Dreamweaver preview in browser not working Firefox 3.6 Mac

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542903

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530064

This bug is supposed to be fixed with the release of 3.6.2

The solution I'm using is to make bookmarks in the FF toolbar for the pages I'm testing. Refresh, refresh, refresh. Simpler than automator.

This is a problem Adobe should address, though, or Firefox. I don't care who fixes it, but this really should work.

Ann

If you create a site on the Desktop, the preview will work in Firefox  3.6. The site can be in another folder on the Desktop. The site name  cannot have spaces in the name, and if in another folder, that folder name cannot have spaces. Also, the testing server option must be set to none.

If you're writing php to a MAMP server, you have to navigate to the localhost files to preview in FF 3.6  You can then bookmark the files you're working on. Or, you can use Automator to make a  kind of bookmark to use in the DW browser list. I've been looking for an AppleScript that will do the same thing without having to enter a path name for each file. I've been scanning the add-ons at Mozilla and the extensions at DW exchange hoping someone will write a plugin for this, but so far no luck.

Firefox does not see this as bug, so don't look for them to "fix" it -- and 3.7 and FF4 are on the way. FireFox is cool,  but like I've read in other forums, if you're going force Mac  developers to choose between DW and FF, then Safari's Developer menu starts looking like a decent alternative to Web Developer and Firebug.

If you're addicted to those tools the way I am, then you should download Mozilla's SeaMonkey 2.0.2. It previews DW html and php with MAMP set as the testing server, and you can add Web Developer and Firebug extensions to SeaMonkey. Or, download FF 3.5.8

Also not working for me. What a bore. That work-around might work but who wants to build a new path for every document? Might as well just dump the file onto the icon manually, or enter MAMP URL by hand. I think I'll just switch to another browser for basic testing. Too bad I like all the toolbar add-ons etc for Firefox.

This is not working for me, either. Which is a total pain, having gotten very used to checking, checking, checking.

Firefox, I'm saying goodbye. Adobe, I'm betting you're not totally innocent.

Hope it's soon that you guys fix this.

Was reading a mozilla users thread about this; Firefox considers the new way better (no spaces or special characters in path names). I tried this, but still had problems. Don't look for a fix from mozilla as they think everyone else is out of step on this.

A suggested workaround is Automator. I tried the recipe suggested in the thread, but it didn't work. The poster insisted it should, so I looked at it closer, trying to find out why mine didn't. Then I hit upon this idea; I have my preferences set so that DW opens DW files whenever those files are double clicked, and, any html docs without the DW icon open with Firefox. Taking this into consideration, I came up with a recipe that works.

First, if you haven't already, set the default broswer in Safari's preferences to Firefox.

Open Automator and set up the following workflow:

Get Specified Finder Items - add the DW doc you want to preview in Firefox.

Set Application for Files - set Firefox as the application

Display Webpages - this opens Safari (or the default broswer set in Safari's prefences).

Save the workflow as an application (ex: StandardBrowser.app)

Add the new app to the DW browser list.

The path (Get Specified Finder Items) must be edited for each page you want to preview. I suppose you could create an Automator app for each page and add them to the browser list, but I prefer to just edit the Automator app for each page. Just reopen the app in Automator and add the path to Get Specified Finder Items.

UPDATE: I posted a copy of this at the mozilla users forum where I got the Automator tip. The poster replied that I had one step too many. You don't need the middle step in the workflow above. Also, he said on his 10.6 machine that step one will work just by itself and that step three will work just by itself. Neither one of the one step solutions worked for me (10.5). I updated my Automator app by eliminating the second step, and it's working just like the three step version.

Same thing happened to me. The Preview in Browser from DW has stopped working in FF since upgrading to Firefox 3.6

I was able to fix the regular DW html preview bug by making sure local file paths followed path naming conventions. But, now I have a different problem; Firefox 3.6 will not display a DW preview of an html or php file from the localhost. I am using MAMP 1.7.2 on Mac 10.5.8. If I manually enter the path name in the address bar, Firefox will open the files. DW localhost previews will display in Safari and Opera.