Mozilla Firefox

Contents 1 Configuration 2 Tips 3 Editing Textareas with Vim 3.1 Prerequisites 3.2 Installation 3.3 Usage 3.4 Tips

Configuration

You can adjust your personal preferences in Mozilla Firefox by creating/editing this file:

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[something].default\user.js

You can view the changes by browsing to the URL about:config.

Tips

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Editing Textareas with Vim

This patch is not very elegant (to say the least), but for MediaWiki editing, it is indispensable.

Prerequisites

GVim for Windows is installed in C:\Program Files\vim

Installation

• install mozex
• edit user.js (see above) to contain:

user_pref("mozex.command.textarea", "C:\\Progra~1\\vim\\vim63\\gvim.exe %t");
user_pref("mozex.general.tmpdir", "C:\\tmp"); 

• restart Mozilla Firefox

Usage

• right-click in a textarea
• enter the keycommand:

 x, e     (the same as mozex, edit)

• edit, save and quit
• left-click in the textarea

Tips

• You can remember the keycommand by the mnemonic:

Xternal Editor

• You can use this info to edit textareas with any editor you like, but you'll have to change the mozex.command.textarea command correspondingly