====== Firefox ======

This is a little collection of helpful plugins for the famous browser Firefox.

===== It's All Text! =====

This plugin allows you to edit web forms using your favourite text editor. In
fact, this text has been written using vim running in an X terminal.

After the installation, you have to specify the full path to the editor (if
using a graphical one). Rather complex tasks need to be done within a shell
script, this is the one I use:
<file>
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/urxvtc -e vim $@
</file>

===== MPlayerPlug-in =====

The mplayerplug-in allows for having an embedded mplayer in firefox, acting as
an all-purpose web media player. The only problem is to install it in Gentoo
along with a binary firefox install, and not having to compile firefox from
source. But help can be found on the
[[http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/install.php|mplayerplugin-homepage]]:
get a tarball of gecko-sdk and use the contained headers. (Yes, no compiling
necessary as firefox-bin provides the libraries already.)

Here comes the quick and dirty guide:

  * fetch and unpack mplayerplug-in and gecko-sdk into a temporary directory:
<file>
% mkdir /tmp/mplayer && cd /tmp/mplayer
% wget 'http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in-3.50.tar.gz?download'
% wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7/gecko-sdk-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.tar.gz
% tar xzf mplayerplug-in-3.50.tar.gz
% tar xzf gecko-sdk-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.tar.gz
</file>
  * compile and install mplayerplug-in:
<file>
% cd mplayerplug-in
% ./configure --enable-gtk2 \
	--with-gecko-sdk=/tmp/mplayer/gecko-sdk \
	--prefix=/opt/mplayerplug-in
% make && make install
</file>
  * restart firefox and enjoy :)

===== Show Full URLs in Address Bar =====

Surprisingly simple, just set ''browser.urlbar.trimURLs'' to ''false'' in
''about:config''.


====== Links ======
* [[https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/4125|It's All Text!]]