Getting confirm dialog text from FF4 programatically - javascript

I'm trying to find a way to get the text of the new confirm dialogs in Firefox 4 programatically. So far by hooking into the main dom document I can read the XULElements and click OK and Cancel but I can't seem to find anything containing the text that is shown by the dialog. Does anyone know of a way how to do this either through javascript or some other means? The dialog is open at the time so that's something to take into consideration.

After enough time I have figure it out, to do so you set document to the firefox DOM that contains xul elements and use document.activeElement.parentNode.parentNode.textContent to get the value of the open confirm dialog.

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Display firefox extension popup programmatically

I'm developing a Firefox extension and I've been looking for a way to display it automatically (with JavaScript) under certain conditions, as if the user had clicked on the icon.
I know it is possible because some extensions already do it (like Wanteeed, see image below)
I have my javascript getting all the informations that I want, I know when my condition is okay the only thing that I need now is a way to make my little extension's 'popup' magically appear
I've looked for answers as I could, I hope that I didn't miss an already existing post, sorry if I did and thank you very much for your answers !
Are you using the latest WebExtensions format? If so, then you can't just open the popup page programmatically, this is for security reasons. From the MDN web docs:
When the user clicks the button, the popup is shown. When the user clicks anywhere outside the popup, the popup is closed. The popup can be closed programmatically by calling window.close() from a script running in the popup. However, you can't open the popup programmatically from an extension's JavaScript: it can only be opened in response to a user action.
An alternative is to use content scripts to append a position:fixed div to the current page, and then to style it with CSS to match the popup style. This is probably what the extension you referenced is doing.

Scripts not running in FF and Chrome

I am using javascript alert message to show validation messages. In Firefox and Chrome first time working fine,second time for same alert same its asking message like "Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs" with check box. After select that check box, Next time button click scripts not executing. How to block that message?
Use a JavaScript Modal popup! eg. JQuery UI Modal Popup
This is a browser matter, so you as a developer cant do anything with that behavior.
Here is a similar question
already answered here
unfortunately you can't be sure that user has his browser settings with javascript alerts popup on ( that called with 'alert('...') function').
You should use javascript dialog plygin instead.
For example:
http://fancybox.net/
its a browser property for the client,if he doesnt want to view these alerts. you cant remove that check box and message.
if this message is shown then what the problem, leave it for the user.
why you want to force him to view these alerts,
it must be user's wish to see or not see these alerts.
for better user experience and for your purpose you can use fancybox or facebox
fancy box fiddler check this http://jsfiddle.net/BJNYr/

How to disable maximize,mimimize and close button for a new window open

I am using window.open() method to open a page as a pop-up window for a link button click event.
But the poup-up window is having minimize,maximize,close(x) button.
I dont want those buttons. How can remove these buttons?
This is the method i am using,
window.open(url,"Link","toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menubar=0,titlebar=no,scrollbars=1,resizable=0,width=450,height=310,left=500,top=350");
Tell me how can do this.
Regards,
Chirag Jain.
You can't.
If you want a popup style window without full window decorations you'd have to create a new overlay <div> on top of the existing content and fill that with content, perhaps using an <iframe>.
You can't do it from javascript alone. Think about it, if you could, then people could put it into code on web-pages and cause other people's computers to open windows they couldn't easily close.
Instead you'll have to look for an answer specific to whichever browser you're using to host this application, and change it on the computers of your users appropriately. Even then though I don't think you'll be in luck (with Firefox for example, I can see how to get rid of them on all browser windows, but not on just one).

How to not wait for something with Watir-Webdriver

So I'm writing a watir-webdriver script, and my app is using javascript to present a modal window that I want to interact with. When I click the element that presents the modal window, watir-webdriver just sits there until eventually it times out and i see a Timeout::Error on the console window. This is before attempting to interact with the new window at all. I'm assuming it's polling the DOM for some change and not getting it, how do I tell it to move on without waiting?
The answer ended up being, and then handling the necessary waiting manually
element.focus
element.send_keys :return
Ruby 1.9.3/ IE 9 - I had a click_no_wait error. Watir would not trigger a click on the Save button, which had to be followed by a click on a java popup 'OK' button that confirmed that the save button had saved the document correctly.
Using these two lines in place of the click_no_wait command gets the code working perfectly:
element.focus
element.send_keys :return
Thanks DVG. My code -
ie.button(:id, 'MainContent_B_Save').focus
ie.button(:id, 'MainContent_B_Save').send_keys :return
ie. javascript_dialog.button('OK').click
If this is a Alert, Confirm, or Alert type JS popup, see this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8172888/409820

Google Toolbar prevents open a new window

Google toolbar is creating a serious problem for me in IE 6 when i try to open a window using window.open or if i set target="_blank" for anchor tag. It treats the window as pop up and dispaly pop up is blocked which i really don't want to dsiplay to my user. This problem only occurs if there is a extra code getting executed before window.open, e.g. calling another method at onclick then using window.open. Can somebody tell me how to solve this issue?
The toolbar and other devices like that are intended to protect users from unwanted popup windows. The only way for them to determine whether a window is "wanted" is to determine whether window.open is being called in an event handler for a user-initiated event, like a button click. Thus if you try to do something like call window.open on document load, or in an AJAX success handler, the toolbar (and other blockers) will assume that the popup is suspect.
There's nothing you can do about this other than, as noted by Mr. Buchan, tell your users what to expect. Wherever possible, have your popups launched directly from click handlers.
A more radical change would be to shift away from window.open and use simulated popup windows made from floating elements that cover up part of the page. Something, that is, like what jQuery UI dialogs give you.
Adding the site to your Trusted Sites will work.
Setting target="_blank" shouldn't be triggering a pop-up blocker.

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