Posted by
Neil – January 29, 2010
Just came across a cracking little bug in the old FCKEditor 2 code that we use on a number of applications. In the last few days we’ve noticed that it’s just randomly stopped working in Firefox across all applications that use the editor.
After doing a little digging, this was tracked down to a 2010 related bug, and the fact that the newest versions of Firefox were released this calendar year. Take a look at my user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
In the FCKEditor code, it’s checking to see if I have a compatible browser by checking the date of release of the Firefox, with the following code:
stResult = reFind( "gecko/(200[3-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])", sAgent, 1, true );
You’ll notice that this regex doesn’t work particulary well for anything that might start with 2010, so you need to update your regex to the following:
stResult = reFind( "gecko/(20[0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])", sAgent, 1, true );
Once you’re done and dusted, this should give you another 10 years of happy FCKEditor usage (if you’re that committed).
UPDATE: After some more digging it would appear that this is only a ColdFusion related issue, as it is the only library to use a regex to find the date, all of the others use a substring style extraction of the date.
Posted by
Neil – January 26, 2010
It’s a little known fact that you can CTRL-TAB between tabs in Firefox (in a similar way to ALT-TAB on your Windows). What’s even more unknown is that you can set up Firefox to give you the previews in Firefox too.
In order to do this pop into your address bar and go to about:config. After telling Firefox you like living dangerously, find
browser.ctrlTab.previews
and set it to true.
Once you’ve done this, CTRL-TAB and you’ll be able to preview and search all your open tabs.
Posted by
Neil – July 11, 2006
Yup, it's out and about. Get it while it's hot.
Posted by
Neil – May 16, 2006
If you're anything like me you tinker with your Firefox nearly every day of the week trying out new extensions, trying new settings and just generally mucking about. Also, you'll find that every now and then your install just isn't as fresh as it once was. Well, I cleaned up my FF profile this morning and started afresh again, making using the browser all nice and shiny again. How did I do this? Well here goes:
1. Find your profile folder (should be in C:\Documents and Settings\#Windows Username#\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\)
2. Make a copy of the profile folder, then delete the original. Also delete the profiles.cfg and pluginreg.dat files in the Firefox Folder (up above profiles)), then run Firefox and create a new profile on prompt.
3. Copy from your original profile folder the following files/folders:
- bookmarks.html (Bookmarks)
- cookies.txt (Cookies)
- cert8.db, secmod.db, key3.db and signons.txt (Saved Passwords)
- search.rdf file and searchplugins directory (Search)
4. Go to addons.mozilla.org and re-install your extensions. You'll probably find yourself installing less that you had before.
Hopefully once you have done this you should have a profile resembling what you had, but without all the clutter. A couple of minor tweaks later on and you should be back exactly how you were.
Posted by
Neil – May 2, 2006
It's out.. get it while it's hot.
Posted by
Neil – April 14, 2006
Just a quickie to note that Firefox 1.5.0.2 has popped up over on Mozilla.org. Obviously, if you are using 1.5+ then this will automatically update. If you aren't then I suggest you go download it now.
