclipboarddragdrophooks interface.

nsIComponentRegistrar
xpcom/components/nsicomponentregistrar.idlscriptable this interface provides methods to access and modify the xpcom component registry.
...ance of the class being unregistered.
...isterfactorylocation() unregisters the factory associated with a given classid and component file location.

nsICompositionStringSynthesizer
dom/interfaces/base/nsicompositionstringsynthesizer.idlscriptable this interface is a composition string synthesizer interface that synthesizes composition string with arbitrary clauses and a caret 1.0 66 introduced gecko 26 obsolete gecko 38 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 38.0 (firefox 38.0 / thunderbird 38.0 / seamonkey 2.35) this interface is obsoleted in gecko 38.
...en you commits composition with the last composition string "foo-bar-buzz": // deprecated in 36, first, dispatch commit string without clause information compositionstringsynthesizer.setstring("foo-bar-buzz"); compositionstringsynthesizer.dispatchevent(); // then, dispatch compositionend with the commit string domwindowutils.sendcompositionevent("compositionend", "foo-bar-buzz", ""); starting gecko 36, you can do it simpler: domwindowutils.sendcompositionevent("compositioncommitasis", "", ""); if you need to commit composition with different commit string gecko 36 or later, you can use "compositioncommit": domwindowutils.sendcompositionevent("compositioncommit", "foo-bar-buzz", ""); method overview void appendclause(in unsigned long alength, in unsigned long aattribute); ...
...n in the composition string set by setstring().

nsICookieManager2
the nsicookiemanager2 interface contains additional methods that expand upon the nsicookiemanager interface.
...tf8string ahost, in autf8string apath, in acstring aname, in acstring avalue, in boolean aissecure, in boolean aishttponly, in boolean aissession, in print64 aexpiry); boolean cookieexists(in nsicookie2 acookie); unsigned long countcookiesfromhost(in autf8string ahost); boolean findmatchingcookie(in nsicookie2 acookie, out unsigned long acountfromhost); obsolete since gecko 1.9 nsisimpleenumerator getcookiesfromhost(in autf8string ahost); void importcookies(in nsifile acookiefile); methods add() adds a cookie.
...her.yahoo.com" would not.

nsIDOMChromeWindow
dom/interfaces/base/nsidomchromewindow.idlscriptable this interface is implemented on the window object in chrome.
... void setcursor(in domstring cursor); attributes attribute type description browserdomwindow nsibrowserdomwindow the related nsibrowserdomwindow instance which provides access to yet another layer of utility functions by chrome script.
... into the foreground.

nsIDOMGeoPositionError
the nsidomgeopositionerror interface represents an error that occurred while performing geolocation operations.
...r.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports attributes attribute type description code short numerical error code; see error constants for a complete list.

nsIDOMWindow2
dom/interfaces/base/nsidomwindow2.idlscriptable this interface is the primary interface for a dom window object.
...table this interface is the primary interface for a dom window object.
...ows if the document in the window contains an html frameset document, or if the document contains <iframe> elements.

nsIDOMXPathEvaluator
dom/interfaces/xpath/nsidomxpathevaluator.idlscriptable this interface is used to evaluate xpath expressions against a dom node.
...pathnsresolver resolver) nsidomxpathnsresolver creatensresolver(in nsidomnode noderesolver); nsisupports evaluate(in domstring expression, in nsidomnode contextnode, in nsidomxpathnsresolver resolver, in unsigned short type, in nsisupports result) methods createexpression() creates an nsidomxpathexpression which can then be used for (repeated) evaluations.
... evaluate(in domstring expression, in nsidomnode contextnode, in nsidomxpathnsresolver resolver, in unsigned short type, in nsisupports result) methods createexpression() creates an nsidomxpathexpression which can then be used for (repeated) evaluations.

nsIDeviceMotion
xpcom/system/nsidevicemotion.idlscriptable this interface is used to implement accelerometer support.
... xpcom/system/nsidevicemotion.idlscriptable this interface is used to implement accelerometer support.
... xpcom/system/nsidevicemotion.idlscriptable this interface is used to implement accelerometer support.

nsIDeviceMotionData
xpcom/system/nsidevicemotion.idlscriptable this interface provides information about device motion.
... xpcom/system/nsidevicemotion.idlscriptable this interface provides information about device motion.
... xpcom/system/nsidevicemotion.idlscriptable this interface provides information about device motion.

nsIDictionary
extensions/xml-rpc/idl/nsidictionary.idlscriptable a simple mutable table of objects, maintained as key/value pairs.
... extensions/xml-rpc/idl/nsidictionary.idlscriptable a simple mutable table of objects, maintained as key/value pairs.
... extensions/xml-rpc/idl/nsidictionary.idlscriptable a simple mutable table of objects, maintained as key/value pairs.

nsIEditorObserver
editor/idl/nsieditorobserver.idlscriptable used by applications wishing to be notified when the editor has completed a user action.
... editor/idl/nsieditorobserver.idlscriptable used by applications wishing to be notified when the editor has completed a user action.
... editor/idl/nsieditorobserver.idlscriptable used by applications wishing to be notified when the editor has completed a user action.

nsIEffectiveTLDService
netwerk/dns/nsieffectivetldservice.idlscriptable this is an interface that examines a hostname and determines the longest portion that should be treated as though it were a top-level domain (tld).
... netwerk/dns/nsieffectivetldservice.idlscriptable this is an interface that examines a hostname and determines the longest portion that should be treated as though it were a top-level domain (tld).
... normalize() method in nsiidnservice and is thrown when ahost contains characters disallowed in uris.

nsIEventListenerService
content/events/public/nsieventlistenerservice.idlscriptable a service that can be used to get a list of listeners observing events; this is primarily useful for debuggers.
... content/events/public/nsieventlistenerservice.idlscriptable a service that can be used to get a list of listeners observing events; this is primarily useful for debuggers.
... nsidomeventlistener listener, in boolean usecapture); void removesystemeventlistener(in nsidomeventtarget target, in domstring type, in nsidomeventlistener listener, in boolean usecapture); attributes attribute type description systemeventgroup nsidomeventgroup returns system event group.

nsIFilePicker
widget/nsifilepicker.idlscriptable the file picker component is used to display standard user interface for selecting files and directories, as well as for selecting destinations for, and naming, new files.
...1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsifilepicker); method overview void appendfilter(in astring title, in astring filter); void appendfilters(in long filtermask); void init(in nsidomwindow parent, in astring title, in short mode); void open(in nsifilepickershowncallback afilepickershowncallback); short show(); obsolete since gecko 57.0 attributes attribute type description addtorecentdocs boolean if true, the file is added to the operating system's "recent documents" list (if the operating system has one; nothing happens if there is no such concept on the user's platform).
... one of the mode constants, indicating the type of picker to create.

nsIFrameMessageManager
content/base/public/nsimessagemanager.idlscriptable provides methods for managing message listeners on local frames.
... content/base/public/nsimessagemanager.idlscriptable provides methods for managing message listeners on local frames.
... content/base/public/nsimessagemanager.idlscriptable provides methods for managing message listeners on local frames.

nsIHttpChannelInternal
netwerk/protocol/http/nsihttpchannelinternal.idlscriptable an internal interface for http channels.
... netwerk/protocol/http/nsihttpchannelinternal.idlscriptable an internal interface for http channels.
... localport print32 the local port number to which the channel is bound.

nsIInstallLocation
toolkit/mozapps/extensions/public/nsiextensionmanager.idlscriptable interface representing a location where extensions, themes and so on are installed.
... toolkit/mozapps/extensions/public/nsiextensionmanager.idlscriptable interface representing a location where extensions, themes and so on are installed.
... toolkit/mozapps/extensions/public/nsiextensionmanager.idlscriptable interface representing a location where extensions, themes and so on are installed.

nsILivemarkService
toolkit/components/places/public/nsilivemarkservice.idlscriptable this interface is used to create and reload livemarks.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsilivemarkservice.idlscriptable this interface is used to create and reload livemarks.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsilivemarkservice.idlscriptable this interface is used to create and reload livemarks.

nsIMenuBoxObject
layout/xul/base/public/nsimenuboxobject.idlscriptable represents the box object for a xul menu.
...verview boolean handlekeypress(in nsidomkeyevent keyevent); void openmenu(in boolean openflag); attributes attribute type description activechild nsidomelement the currently active menu or menuitem child of the menu box.
...g); attributes attribute type description activechild nsidomelement the currently active menu or menuitem child of the menu box.

nsIMsgHeaderParser
nsimsgheaderparser defined in comm-central/ mailnews/ mime/ public/ nsimsgheaderparser.idl mailnews/mime/public/nsimsgheaderparser.idlscriptable ???
... line); void extractheaderaddressname(in string line, out string name); void extractheaderaddressnames(in string line, out string usernames); astring makefulladdress(in astring aname, in astring aaddress); string makefulladdressstring(in string aname, in string aaddress); wstring makefulladdresswstring(in wstring name, in wstring addr); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void parseheaderaddresses(in string line, out string names, out string addresses, out pruint32 numaddresses); void parseheaderswitharray(in wstring aline, [array, size_is(count)] out wstring aemailaddresses, [array, size_is(count)] out wstring anames, [array, size_is(count)] out wstring afullnames, [retval] out unsigned long count); void reformatheaderaddresses(in s...
...t char* version).

