The best example on the web of getting Firefox to display an elipsis ('...') on text-overflow.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-ktYYK_s5fqJ2Hu1ryv2QSL0-?p=120
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CSS Text Truncation Problem Description
Internet Explorer and Safari support the ellipsis property for text-overflow (in css: text-overflow:ellipsis;). Firefox does not. This notebook is comprised of pages solving the problem for Firefox using CSS, javaScripts and an XBL (Extensible Binding Language) object.
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Here is the code directory to reproduce the effects demonstrated on page 4 of this notebook.
http://www.hedgerwow.com/360/dhtml/text_overflow/
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Resize your browser window to see the Firefox truncation in action. (Works with IE and Safari too, of course).
http://www.hedgerwow.com/360/dhtml/text_overflow/demo.php
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