Tag Archive | "Firefox"

XMLHttpRequest – Preventing Caching of Data

XMLHttpRequest – Preventing Caching of Data

Recently I discovered that in my Firefox extension CraigZilla, results were being cached by Firefox. The typical approach to disabling caching is to append  a string on to the end of the URL that will be unique each time you fetch it.  The most typical method is to add a timestamp, which I do often [...] [...more]

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Firefox – Removing the Star ‘Bookmark This Page’ button

Firefox – Removing the Star ‘Bookmark This Page’ button

For some reason with the release of Firefox 3, Mozilla decided to add a star icon in the location bar that allows you to bookmark the current page. I click on this so-called feature all the time by accident while trying to get to the location bar history dropdown menu. Eventually I decided I had [...] [...more]

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Search bar plugin for Mozilla Firefox

Search bar plugin for Mozilla Firefox

In most Firefox layouts, there is a search bar in the upper-right corner that allows you to type in a term and use GET to make a search request. At work we have a ticket system with ticket IDs and I frequently need to go to the home page, enter the ticket ID, and then [...] [...more]

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