freedom9ner,
The Gecko based browsers (FireFox, Netscape) have some limitations with designMode property which can put browser into a mode so that you can edit the current document.
I suggest you avoid using DOM via appendChild.
And use
document.getElementById("div1").style.display="none";
document.getElementById("div1").style.visibility="hidden";
Demo
Hope it helps.
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