nsINavHistoryContainerResultNode
toolkit/components/places/public/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable a foundation for the interfaces that provide a description of a query result on the places service that describes a container (which is any kind of grouping, including bookmark folders).
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable a foundation for the interfaces that provide a description of a query result on the places service that describes a container (which is any kind of grouping, including bookmark folders).
...an be populated easily (for example, for bookmark folders).

nsINavHistoryQuery
toolkit/components/places/public/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable encapsulates all the query parameters you're likely to need when building up history ui.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable encapsulates all the query parameters you're likely to need when building up history ui.
...icroseconds since 1 jan 1970.

nsINavHistoryQueryOptions
toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable represents the global options for executing a query.
... toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable represents the global options for executing a query.
... asyncenabled boolean when true, the root container node generated by these options and all of its descendant containers are opened asynchronously if they support doing so.

nsINavHistoryResult
toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable describes the result of a history or bookmark query.
... toolkit/components/places/nsinavhistoryservice.idlscriptable describes the result of a history or bookmark query.
... boolean if true, notifications are suppressed.

nsIOutputStream
xpcom/io/nsioutputstream.idlscriptable an interface describing a writable stream of data.
...nt = len; return ns_ok; } // write the contents of asource into astream, using writesegments // to avoid intermediate buffer copies.
... contents of asource into astream, using writesegments // to avoid intermediate buffer copies.

nsIProperties
xpcom/ds/nsiproperties.idlscriptable this interface provides methods to access a map of named xpcom object values.
...y exists, false if the property does not exist.
...st.

nsIProtocolProxyService
netwerk/base/public/nsiprotocolproxyservice.idlscriptable this interface provides methods to access information about various network proxies.
...to access information about various network proxies.
...locking up the calling thread for a lengthy period of time.

nsIResumableChannel
netwerk/base/public/nsiresumablechannel.idlscriptable this interface is meant to be implemented by the channels that support resuming broken downloads (for example necko's html and ftp channels).
...ce is meant to be implemented by the channels that support resuming broken downloads (for example necko's html and ftp channels).
... in nsiresumableentityid entityid); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void resumeat(in unsigned long long startpos, in acstring entityid); attributes attribute type description entityid acstring the entity id for this uri.

nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML
parser/html/nsiscriptableunescapehtml.idlscriptable this interface is a utility interface that exposes the kind of markup parser behavior that the feed service needs.
... parser/html/nsiscriptableunescapehtml.idlscriptable this interface is a utility interface that exposes the kind of markup parser behavior that the feed service needs.
... parser/html/nsiscriptableunescapehtml.idlscriptable this interface is a utility interface that exposes the kind of markup parser behavior that the feed service needs.

nsIServiceManager
xpcom/components/nsiservicemanager.idlscriptable this interface provides a means to obtain global services in an application.
...ld call nsisupports.release() on the service as they would with any interface pointer.
...e as they would with any interface pointer.

nsISessionStartup
browser/components/sessionstore/nsisessionstartup.idlscriptable handles the session restore process.
... browser/components/sessionstore/nsisessionstartup.idlscriptable handles the session restore process.
....org/browser/sessionstartup;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsisessionstartup); method overview boolean dorestore(); attributes attribute type description sessiontype unsigned long the type of session being restored; this will be one of the session type constants.

nsISimpleEnumerator
xpcom/ds/nsisimpleenumerator.idlscriptable this interface represents an enumeration of xpcom objects and provides methods to access elements sequentially.
... determine whether or not to initiate or continue iteration over the enumerator, though it can be called without subsequent getnext() calls.
...nue iteration over the enumerator, though it can be called without subsequent getnext() calls.

nsISmsRequestManager
nsismsrequestmanager dom/sms/interfaces/nsismsrequestmanager.idlscriptable used to manage sms related requests and notifications for the websms api 1.0 66 introduced gecko 13.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 15.0 (firefox 15.0 / thunderbird 15.0 / seamonkey 2.12) implemented by: @mozilla.org/sms/smsrequestmanager;1.
...gotnextmessage( in long arequestid, in nsidommozsmsmessage amessage ); parameters arequestid a number representing the id of the request.
... of the request.

nsISupportsCString
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for ascii character strings.
... string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data acstring provides access to the native type represented by the object.
... attribute type description data acstring provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsChar
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for single character values (often used to store an ascii character).
...anged in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data char provides access to the native type represented by the object.
...ng tostring(); attributes attribute type description data char provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsDouble
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for double-precision floating-point values.
...ged in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data double provides access to the native type represented by the object.
... tostring(); attributes attribute type description data double provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsFloat
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for single-precision floating-point values.
...nged in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data float provides access to the native type represented by the object.
...g tostring(); attributes attribute type description data float provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsID
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for boolean values.
...ged in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data nsidptr provides access to the native type represented by the object.
...tring(); attributes attribute type description data nsidptr provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsInterfacePointer
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for xpcom objects.
...ttributes attribute type description data nsisupports provides access to the native type represented by the object.
...sisupports provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsPRBool
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for boolean values.
...ged in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data prbool provides access to the native type represented by the object.
... tostring(); attributes attribute type description data prbool provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsPRInt16
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for 16-bit signed integers.
...ed in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data print16 provides access to the native type represented by the object.
...tostring(); attributes attribute type description data print16 provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsPRInt64
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for 64-bit signed integers.
...ed in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data print64 provides access to the native type represented by the object.
...tostring(); attributes attribute type description data print64 provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsPRTime
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for prtime values.
...ged in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data prtime provides access to the native type represented by the object.
... tostring(); attributes attribute type description data prtime provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsPRUint16
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for 16-bit unsigned integers.
...d in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data pruint16 provides access to the native type represented by the object.
...ostring(); attributes attribute type description data pruint16 provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsPRUint32
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for 32-bit unsigned integers.
...d in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data pruint32 provides access to the native type represented by the object.
...ostring(); attributes attribute type description data pruint32 provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsPRUint64
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for 64-bit unsigned integers.
...d in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data pruint64 provides access to the native type represented by the object.
...ostring(); attributes attribute type description data pruint64 provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsPRUint8
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for 8-bit unsigned integers.
...ed in gecko 1.2 method overview string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data pruint8 provides access to the native type represented by the object.
...tostring(); attributes attribute type description data pruint8 provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsPrimitive
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface serves as a base interface for all of the nsisupports* family of interfaces.
...o nsisupportsprint16.
...esponding to nsisupportsprint32.

nsISupportsString
xpcom/ds/nsisupportsprimitives.idlscriptable this interface provides scriptable access for unicode character strings.
... string tostring(); attributes attribute type description data astring provides access to the native type represented by the object.
... attribute type description data astring provides access to the native type represented by the object.

nsISupportsWeakReference
xpcom/base/nsiweakreference.idlscriptable this interface is a factory interface, which produces appropriate instances of nsiweakreference.
... nsiweakreference getweakreference(); methods getweakreference() produces an appropriate instance of nsiweakreference.
... methods getweakreference() produces an appropriate instance of nsiweakreference.

nsITaggingService
toolkit/components/places/public/nsitaggingservice.idlscriptable provides methods to tag/untag a uri, to retrieve uris for a given tag, and to retrieve all tags for a uri.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsitaggingservice.idlscriptable provides methods to tag/untag a uri, to retrieve uris for a given tag, and to retrieve all tags for a uri.
...() this method retrieves all tags set for the given uri.

nsITaskbarTabPreview
widget/public/nsitaskbartabpreview.idlscriptable this interface is used on microsoft windows to control tab preview specific behavior.
... widget/public/nsitaskbartabpreview.idlscriptable this interface is used on microsoft windows to control tab preview specific behavior.
... widget/public/nsitaskbartabpreview.idlscriptable this interface is used on microsoft windows to control tab preview specific behavior.

nsITransferable
widget/nsitransferable.idlscriptable a container for typed data that can be transferred from one place or owner to another, possibly involving format conversion.
...e (\n), then the title of the page.
....

nsIURL
netwerk/base/public/nsiurl.idlscriptable this interface provides convenience methods that further break down the path portion of nsiuri.
...y on this to be a definite file.
...rs may be escaped.

nsIWeakReference
xpcom/base/nsiweakreference.idlscriptable this interface represents a proxy for an xpcom object.
...g nsiweakreference in the first place.
...ueryreferent( in nsiidref uuid, [iid_is(uuid), retval] out nsqiresult result ); parameters uuid the uuid of the requested interface.

nsIWebNavigation
docshell/base/nsiwebnavigation.idlscriptable defines an interface for navigating the web.
...ate to a new location, stop or restart an in process load, or determine where the object has previously gone.
... stop or restart an in process load, or determine where the object has previously gone.

