FCKEditor Year 2010 Bug for Firefox 3.6 with ColdFusion

January 21, 2010

If you are having problems using FCKeditor on Firefox 3.6, it's due to a, lets call it a Year 2010 bug. You will see a textarea instead of the editor. This probably only exists in the ColdFusion version, I haven't checked the other versions...

The useragent for Firefox 3.6 might look like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

The problem is on line 47 of fckutils.cfm located in the root of the fckeditor install:

stResult = reFind( "gecko/(200[3-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])", sAgent, 1, true );

Yes that right any gecko browser made after Jan 1, 2010 will fail to match their test.

You can change it to something like this:

stResult = reFind( "gecko/(20[0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])", sAgent, 1, true );

That will give you another 90 years of FCKeditor use on Firefox.

Note this problem will not exist on all versions of FCKeditor, you can also pass checkBrowser=false to the FCKeditor component and it will disable this check. I tried cftextarea on CF9 and it appears to work without modification.

Note: If you don't have a fckutils.cfm file look for a similar line in fckeditor.cfc. Also in some versions of FCKeditor you might get an error stating that the variable width is not defined (due to a bug in showing the textarea).

PS: If you need a ColdFusion Spell Checker for FCKeditor or cftextarea check out Foundeo's Spell Checker Product.

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On 01/21/2010 at 5:50:47 PM EST Brian Lang wrote:

Switch to CKEditor instead. It's a Javascript only add-on. No ColdFusion version.

On 01/21/2010 at 9:31:00 PM EST Francis wrote:

you just saved my life. thanks a lot for this post

On 01/22/2010 at 8:09:35 AM EST Sebastiaan wrote:

Yeah, we discovered this as well in all our CF8 installs and in the latest FCKEditor as well (2.65). A quick fix was all it took (change 3-9 into 0-9).

Too bad you stop @.hotmail adresses, now you cannot see my really cool Gravatar ;-)

On 01/22/2010 at 10:48:54 AM EST Pete Freitag wrote:

@Brian - Yes that is probably the best course of action. Have you found the migration to be simple?

@Francis - You're Welcome!

@Sebastiaan - I've changed the rule to allow hotmail addresses again, I was getting a ton of spam at one point from hotmail addresses, we'll see how it goes. You need to do more than just change the [3-9] to [0-9], you also need to the change the 0 before it.

On 01/22/2010 at 11:42:53 AM EST Sebastiaan wrote:

We indeed changed this in our fckutils.cfm: stResult = reFind( "gecko/(20[0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])", sAgent, 1, true );

On 02/02/2010 at 10:05:48 PM EST Suzy Naschansky wrote:

Many thanks, Pete - very useful info!

On 02/03/2010 at 12:06:11 PM EST Topper wrote:

Thanks Pete!

On 02/03/2010 at 1:05:16 PM EST Emil wrote:

It doesn't work? :/

On 02/08/2010 at 6:54:26 PM EST Jake wrote:

Great Post! This worked perfectly.

On 02/10/2010 at 8:12:10 PM EST Pete wrote:

I'm having issues with cffinder since upgrading to firefox 3.6. it does not show image names or the upload button.

any thoughts.

On 02/18/2010 at 11:07:39 AM EST Adam wrote:

I actually had to update this in my fckeditor.cfm page not the .cfc Hope that helps

On 02/18/2010 at 1:34:54 PM EST andy matthews wrote:

Hey Pete...

Running CF8 locally and I changed that line in both of my instances, and restarted ColdFusion and I'm still getting the plain textarea within FF3.6.

Any ideas?

On 02/18/2010 at 1:42:41 PM EST Pete Freitag wrote:

@Andy - Hmm, not sure double check that you changed the regex properly. Are you using cftextarea to invoke FCKeditor, or are you invoking it directly?

On 02/18/2010 at 9:42:47 PM EST Crystal Fetterman wrote:

Worked perfectly. You rock Pete :)

On 02/19/2010 at 5:40:41 PM EST andy matthews wrote:

Pete...

Turns out I was editing the FCK instance within my JRun folders when I should have been editing a stand alone instance we manually installed. Got it working now.

On 02/19/2010 at 8:26:03 PM EST Ryan wrote:

rock on!!!

