I am unable to fire a .click() event from within a Firefox plugin. For example:

$("#logonId",pageDoc).click();

pageDoc is the document of the page which Firefox is currently on. I can fire it correctly if I use the following function:

function fireEvent(element,event) {

if (document.createEvent) {

dispatch for firefox + others

var evt = document.createEvent("HTMLEvents");

evt.initEvent(event, true, true ); event type,bubbling,cancelable

return !element.dispatchEvent(evt);

} else {

// dispatch for IE

var evt = document.createEventObject();

return element.fireEvent('on'+event,evt)

}

}