nsIWebNavigationInfo
docshell/base/nsiwebnavigationinfo.idlscriptable exposes a way to get information on the capabilities of gecko web navigation objects.
... docshell/base/nsiwebnavigationinfo.idlscriptable exposes a way to get information on the capabilities of gecko web navigation objects.
... docshell/base/nsiwebnavigationinfo.idlscriptable exposes a way to get information on the capabilities of gecko web navigation objects.

nsIWebProgress
but the relationship may exist in some implementations.
...x00000020 receive nsiwebprogresslistener.onstatuschange() events.
...rogresslistener.onstatuschange() events.

nsIWindowCreator
embedding/base/nsiwindowcreator.idlscriptable a callback interface used by gecko to create new browser windows.
... embedding/base/nsiwindowcreator.idlscriptable a callback interface used by gecko to create new browser windows.
...ication, either mozilla or an embedding app, must provide an implementation of the window watcher component and notify the windowwatcher during application initialization.

nsIWindowMediator
xpfe/appshell/public/nsiwindowmediator.idlscriptable the window mediator is a mozilla component that keeps track of open windows.
...recentwindow() this is a shortcut for simply fetching the first window in front to back order.
... nsidomwindow getouterwindowwithid( in unsigned long long aouterwindowid ); parameters aouterwindowid the id of the outer window, e.g., as obtained by nsidomwindowutils.outerwindowid.

nsIWindowsRegKey
xpcom/ds/nsiwindowsregkey.idlscriptable this interface is designed to provide scriptable access to the windows registry system.
... xpcom/ds/nsiwindowsregkey.idlscriptable this interface is designed to provide scriptable access to the windows registry system.
...amed value as a unicode string.

nsIXFormsModelElement
extensions/xforms/nsixformsmodelelement.idlscriptable defines scriptable methods for manipulating instance data and updating computed and displayed values.
... extensions/xforms/nsixformsmodelelement.idlscriptable defines scriptable methods for manipulating instance data and updating computed and displayed values.
... extensions/xforms/nsixformsmodelelement.idlscriptable defines scriptable methods for manipulating instance data and updating computed and displayed values.

nsIXULSortService
content/xul/templates/public/nsixulsortservice.idlscriptable a service used to sort the contents of a xul widget.
...used to sort the contents of a xul widget.
...tateptr, in nsicontent root, in nsicontent trueparent, in nsicontent container, in nsicontent node, in boolean anotify); native code only!

nsPIPromptService
embedding/components/windowwatcher/public/nspipromptservice.idlscriptable this interface is for the dialog implementers, not for other developers.
...s 8.
...s 10.

Index
he same way as with a browser.
... 20 db views (message lists) mailnews, thunderbird the thread pane (aka message list) is driven by classes that implement nsimsgdbview and inherit from nsmsgdbview.
...of technologies that can seem daunting to new developers.

Accessibility Inspector - Firefox Developer Tools
ts parent.
...bel for" relation to the entry item.
...lied to the item.

Document.open() - Web APIs
("<p>i am a fish</p>"); document.write("<p>the number is 42</p>"); document.close(); notes an automatic document.open() call happens when document.write() is called after the page has loaded.
...te("<p>the number is 42</p>"); document.close(); notes an automatic document.open() call happens when document.write() is called after the page has loaded.
...rs firefox and internet explorer additionally erased all javascript variables, etc., in addition to removing all nodes.

IDBFactory.open() - Web APIs
ndexeddb.open(name, version); parameters name the name of the database.
...atabase.
...mental gecko options object options (version and storage) optional in gecko, since version 26, you can include a non-standard options object as a parameter of idbfactory.open that contains the version number of the database, plus a storage value that specifies whether you want to use persistent or temporary storage.

NameList - Web APIs
obsolete since gecko 10.0 (firefox 10.0 / thunderbird 10.0 / seamonkey 2.7)this feature is obsolete.
... obsolete since gecko 10.0 (firefox 10.0 / thunderbird 10.0 / seamonkey 2.7)this feature is obsolete.
... obsolete since gecko 10.0 (firefox 10.0 / thunderbird 10.0 / seamonkey 2.7)this feature is obsolete.

NavigatorID.product - Web APIs
the value of the navigatorid.product property is always "gecko", in any browser.
... the value of the navigatorid.product property is always "gecko", in any browser.
... the value of the navigatorid.product property is always "gecko", in any browser.

Node.cloneNode() - Web APIs
deep optional* if true, then node and its whole subtree—including text that may be in child text nodes—is also copied.
...(such as the <img> and <input> elements).
... optional deep argument defaults to true.

Using textures in WebGL - Web APIs
that you'll need a secure web server to test and deploy your code.
...pproved images as webgl textures, with a self-contained example.
...ple, when a cross-domain image is drawn on it.

window.dump() - Web APIs
reference mentioned below -- it will always be shown.
...he existing console.
... -console option and use the syntax to redirect stderr and stdout to a file, i.e.: firefox > console.txt 2>&1 if you would like the console messages to appear in the console you used to launch the application, you can use the gecko console redirector.

Obsolete features - Web APIs
this page lists the obsolete windowfeatures parameter of window.open function.
... this page lists the obsolete windowfeatures parameter of window.open function.
...are not visible, nor accessible when fullscreen is enabled in msie 5.x.

Window.pkcs11 - Web APIs
obsolete since gecko 29 (firefox 29 / thunderbird 29 / seamonkey 2.26)this feature is obsolete.
...monkey 2.26)this feature is obsolete.
...it may still work in some browsers, its use is discouraged since it could be removed at any time.

XMLHttpRequest.multipart - Web APIs
non-standard this feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track.
... non-standard this feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track.
... non-standard this feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track.

appearance (-moz-appearance, -webkit-appearance) - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
the appearance css property is used to display an element using platform-native styling, based on the operating system's theme.
... a github repository.
...ce: textfield; /* "compat-auto" values, which have the same effect as 'auto' */ appearance: button; appearance: searchfield; appearance: textarea; appearance: push-button; appearance: slider-horizontal; appearance: checkbox; appearance: radio; appearance: square-button; appearance: menulist; appearance: listbox; appearance: meter; appearance: progress-bar; /* partial list of available values in gecko */ -moz-appearance: scrollbarbutton-up; -moz-appearance: button-bevel; /* partial list of available values in webkit/blink (as well as gecko and edge) */ -webkit-appearance: media-mute-button; -webkit-appearance: caret; values standard keywords value demo browser description none div{ color: black; -moz-appearance:none; -webkit-appearance:none; appear...

image-orientation - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
s on the <img> and/or <picture> elements, with the possible exception of from-image.
...d flip it horizontally */ image-orientation: flip; /* no rotation, only applies a horizontal flip */ syntax values none default initial value.
... default initial value.

Introduction to HTML5 - Developer guides
html5 is the fifth revision and newest version of the html standard.
...ovide not only rich media support but also enhance support for creating web applications that can interact with users, their local data, and servers more easily and effectively than was previously possible.
...rs, their local data, and servers more easily and effectively than was previously possible.

SVG documentation index - SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics
he tag: 6 namespaces crash course svg, xml as an xml dialect, svg is namespaced.
...the latter may be described in a later section of the tutorial, while we will focus completely on the first part: bringing text into an svg image.
...0.0", "").

SVG as an Image - SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics
svg images can be used as an image format, in a number of contexts.
... svg images can be used as an image format, in a number of contexts.
...of contexts.

Index - XSLT: Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
send both the source and the stylesheet with a xml mime type, text/xml or application/xml.
...t defaults to ascending if the parameter is empty (the first time the sorting happens, as there is no value for it in the xslt file).
...ple will load an xml file and apply a xsl transformation on it.

Transforming XML with XSLT - XSLT: Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
t is an ideal mechanism for delivering such presentation versions of xml content.
...ox incorporates within itself all of the mechanisms needed to process both original xml documents and the specialized stylesheets used to style and lay them out for html display, reducing server load with client-side processing.
...resent, gecko (the layout engine behind firefox) supports two forms of xml stylesheets.

IsDefaultNamespace - Archive of obsolete content
the following is a snippet to get isdefaultnamespace() supported across other browsers.
... the following is a snippet to get isdefaultnamespace() supported across other browsers.

JavaScript Debugger Service - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 33 (firefox 33 / thunderbird 33 / seamonkey 2.30) this feature is obsolete.
... obsolete since gecko 33 (firefox 33 / thunderbird 33 / seamonkey 2.30) this feature is obsolete.

LookupNamespaceURI - Archive of obsolete content
here is an implementation of node.lookupnamespaceuri which should work cross-browser.
... here is an implementation of node.lookupnamespaceuri which should work cross-browser.

LookupPrefix - Archive of obsolete content
here is an implementation of lookupprefix which should work cross-browser.
... here is an implementation of lookupprefix which should work cross-browser.

Progress Listeners - Archive of obsolete content
p an external reference to your object to ensure that it stays in memory.
...ject to ensure that it stays in memory.

getAttributeNS - Archive of obsolete content
as some browsers do not support getattributens, the following might be used to work on them as well.
... as some browsers do not support getattributens, the following might be used to work on them as well.