On 02/19/2010 at 8:36:57 PM EST Bridget wrote:

Pete,

Thanks for the start! I changed mine to use a regular expression of gecko/(20(0[3-9]|[1-9][0-9])[0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9]) .... because the comment above the regular expression in fckeditor.cfc says to check for Gecko ( >= 20030210+ ).

Yours will pass if the Gecko version date is 20010210 - this one won't

-Bridget

On 02/19/2010 at 8:44:00 PM EST Bridget wrote:

Also, note I had to change: if( arrayLen( stResult.pos ) eq 2 )

if( arrayLen( stResult.pos ) gt 2 )

On 02/22/2010 at 1:40:24 PM EST RS wrote:

Awesome, you just saved us a lot of grief.

If anyone's using an older version of FckEditor (e.g. 2.4.3), apply Pete's fix to fckeditor.cfm and fckeditor.cfc.

On 02/24/2010 at 2:40:14 AM EST Ed wrote:

Thanks i cut and pasted the code just as you said, works like a champ, thanks for posting. Ed

On 03/02/2010 at 7:13:25 PM EST Larry Peterson wrote:

Pete,

Thanks a million...you won't believe how much grief you saved me (and others)

On 03/03/2010 at 2:37:40 AM EST Mansi wrote:

We are using FCK editor version 2.3.2 in OpenCMS. I tried all the changes mentioned above, but am still not ablt to resolve the probelm.

On 03/03/2010 at 11:12:11 AM EST andy matthews wrote:

Mansi...

I had a similar problem. It turned out that I was editing the right file, but in the wrong location. My system had two instances of FCKEditor and I was editing the one that was NOT being used. Perhaps you're having a similar problem?

On 03/05/2010 at 8:33:39 AM EST Gordon wrote:

@Andy Matthews: where's this file ?? @Mansi: did you resolve the problem ?

TNX

On 03/05/2010 at 11:57:52 AM EST andy matthews wrote:

@Gordon We have a custom install of FCK Editor, rather than the one which comes with ColdFusion 8. I was working on the native version.

On 03/08/2010 at 7:23:12 PM EST John wrote:

For OpenCMS users, there is a second file to be changed. Besides /system/workplace/resources/editors/fckeditor/fckutils.cfm you need to make a change in /system/workplace/editors/fckeditor/editor_configuration.xml

Replace in Line 13

Gecko/200\d*

with

Gecko/20\d*

HTH John

On 03/09/2010 at 6:38:34 AM EST Gordon wrote:

VerY Thanks !!

It works in Opencms 6.2.3. I changed: /system/workplace/resources/editors/fckeditor/fckeditor.cfm

and

/system/workplace/editors/fckeditor/editor_configuration.xml

Gordon

On 03/11/2010 at 4:56:07 PM EST kevin L. wrote:

wow...thanks a million...just saved my bacon.

On 03/27/2010 at 1:13:21 PM EDT Rich wrote:

Yeah Man, Thx so much... saved me hours

On 04/27/2010 at 5:04:55 PM EDT kdub wrote:

After I apply this fix, I get a FCKeditorAPI is not defined javascript error

On 05/21/2010 at 9:58:13 PM EDT Anonymous wrote:

I came across this issue using Firefox 3.5. The fix worked great.

On 06/24/2010 at 1:00:55 AM EDT James wrote:

Doesn't work. I am using Drupal 5.x. and phplist. Both of them is not working on Firefox which I have upgraded to Namoroka . Not sure which version of Firefox it is. About said Firefox 3.6.6pre...

On 06/29/2010 at 1:44:20 PM EDT Nathan wrote:

Probably just saved me hours of frustration! Thank you for sharing the knowledge.

On 08/04/2010 at 12:20:53 PM EDT BKW wrote:

Thanks for the info and solution. You perfectly described the issue and the solution worked instantly!

On 09/02/2010 at 12:05:38 PM EDT Carlos wrote:

I was about to tell the client something along the lines of... "well don't use Firefox then..." Thanks a lot for the solution.

On 01/20/2011 at 4:42:17 PM EST Scott wrote:

You're awesome! Thanks for this post

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On 04/12/2011 at 8:22:54 AM EDT Gordon wrote:

I have same problem with firefox 4. someone has the same problem?