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

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:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/urxvtc -e vim $@

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 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:

% 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

• compile and install mplayerplug-in:

% cd mplayerplug-in
% ./configure --enable-gtk2 \
	--with-gecko-sdk=/tmp/mplayer/gecko-sdk \
	--prefix=/opt/mplayerplug-in
% make && make install

• restart firefox and enjoy :)

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

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