Chapter 2: Technologies used in developing extensions - Archive of obsolete content
ed up in xml and html.
...nts of the html document by manipulating strings, but using the dom makes it possible to manipulate xml documents in a way that better matches javascript's object-oriented nature.

MozOrientation - Archive of obsolete content
warning: this experimental api was removed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3), when support for the standard deviceorientationevent was implemented.
...not moving.

Same-origin policy for file: URIs - Archive of obsolete content
in gecko 1.8 or earlier, any two file: uris are considered to be same-origin.
... in gecko 1.8 or earlier, any two file: uris are considered to be same-origin.

Source code directories overview - Archive of obsolete content
ment for a new mozilla developer to start learning about the mozilla code base.
...indow real estate" among all the pieces of content.

Download Manager preferences - Archive of obsolete content
there are several preferences used by the download manager.
...ager.showalertoncomplete a boolean value that indicates whether or not an alert should be shown when downloads complete.

FAQ - Archive of obsolete content
he divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps.
...ures to the web itself, like support for offline data storage and access to 3d graphics hardware, that will be available to web applications in both prism and firefox.

XML in Mozilla - Archive of obsolete content
g xml documents with scripts through dom serializing xml dom trees to javascript object trees (jxon) other supported xml w3c recommendations specification or technology documentation xhtml w3c recommendation xml base w3c recommendation xlink (simple xlinks only) obsolete since gecko 2.0 w3c recommendation fixptr obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 w3c "proposal" xpointer framework obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 w3c recommendation xpointer element() scheme obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 w3c recommendation xpointer xmlns() scheme obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 w3c recommendation xpointer f...
... fixptr obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 w3c "proposal" xpointer framework obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 w3c recommendation xpointer element() scheme obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 w3c recommendation xpointer xmlns() scheme obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 w3c recommendation xpointer fixptr() scheme obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 this scheme is simply a wrapper for fixptr xpointer xpath1() scheme obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 internet-draft document.load(), document.async part of dom level 3 load & save module, a w3c working draft xhtml we have reasonable xhtml support, most things should work.

Properties - Archive of obsolete content
parts of this page show the use of the xpinstall api.
...eupdate("http://webserver/argstest.xpi?argument_string") will result in the value of install.arguments being argument_string #).

XTech 2006 Presentations - Archive of obsolete content
ications.
...lient and web application development with mozilla xulrunner (open office format) - benjamin smedberg this presentation demonstrates the convergence of rich-client and web application development and discuss application deployment using mozilla xulrunner.

A XUL Bestiary - Archive of obsolete content
chrome as an integrated, dynamic thing in some way divorced from the "appcore" is realized in the use of the chrome url to point to chunks of xul and their related files.
...anges to the overall look of an application.

alwaysopenpopup - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home alwaysopenpopup obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean note: applies to: thunderbird and seamonkeyif true, the autocomplete popup will be displayed even when there are no matches.
... « xul reference home alwaysopenpopup obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean note: applies to: thunderbird and seamonkeyif true, the autocomplete popup will be displayed even when there are no matches.

autoFillAfterMatch - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home autofillaftermatch obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if set to true, the entire text of the best match will be displayed at the end of the input.
... « xul reference home autofillaftermatch obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if set to true, the entire text of the best match will be displayed at the end of the input.

emptytext - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home emptytext deprecated since gecko 2 type: string a string that appears in the textbox when it has no value.
... « xul reference home emptytext deprecated since gecko 2 type: string a string that appears in the textbox when it has no value.

ontextcommand - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home ontextcommand obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: script code note: applies to: thunderbird, seamonkeythis event handler is called when a result is selected for the textbox.
... « xul reference home ontextcommand obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: script code note: applies to: thunderbird, seamonkeythis event handler is called when a result is selected for the textbox.

ontextrevert - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home ontextrevert obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: script code note: applies to: thunderbird, seamonkey this event handler is called when the user presses escape to revert the textbox to its original uncompleted value.
... « xul reference home ontextrevert obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: script code note: applies to: thunderbird, seamonkey this event handler is called when the user presses escape to revert the textbox to its original uncompleted value.

sizemode - Archive of obsolete content
persisted sizemode attribute wouldn't be minimized.
...this attribute does not change the window state.

textbox.autoFill - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home autofill obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean note: applies to: thunderbird and seamonkeyif set to true, the best match will be filled into the textbox as the user types.
... « xul reference home autofill obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean note: applies to: thunderbird and seamonkeyif set to true, the best match will be filled into the textbox as the user types.

textbox.disableAutocomplete - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home disableautocomplete obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if true, the autocomplete behavior will be disabled.
... « xul reference home disableautocomplete obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if true, the autocomplete behavior will be disabled.

textbox.disablehistory - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home disablehistory obsolete since gecko 2.0 type: boolean note: applies to: thunderbird and seamonkeyif false, an arrow button will appear on the end of the textbox which will open a dropdown menu of all available results.
...lete since gecko 2.0 type: boolean note: applies to: thunderbird and seamonkeyif false, an arrow button will appear on the end of the textbox which will open a dropdown menu of all available results.

textbox.forceComplete - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home forcecomplete obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if true, the textbox will be filled in with the best match when it loses the focus.
... « xul reference home forcecomplete obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if true, the textbox will be filled in with the best match when it loses the focus.

textbox.ignoreBlurWhileSearching - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home ignoreblurwhilesearching obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if true, blur events are ignored while searching, which means that the autocomplete popup will not disappear.
... « xul reference home ignoreblurwhilesearching obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if true, blur events are ignored while searching, which means that the autocomplete popup will not disappear.

textbox.minResultsForPopup - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home minresultsforpopup obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: integer the minimum number of results that must be returned for the popup to be displayed.
... « xul reference home minresultsforpopup obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: integer the minimum number of results that must be returned for the popup to be displayed.

textbox.showCommentColumn - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home showcommentcolumn obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if true, a comment column appears in the popup.
... « xul reference home showcommentcolumn obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if true, a comment column appears in the popup.

textbox.tabScrolling - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home tabscrolling obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if true, the user may cycle through the results list by pressing the tab key.
... « xul reference home tabscrolling obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean if true, the user may cycle through the results list by pressing the tab key.

appendNotification - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home appendnotification( label , value , image , priority , buttons, eventcallback ) return type: element create a new notification and display it.
... property must also be set to "menu", or "menu-button".

Panels - Archive of obsolete content
er to prevent the previously focused element from being refocused.
...ally, only the latter would be set if needed.

boxObject - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference boxobject type: nsiboxobject this property is available for elements that are derived from boxes, which is most displayable xul elements.
... « xul reference boxobject type: nsiboxobject this property is available for elements that are derived from boxes, which is most displayable xul elements.

documentCharsetInfo - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference documentcharsetinfo obsolete since gecko 12.0 type: nsidocumentcharsetinfo this read-only property contains the nsidocumentcharsetinfo object for the document which is used to handle which character set should be used to display the document.
... « xul reference documentcharsetinfo obsolete since gecko 12.0 type: nsidocumentcharsetinfo this read-only property contains the nsidocumentcharsetinfo object for the document which is used to handle which character set should be used to display the document.

emptyText - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference emptytext deprecated since gecko 2 type: string gets and sets a string that appears in the textbox when it has no value.
... « xul reference emptytext deprecated since gecko 2 type: string gets and sets a string that appears in the textbox when it has no value.

Features of a Window - Archive of obsolete content
ever elements were added to a window, the window's width expanded to fit the new elements.
...window, the window's width expanded to fit the new elements.

Using nsIXULAppInfo - Archive of obsolete content
starting with mozilla/xulrunner 1.8, there now is a way to find out which application, application version, and gecko version your code is running on.
...rvice(components.interfaces.nsixulappinfo); if(appinfo.appbuildid >= "2005093006") { // running on a build after 2005093006 } you shouldn't rely on build ids for releases, as build id might be different for custom build or a localized version of an application.

browser - Archive of obsolete content
todo use the contentwindow.wrappedjsobject to obtain a dom(html) window object currenturi type: nsiuri this read-only property contains the currently loaded url.
...ntains the nsidocshell object for the document.

toolbar - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home [ examples | attributes | properties | methods | related ] a container which typically contains a row of buttons.
... toolbar flag when opening the window with the window interface's open() method loads the specified resource into the browsing context (window, <iframe> or tab) with the specified name.

Getting started with XULRunner - Archive of obsolete content
is what this tutorial will do.
...nner entry point for your application.

XULRunner Hall of Fame - Archive of obsolete content
see also featured mozilla-based applications, many of which use xulrunner.
...bedded to provide automatic search against journal archives, automatic acquisition of bibtex information, and automatic downloading of pdfs.

XUL Application Packaging - Archive of obsolete content
-1234-1234-123456789abc}.
...9abc}.

2006-09-22 - Archive of obsolete content
ble on sept.
... rc1 testing concluded on sept.

