Keyboard Navigation in Firefox

 
Why
I don’t think I need to say anything about why we want to use the keyboard over a mouse: All the geeks love it, and it’s just more efficiency.
However when we come to web visiting, it is not easy to just use our keyboard. Of cause we can use text based browsers like links, w3m, […]

get annotation from firefox

Most of the time I use Firefox to visit my ticket system and making a task there is not as easy as in w3m.
Here’s how my way of getting the annotation improves:

At the very beginning I just copy the URL from Firefox and paste to w3m-browse-url, and make annotation there. This is not very convience, […]

Just like Emacs

With extensions Firefox is really customizable. But writing extensions is not easy: We’ll need to learn a lot of things like XUL.
The good news is, with key config and grease monkey, easy scripting like in Emacs is possible.
Grease Monkey allows several script to run when the current domain match a regrexp, which is perfect for […]

Let Emacs handle mailto:

Well Firefox is a web browser only and it doesn’t come with a mail client, so it will call the system default mailer to handle “mailto:” links.
It is hard to say how to define the system default mailer. It’s different according to your OS: On windows they use registry, in the Unix world it depends […]

keyconfig

address: http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=254
This extension allows us to re-bind keys to functions. Pretty useful for keyboard users like me. A side benefit is that you could learn lots of new key bindings and find out “why this key binding doesn’t work?” — Mostly because the key is bind to another function in another extension.
It can also disable […]

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