2006-10-13 - Archive of obsolete content
11 discussions release process discussion discussion from last week regarding speeding up and automation of the release process continued.
...ion discussion from last week regarding speeding up and automation of the release process continued.

2006-10-20 - Archive of obsolete content
et rid of sparky (a linux build box) and wants to know if there are reasons wy not to do it.
... to know if there are reasons wy not to do it.

2006-11-17 - Archive of obsolete content
not loading with seamonkey a user built seamonkey in debug mode and is currently receiving a "bad request" error on some websites.
...ly builds, instructions and the current list of known regressions on the branch can be found at: http://wiki.mozilla.org/gecko:reflow...ng#quick_links.

2006-09-06 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.tech.xpcom - oct 06-13, 2006 announcements none during this week.
... summary: mozilla.dev.tech.xpcom - oct 06-13, 2006 announcements none during this week.

NPN_GetURLNotify - Archive of obsolete content
« gecko plugin api reference « browser side plug-in api summary requests creation of a new stream with the contents of the specified url; gets notification of the result.
...browser calls npp_urlnotify() after it has finished loading the url.

NPN_ReloadPlugins - Archive of obsolete content
« gecko plugin api reference « browser side plug-in api summary reloads all of the installed plugins.
...unction has the following parameter: reloadpages whether to reload pages.

NPN_UserAgent - Archive of obsolete content
« gecko plugin api reference « browser side plug-in api summary returns the browser's user agent field.
... buffer that contains the user agent field of the browser.

NPP - Archive of obsolete content
« gecko plugin api reference « plug-in side plug-in api summary represents a single instance of a plug-in.
...lds: pdata a value, whose definition is up to the plug-in, that the plug-in can use to store a pointer to an internal data structure associated with the instance; this field isn't modified by the browser.

Using workers in extensions - Archive of obsolete content
b is to update the ticker information that's currently displayed in the status bar, as well as to update the tooltip that appears while the mouse cursor is hovering over the ticker.
...splayed in the status bar, as well as to update the tooltip that appears while the mouse cursor is hovering over the ticker.

Browser Feature Detection - Archive of obsolete content
ent() true true true document.createtextnode() true true true document.createcomment() true true true document.createcdatasection() true false true document.createprocessinginstruction() true false true document.createattribute() true true true document.createentityreference()obsolete since gecko 7 (method present but only returns null: bug 9850) false false document.getelementsbytagname() true true true dom core level 2 support for properties/methods in document name firefox 1.5 ie 6 & 7 opera 8.54 - 9.01 document.doctype true true true document.implementation true true true document.docume...
...ent() true true true document.createtextnode() true true true document.createcomment() true true true document.createcdatasection() true false true document.createprocessinginstruction() true false true document.createattribute() true true true document.createentityreference()obsolete since gecko 7 true false false document.getelementsbytagname() true true true document.importnode() true false true document.createelementns() true false true document.createattributens() true false true document.getelementsbytagnamens() true false true document.getelementbyid() true true true...

Displaying notifications (deprecated) - Archive of obsolete content
this non standard api has been dropped in firefox 22 in favor of the standard api.
... this non standard api has been dropped in firefox 22 in favor of the standard api.

E4X - Archive of obsolete content
ment in a form that feels natural for ecmascript programmers.
... alternative, simpler syntax for accessing xml documents than via dom interfaces.

New in JavaScript 1.7 - Archive of obsolete content
in javascript 1.7 the following features added with javascript 1.7 were not part of an ecma-262 standard at the time.
...nt firefox versions, the implementation is updated to work with semantics as specified in ecmascript edition 6.

Packages - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 16.0 (firefox 16.0 / thunderbird 16.0 / seamonkey 2.13)this feature is obsolete.
... obsolete since gecko 16.0 (firefox 16.0 / thunderbird 16.0 / seamonkey 2.13)this feature is obsolete.

forEach - Archive of obsolete content
be kvalue = o[ k ]; <hr> this page has been the target of a revert war, and so write access to it has been restricted.
...arget of a revert war, and so write access to it has been restricted.

Issues Arising From Arbitrary-Element hover - Archive of obsolete content
ss="nav"> <a href="one.html" class="nav">one</a> | <a href="two.html" class="nav">two</a> | <a href="thr.html" class="nav">three</a> | <a href="fou.html" class="nav">four</a> </td> because the enclosing table cell has a class of nav, the vertical-bar characters will turn red when the user moves the mouse pointer anywhere within the table cell.
...a> | <a href="two.html" class="nav">two</a> | <a href="thr.html" class="nav">three</a> | <a href="fou.html" class="nav">four</a> </td> because the enclosing table cell has a class of nav, the vertical-bar characters will turn red when the user moves the mouse pointer anywhere within the table cell.

Index - Game development
vertex shaders transform shape positions into 3d drawing coordinates.
... games, needscontent, network, p2p, webrtc, data channels the webrtc (web real-time communications) api is primarily known for its support for audio and video communications; however, it also offers peer-to-peer data channels.

Tools for game development - Game development
is is, of course, great for games.
...eat for games.

Firefox OS - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
firefox os is mozilla's mobile operating system, based on linux and firefox's powerful gecko rendering engine.
... firefox os is mozilla's mobile operating system, based on linux and firefox's powerful gecko rendering engine.

Rendering engine - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
a rendering engine is software that draws text and images on the screen.
... a rendering engine is software that draws text and images on the screen.

Request header - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
called request headers in such a context.
...insecure-requests: 1 if-modified-since: mon, 18 jul 2016 02:36:04 gmt if-none-match: "c561c68d0ba92bbeb8b0fff2a9199f722e3a621a" cache-control: max-age=0 strictly speaking, the content-length header in this example is not a request header like the others, but an entity header: post /myform.html http/1.1 host: developer.mozilla.org user-agent: mozilla/5.0 (macintosh; intel mac os x 10.9; rv:50.0) gecko/20100101 firefox/50.0 content-length: 128 learn more technical knowledge list of all http headers ...

MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
arpa arpanet array ascii asynchronous atag attribute b bandwidth base64 baseline beacon bézier curve bidi bigint blink block block (css) block (scripting) block cipher mode of operation boolean boot2gecko bootstrap bounding box breadcrumb brotli browser browsing context buffer c cache cacheable caldav call stack callback function canonical order canvas card sorting carddav caret cdn certificate authority ...
...paint first paint first-class function flex flex container flex item flexbox forbidden header name forbidden response header name fork fragmentainer frame rate (fps) ftp ftu function fuzz testing g gaia garbage collection gecko general header gif gij git global object global scope global variable glyph gonk google chrome gpl gpu graceful degradation grid grid areas grid axis grid cell grid column grid container grid lines grid row ...

Client-Server Overview - Learn web development
but not the actual content itself, which is in the body): get https://developer.mozilla.org/search?q=client+server+overview&topic=apps&topic=html&topic=css&topic=js&topic=api&topic=webdev http/1.1 host: developer.mozilla.org connection: keep-alive pragma: no-cache cache-control: no-cache upgrade-insecure-requests: 1 user-agent: mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 10.0; wow64) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/52.0.2743.116 safari/537.36 accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 referer: https://developer.mozilla.org/ accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch, br accept-charset: iso-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 accept-language: en-us,en;q=0.8,es;q=0.6 cookie: sessionid=6ynxs23n521lu21b1t136rhbv7ezngie; csrftoken=zipujsazv6pcgcbjscj1zu6pqzbfmuat; dwf_section_edi...
...eviously, though the first line identifies this request as a post.

Setting up your own test automation environment - Learn web development
e.
...webdriver page (see the table in the first section.) obviously, some of the browsers are os-specific, but we're going to stick with firefox and chrome, as they are available across all the main oses.

Add-ons
ons.mozilla.org or distribute it yourself how to manage your published extension an enterprise guide for developing and using extensions how to develop themes for firefox firefox developer communities extensions for firefox for android in 2020, mozilla will release a new firefox for android experience.
...veloping and using extensions how to develop themes for firefox firefox developer communities extensions for firefox for android in 2020, mozilla will release a new firefox for android experience.

Android-specific test suites
ther a full build or an artifact build.
... produce an html report.

A bird's-eye view of the Mozilla framework
cuses on the architecture of the overall framework supporting the mozilla application suite, not the architecture of the individual applications themselves.
... mozilla document object model (dom) specifies a logical tree structure for storing ui and document content, and provides an api (application programming interface) for accessing and manipulating the content.

Reviewer Checklist
reaking auto-updates.
...ake sure they are hooked up.

CSS -moz-bool-pref() @supports function
the -moz-bool-pref() @supports condition is available to gecko chrome and ua stylesheets to check if a boolean preference is enabled.
... the -moz-bool-pref() @supports condition is available to gecko chrome and ua stylesheets to check if a boolean preference is enabled.

Chrome-only CSS reference
this page lists css properties that are only available in gecko chrome code (and sometimes in other privileged circumstances, eg.
... select rows and apply styles to tree rows.::-moz-tree-row(hover)the ::-moz-tree-row(hover) css pseudo-class will match an element if the mouse cursor is presently hovering over a tree row.::-moz-tree-separatoractivated by the properties attribute.::-moz-tree-twistyactivated by the properties attribute.css -moz-bool-pref() @supports functionthe -moz-bool-pref() @supports condition is available to gecko chrome and ua stylesheets to check if a boolean preference is enabled.css <display-xul> component</display-xul>firefox supports the following -moz- prefixed xul display values:overflow-clip-boxthe overflow-clip-box css property specifies relative to which box the clipping happens when there is an overflow.

Chrome-only Events reference
this page lists events that are only available in gecko chrome code (and sometimes in other privileged circumstances, eg.
... this page lists events that are only available in gecko chrome code (and sometimes in other privileged circumstances, eg.

HTML parser threading
anning the tail of document.write() data when the parser blocks without parsing the document.write() data to completion.
... on a per-tree op basis.) if the executor isn't reading from a stage, it calls nshtml5parser::parseuntilblocked() to parse potential document.write()-generated data into tree ops.

Extending a Protocol
otocol pwindowglobal { // stuff...
...v); // other stuff already in the file...

Implementing Download Resuming
this document describes how an embedder or other gecko/necko-using application can implement download resuming.
... this document describes how an embedder or other gecko/necko-using application can implement download resuming.

Uplifting a localization from Central to Aurora
file changes added 22 changesets with 23 changes to 46 files (+1 heads) (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge) ok, let's make sure we're not talking relbranches: hg heads --template '{node} {branches}\n' this is printing something like 5131e147fa50c28ec858c7d9fd1ba201ea2a433b 4da525ed77699794c56081791bd46cc85983f6f8 9bc7e6c58fc091c8cd0e8d9e1dbc7e6f592772a7 gecko20b12_2011022218_relbranch 230e99fada602842d9630e673077ef9f1ab34247 gecko20b12pre_20110216_relbranch 41a4357884d7bcc50e69c71014124d3af2482afe comm20b11_20110203_relbranch 2ec6ad14e7168ebeb999b1e8ae10632ae4c9df23 gecko20b11_2011020209_relbranch d68e647ac3c0fee709c13abb0f03fac24a1a5d29 gecko20b11pre_20110126_relbranch 7ff37dc6837669363a51ad3fd2874ac845d312d5 gecko20b10_2011012115_relbranch...
...2d9630e673077ef9f1ab34247 gecko20b12pre_20110216_relbranch 41a4357884d7bcc50e69c71014124d3af2482afe comm20b11_20110203_relbranch 2ec6ad14e7168ebeb999b1e8ae10632ae4c9df23 gecko20b11_2011020209_relbranch d68e647ac3c0fee709c13abb0f03fac24a1a5d29 gecko20b11pre_20110126_relbranch 7ff37dc6837669363a51ad3fd2874ac845d312d5 gecko20b10_2011012115_relbranch 6c31fe9bc065a86aea2223ba48698f18ae7563ad gecko20b9_2011011018_relbranch here you can see that there are two changesets without a branch.

Fonts for Mozilla's MathML engine
iate glyphs for the arabic mathematical alphabetic symbols.
...cambria math dejavu math tex gyre garamond math (under development) latin modern math libertinus math lucida bright math minion math stix math tex gyre bonum math tex gyre pagella math tex gyre schola math tex gyre termes math xits math fira math (sans-serif typeface, under development) gfs neohellenic math (sans-serif typeface) using mathematical fonts on web pages starting with gecko 31.0 (firefox 31.0 / thunderbird 31.0 / seamonkey 2.28), it is now easy to set up the css style (and optional woff fonts) to use on your web site.

MathML Accessibility in Mozilla
this table below provides a list of mathml constructions and how they are read in mozilla applications for various platforms: windows: mathml support is provided by nvda, which actually delegates math reading to the proprietary mathplayer plugin.
...efox 27.0 / thunderbird 27.0 / seamonkey 2.24).

DMD
.mozilla.fennec_$username app will use the wrapper script.
...illa.fennec_$username with the app identifier as appropriate).

Intel Power Gadget
een used in energia, roberto vitillo's tool for systematically measuring differential power usage between different browsers.
...erent browsers.

Leak Gauge
leak gauge is a tool that can be used to detect certain kinds of leaks in gecko, including those involving documents, window objects, and docshells.
... leak gauge is a tool that can be used to detect certain kinds of leaks in gecko, including those involving documents, window objects, and docshells.

Performance
tools apple provides some tools for mac os x that report similar problems to those reported by lsan and valgrind.
...for use with spidermonkey or firefox, because it gets confused by tagged pointers and thinks objects have leaked when they have not (see bug 390944).

Debugging out-of-memory problems
tered.
... browser to crash.

Localization Use Cases
naturally-sounding message, we must know the gender of the subject.
...utral"> now we can translate crash-banner-os2 into polish without sounding like a robot: <crashbanneros2[brandshortname::_gender] { masculine: "{{ brandshortname }} uległ awarii", feminine: "{{ brandshortname }} uległa awarii", neutral: "{{ brandshortname }} uległo awarii" }> this will give us, depending on the current branding, the following messages: firefox os uległ awarii boot2gecko uległo awarii isolation let's look at how the settings app formats sizes.

Multithreading in Necko
warning: the content of this article may be out of date.
... warning: the content of this article may be out of date.

Proxies in Necko
protocol.
... transports using an nsiproxyinfo.

Hacking Tips
ted by other companies and are used as a metric to evaluate how fast javascript engines.
...es.

Garbage collection
is gray during the mark phase if it has been queued for marking.
...a starting point to the gc graph traversal, a root is known to be alive for some external reason (one other than being reachable by some other part of the gc heap.) weak pointer in common cs terminology, a weak pointer is one that doesn't keep the pointed-to value live for gc purposes.

Task graph
after a change to the gecko source code is pushed to version-control, jobs for that change appear on treeherder.
... on others (builds).

XForms Accessibility
intoduction this article provides a quick guide to how accessibility is handled in gecko for xforms..
... intoduction this article provides a quick guide to how accessibility is handled in gecko for xforms..

Accessibility API Implementation Details
these pages contain documentation on mozilla specific implementation details of assistive technology apis.
...ecko-based software.

extIApplication
ute astring the name of the application.
...readonly attribute astring the version number of the application.

Mozilla internal string guide
y prefers utf-8.
...tf-16 for compatibility with js strings and dom string which are potentially-invalid utf-16.

Receiving startup notifications
sometimes it's necessary for xpcom components to receive notifications as to the progress of the application's startup process, so they can start new services at appropriate times, for example.
...pplication loaded and running that the extension manager can then be loaded and handle installing, uninstalling, and updating any installed extensions.

Components.isSuccessCode
the complex task, you would call components.issuccesscode() upon the status code included in the notification.
...upon the status code included in the notification.

Components.utils.Sandbox
eaned up at the same time as the content itself.
...);' + 'var decoded = atob(encoded);'; var options = { "wantglobalproperties": ["atob", "btoa"] } var sandbox = components.utils.sandbox("https://example.org/", options); components.utils.evalinsandbox(sandboxscript, sandbox); console.log(sandbox.encoded); // "sgvsbg8=" console.log(sandbox.decoded); // "hello" wantxhrconstructor this option was removed in gecko version 26.

Components.utils.getWeakReference
ition, just because get() succeeds doesn't mean your object is valid.
...t simply not have been garbage collected yet.

Components.utils.importGlobalProperties
of an object to import, and will be defined on the importing scope's global.
... btoa crypto css fetch file nsidomfile indexeddb nodefilter firefox 60 nsidomnodefilter obsolete since gecko 60 rtcidentityprovider textdecoder textencoder url urlsearchparams xmlhttprequest nsixmlhttprequest obsolete since gecko 60 for string/object in table without a minimum firefox version, it is not exactly known since when it was available, however it is guranteed available from firefox 28 and up.

Components object
utils.lookupmethod looks up a native (i.e.
...pper.

JavaXPCOM
javaxpcom allows for communication between java and xpcom, such that a java application can access xpcom objects, and xpcom can access any java class that implements an xpcom interface.
...luded in xulrunner up through version 1.9.2.

PyXPCOM
pyxpcom allows for communication between python and xpcom, such that a python application can access xpcom objects, and xpcom can access any python class that implements an xpcom interface.
...ed gecko from a python application.

nsresult
a strongly-typed enum used to represent a value returned by an xpcom function; these are typically error or status codes.
...d to represent a value returned by an xpcom function; these are typically error or status codes.

IAccessible2
other-licenses/ia2/accessible2.idlnot scriptable please add a summary to this article.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessible2.idlnot scriptable please add a summary to this article.

IAccessibleAction
other-licenses/ia2/accessibleaction.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to actions that can be executed for accessible objects.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessibleaction.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to actions that can be executed for accessible objects.

IAccessibleApplication
other-licenses/ia2/accessibleapplication.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to the application's name and version information.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessibleapplication.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to the application's name and version information.

IAccessibleComponent
other-licenses/ia2/accessiblecomponent.idlnot scriptable this interface is implemented by any object that can be rendered on the screen.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessiblecomponent.idlnot scriptable this interface is implemented by any object that can be rendered on the screen.

IAccessibleEditableText
other-licenses/ia2/accessibleeditabletext.idlnot scriptable this interface provides clipboard capability to text objects.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessibleeditabletext.idlnot scriptable this interface provides clipboard capability to text objects.

IAccessibleHyperlink
other-licenses/ia2/accessiblehyperlink.idlnot scriptable this interface represents hyperlinks.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessiblehyperlink.idlnot scriptable this interface represents hyperlinks.

IAccessibleHypertext
other-licenses/ia2/accessiblehypertext.idlnot scriptable this interface exposes information about hypertext in a document.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessiblehypertext.idlnot scriptable this interface exposes information about hypertext in a document.

IAccessibleImage
other-licenses/ia2/accessibleimage.idlnot scriptable this interface represents images and icons.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessibleimage.idlnot scriptable this interface represents images and icons.

IAccessibleRelation
other-licenses/ia2/accessiblerelation.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to an object's set of relations.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessiblerelation.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to an object's set of relations.

IAccessibleTable
other-licenses/ia2/accessibletable.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to a two-dimensional table.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessibletable.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to a two-dimensional table.

IAccessibleTable2
other-licenses/ia2/accessibletable2.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to a two-dimensional table.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessibletable2.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to a two-dimensional table.

IAccessibleTableCell
other-licenses/ia2/accessibletablecell.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to the cells of a two-dimensional table.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessibletablecell.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to the cells of a two-dimensional table.

IAccessibleText
other-licenses/ia2/accessibletext.idlnot scriptable a structure containing a substring and the start and end offsets in the enclosing string.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessibletext.idlnot scriptable a structure containing a substring and the start and end offsets in the enclosing string.

IAccessibleValue
other-licenses/ia2/accessiblevalue.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to a single numerical value.
... other-licenses/ia2/accessiblevalue.idlnot scriptable this interface gives access to a single numerical value.

IJSDebugger
js/ductwork/debugger/ijsdebugger.idlscriptable provides the javascript debugger service.
... js/ductwork/debugger/ijsdebugger.idlscriptable provides the javascript debugger service.

amIInstallCallback
toolkit/mozapps/extensions/amiinstalltrigger.idlscriptable a callback function that web pages can implement to be notified when triggered installs complete.
... toolkit/mozapps/extensions/amiinstalltrigger.idlscriptable a callback function that web pages can implement to be notified when triggered installs complete.

imgIDecoderObserver
image/public/imgidecoderobserver.idlscriptable this interface is used both for observing imgidecoder objects and for observing imgirequest objects.
... image/public/imgidecoderobserver.idlscriptable this interface is used both for observing imgidecoder objects and for observing imgirequest objects.

jsdIStackFrame
js/jsd/idl/jsdidebuggerservice.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...n context.

mozIAsyncFavicons
toolkit/components/places/moziasyncfavicons.idlscriptable interface for accessing the favicon service asynchronously.
... toolkit/components/places/moziasyncfavicons.idlscriptable interface for accessing the favicon service asynchronously.

mozIAsyncHistory
toolkit/components/places/moziasynchistory.idlscriptable this interface allows you to add multiple visits to a single url in a batch.
... toolkit/components/places/moziasynchistory.idlscriptable this interface allows you to add multiple visits to a single url in a batch.

mozIPersonalDictionary
extensions/spellcheck/idl/mozipersonaldictionary.idlscriptable this interface represents a personal dictionary.
... extensions/spellcheck/idl/mozipersonaldictionary.idlscriptable this interface represents a personal dictionary.

mozIPlacesAutoComplete
toolkit/components/places/public/moziplacesautocomplete.idlscriptable this interface provides some constants used by the places autocomplete search provider as well as methods to track opened pages for autocomplete purposes.
... toolkit/components/places/public/moziplacesautocomplete.idlscriptable this interface provides some constants used by the places autocomplete search provider as well as methods to track opened pages for autocomplete purposes.

mozIStorageService
storage/public/mozistorageservice.idlscriptable this interface lets you open a mozistorageconnection to a database file, as well as create backups of an unopened database file.
... storage/public/mozistorageservice.idlscriptable this interface lets you open a mozistorageconnection to a database file, as well as create backups of an unopened database file.

mozIStorageVacuumParticipant
/storage/public/mozistoragevacuumparticipant.idlscriptable components can implement this interface to provide information to allow a database to be periodically vacuumed by the storage service.
... /storage/public/mozistoragevacuumparticipant.idlscriptable components can implement this interface to provide information to allow a database to be periodically vacuumed by the storage service.

mozIThirdPartyUtil
netwerk/base/public/mozithirdpartyutil.idlscriptable utility functions for determining whether a given uri, channel, or window hierarchy is third party with respect to a known uri.
... netwerk/base/public/mozithirdpartyutil.idlscriptable utility functions for determining whether a given uri, channel, or window hierarchy is third party with respect to a known uri.

mozIVisitInfo
toolkit/components/places/moziasynchistory.idlscriptable this interface provides additional info for a visit.
... toolkit/components/places/moziasynchistory.idlscriptable this interface provides additional info for a visit.

nsIAbstractWorker
dom/interfaces/threads/nsidomworkers.idlscriptable this interface is an abstract interface used to implement the web workers architecture.
... dom/interfaces/threads/nsidomworkers.idlscriptable this interface is an abstract interface used to implement the web workers architecture.

nsIAccessible
« gecko at interfaces page summary the nsiaccessible interface is a cross-platform interface that supports platform-specific accessibility apis like msaa and atk.
...sible tree.

nsIAccessibleCaretMoveEvent
accessible/public/nsiaccessibleevent.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibleevent.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsIAccessibleImage
accessible/public/nsiaccessibleimage.idlscriptable this interface allows in-process accessibility clients to retrieve information about an image.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibleimage.idlscriptable this interface allows in-process accessibility clients to retrieve information about an image.

nsIAccessibleProvider
accessible/public/nsiaccessibleprovider.idlscriptable used to link element and accessible object.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibleprovider.idlscriptable used to link element and accessible object.

nsIAccessibleScrollType
accessible/public/nsiaccessibletypes.idlscriptable these constants control the scrolling of an object or substring into a window.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibletypes.idlscriptable these constants control the scrolling of an object or substring into a window.

nsIAccessibleStateChangeEvent
accessible/public/nsiaccessibleevent.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibleevent.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsIAccessibleTableCell
accessible/public/nsiaccessibletable.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibletable.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsIAccessibleTableChangeEvent
accessible/public/nsiaccessibleevent.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibleevent.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsIAccessibleTextChangeEvent
accessible/public/nsiaccessibleevent.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... accessible/public/nsiaccessibleevent.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsIAccessibleTreeCache
obsolete since gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0)this feature is obsolete.
...bsolete since gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0)this feature is obsolete.

nsIAnnotationObserver
toolkit/components/places/public/nsiannotationservice.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsiannotationservice.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsIAnnotationService
toolkit/components/places/public/nsiannotationservice.idlscriptable stores arbitrary data about a web page.
... toolkit/components/places/public/nsiannotationservice.idlscriptable stores arbitrary data about a web page.

nsIApplicationCache
netwerk/base/public/nsiapplicationcache.idlscriptable this interface represents an application cache, which stores resources for offline use.
... netwerk/base/public/nsiapplicationcache.idlscriptable this interface represents an application cache, which stores resources for offline use.

nsIApplicationCacheChannel
netwerk/base/public/nsiapplicationcachechannel.idlscriptable this interface is implemented by communication channels that support application caches.
... netwerk/base/public/nsiapplicationcachechannel.idlscriptable this interface is implemented by communication channels that support application caches.

nsIApplicationCacheContainer
netwerk/base/public/nsiapplicationcachecontainer.idlscriptable this interface is used by objects that can be associated with an application cache.
... netwerk/base/public/nsiapplicationcachecontainer.idlscriptable this interface is used by objects that can be associated with an application cache.

nsIApplicationCacheNamespace
netwerk/base/public/nsiapplicationcache.idlscriptable this interface represents an application cache namespace.
... netwerk/base/public/nsiapplicationcache.idlscriptable this interface represents an application cache namespace.

nsIApplicationCacheService
netwerk/base/public/nsiapplicationcacheservice.idlscriptable this interface manages the set of application cache groups that manage offline resources for web applications.
... netwerk/base/public/nsiapplicationcacheservice.idlscriptable this interface manages the set of application cache groups that manage offline resources for web applications.

nsIAsyncVerifyRedirectCallback
netwerk/base/public/nsiasyncverifyredirectcallback.idlscriptable implement this interface to receive a callback that lets you know whether an asynchronous redirect was verified or vetoed.
... netwerk/base/public/nsiasyncverifyredirectcallback.idlscriptable implement this interface to receive a callback that lets you know whether an asynchronous redirect was verified or vetoed.

nsIAuthInformation
netwerk/base/public/nsiauthinformation.idlscriptable a object that holds authentication information.
... netwerk/base/public/nsiauthinformation.idlscriptable a object that holds authentication information.

nsIAuthPrompt2
netwerk/base/public/nsiauthprompt2.idlscriptable an interface allowing to prompt for a username and password.
... netwerk/base/public/nsiauthprompt2.idlscriptable an interface allowing to prompt for a username and password.

nsIAuthPromptAdapterFactory
netwerk/base/public/nsiauthpromptadapterfactory.idlscriptable an interface for wrapping nsiauthprompt interfaces to make them usable via an nsiauthprompt2 interface.
... netwerk/base/public/nsiauthpromptadapterfactory.idlscriptable an interface for wrapping nsiauthprompt interfaces to make them usable via an nsiauthprompt2 interface.

nsIAuthPromptCallback
netwerk/base/public/nsiauthpromptcallback.idlscriptable interface for callback methods for the asynchronous nsiauthprompt2 method.
... netwerk/base/public/nsiauthpromptcallback.idlscriptable interface for callback methods for the asynchronous nsiauthprompt2 method.

nsIAutoCompleteListener
xpfe/components/autocomplete/public/nsiautocompletelistener.idlscriptable this interface is deprecated.
...sisupports last changed in gecko 1.7 method overview void onautocomplete(in nsiautocompleteresults result, in autocompletestatus status); void onstatus(in wstring statustext); attributes attribute type description param nsisupports private parameter used by the autocomplete widget.

nsIBadCertListener2
security/manager/ssl/public/nsibadcertlistener2.idlscriptable this interface is used to is report a broken ssl status.
... security/manager/ssl/public/nsibadcertlistener2.idlscriptable this interface is used to is report a broken ssl status.

nsIBlocklistPrompt
xpcom/system/nsiblocklistservice.idlscriptable this interface is used, if available, by the default implementation of nsiblocklistservice to display a confirmation user interface to the user before blocking extensions or plugins.
... xpcom/system/nsiblocklistservice.idlscriptable this interface is used, if available, by the default implementation of nsiblocklistservice to display a confirmation user interface to the user before blocking extensions or plugins.

nsIBrowserBoxObject
layout/xul/base/public/nsibrowserboxobject.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...browserboxobject.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsIBrowserSearchService
netwerk/base/public/nsibrowsersearchservice.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... netwerk/base/public/nsibrowsersearchservice.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsICancelable
netwerk/base/public/nsicancelable.idlscriptable this interface provides a means to cancel an operation that is in progress.
... netwerk/base/public/nsicancelable.idlscriptable this interface provides a means to cancel an operation that is in progress.

nsICategoryManager
xpcom/components/nsicategorymanager.idlscriptable this interface provides access to a data structure that holds a list of name-value pairs, called categories, where each value is a list of strings.
...portion of this snippet disables plugins from loading in the future, it does not user the category manager but it is included for completness of the example.

nsIChannel
netwerk/base/nsichannel.idlscriptable this interface allows clients to construct 'get' requests for specific protocols, and manage them in a uniform way.
...set before the channel has been opened provides a hint to the channel on what the charset should be.

nsIChannelPolicy
netwerk/base/public/nsichannelpolicy.idlscriptable a container for policy information to be used during channel creation.
... netwerk/base/public/nsichannelpolicy.idlscriptable a container for policy information to be used during channel creation.

nsIChromeFrameMessageManager
content/base/public/nsimessagemanager.idlscriptable handles loading of content in a remote chrome frame.
... content/base/public/nsimessagemanager.idlscriptable handles loading of content in a remote chrome frame.

nsIChromeRegistry
chrome/public/nsichromeregistry.idlscriptable provides access to the chrome registry; you can use this to get information about chrome documents that have been registered.
...erits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/chrome/chrome-registry;1 as a service: var chromeregistry = components.classes["@mozilla.org/chrome/chrome-registry;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsichromeregistry); method overview void canonify(in nsiuri achromeurl); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void checkfornewchrome(); nsiuri convertchromeurl(in nsiuri achromeurl); boolean wrappersenabled(in nsiuri auri); violates the xpcom interface guidelines constants constant value description none 0 partial 1 full 2 methods canonify() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 ...

nsIClipboardDragDropHooks
widget/public/nsiclipboarddragdrophooks.idlscriptable interfaces for overriding the built-in drag, drop, copy, and paste implementations in the content area and editors.
...occur.

nsICommandLine
toolkit/components/commandlines/public/nsicommandline.idlscriptable represents the command line used to invoke a xul application.
... toolkit/components/commandlines/public/nsicommandline.idlscriptable represents the command line used to invoke a xul application.

nsICommandLineHandler
toolkit/components/commandlines/public/nsicommandlinehandler.idlscriptable handles arguments on the command line of a xul application.
... toolkit/components/commandlines/public/nsicommandlinehandler.idlscriptable handles arguments on the command line of a xul application.

nsIContainerBoxObject
layout/xul/base/public/nsicontainerboxobject.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
... layout/xul/base/public/nsicontainerboxobject.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsIContentPrefObserver
dom/interfaces/base/nsicontentprefservice.idlscriptable this interface allows code to easily watch for changes to the values of content preferences.
... dom/interfaces/base/nsicontentprefservice.idlscriptable this interface allows code to easily watch for changes to the values of content preferences.

nsIContentSecurityPolicy
content/base/public/nsicontentsecuritypolicy.idlscriptable describes an xpcom component used to model and enforce content security policies.
... content/base/public/nsicontentsecuritypolicy.idlscriptable describes an xpcom component used to model and enforce content security policies.

nsIContentView
content/base/public/nsiframeloader.idlscriptable represents a scrollable content view whose contents are actually drawn by a separate process; this is part of the electrolysis multi-process support framework.
... content/base/public/nsiframeloader.idlscriptable represents a scrollable content view whose contents are actually drawn by a separate process; this is part of the electrolysis multi-process support framework.

nsIControllers
content/xul/document/public/nsicontrollers.idlscriptable represents a list of nsicontroller elements.
...trollerforcommand(in string command); unsigned long getcontrollerid(in nsicontroller controller); void insertcontrollerat(in unsigned long index, in nsicontroller controller); void removecontroller(in nsicontroller controller); nsicontroller removecontrollerat(in unsigned long index); attributes attribute type description commanddispatcher nsidomxulcommanddispatcher obsolete since gecko 1.9 methods appendcontroller() adds a controller to the end of the list.

nsIConverterInputStream
xpcom/io/nsiconverterinputstream.idlscriptable a unichar input stream that wraps an input stream.
... xpcom/io/nsiconverterinputstream.idlscriptable a unichar input stream that wraps an input stream.

nsIConverterOutputStream
xpcom/io/nsiconverteroutputstream.idlscriptable this interface allows writing strings to a stream, doing automatic character encoding conversion.
... xpcom/io/nsiconverteroutputstream.idlscriptable this interface allows writing strings to a stream, doing automatic character encoding conversion.

nsICookiePermission
the nsicookiepermission interface is used to test for cookie permissions netwerk/cookie/nsicookiepermission.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.
...ch are not directly used by any methods on this interface, but are nevertheless convenient to define here.

nsICookieStorage
obsolete since gecko 2 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.
...nce gecko 2 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.

nsICrashReporter
xpcom/system/nsicrashreporter.idlscriptable provides access to crash reporting functionality.
... xpcom/system/nsicrashreporter.idlscriptable provides access to crash reporting functionality.

nsICryptoHMAC
netwerk/base/public/nsicryptohmac.idlscriptable this interface provides hmac signature algorithms.
... netwerk/base/public/nsicryptohmac.idlscriptable this interface provides hmac signature algorithms.

nsICryptoHash
netwerk/base/public/nsicryptohash.idlscriptable this interface can be used to compute a cryptographic hash function of some data.
...sicryptohash.idlscriptable this interface can be used to compute a cryptographic hash function of some data.

nsICycleCollectorListener
xpcom/base/nsicyclecollectorlistener.idlscriptable interface to pass to the cycle collector to get information about the cycle collector graph while it is being built.
... xpcom/base/nsicyclecollectorlistener.idlscriptable interface to pass to the cycle collector to get information about the cycle collector graph while it is being built.

nsIDOMClientRect
dom/interfaces/base/nsidomclientrect.idlscriptable represents a rectangular box.
... dom/interfaces/base/nsidomclientrect.idlscriptable represents a rectangular box.

nsIDOMFile
rom a file submitted to a form using the input type "file".
...g drag and drop.

nsIDOMFileException
the nsidomfileexception interface represents exceptions that can be raised by calls to the methods in the nsidomfile interface.
... the nsidomfileexception interface represents exceptions that can be raised by calls to the methods in the nsidomfile interface.

nsIDOMFileList
the nsidomfilelist interface contains a list of nsidomfile objects describing the files selected by the user for a "file" input field on a web form.
... the nsidomfilelist interface contains a list of nsidomfile objects describing the files selected by the user for a "file" input field on a web form.