3/10/2006
Mozex on the Mac
Mozex is a neat little Firefox extension that among other things, lets you edit
the contents of textareas with an external editor of your choosing.
We use TWiki a lot at work and I hate
editing in the little browser textarea so this extension is really useful to
me. I used it for a while on Windows, but then a few Firefox versions and a
PowerBook later, I could not find a Mozex that would work (the
years). Until yesterday…
Paul Wright has
the scoop. In fact, he has a couple of different ways to do it, depending
on what version of Firefox you have. I went with the first route, that is
downloading a
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How annoying. Mozex won’t download for me. Sounds like an excellent tool though!
It’s a webserver thing. The .xpi doesn’t come down with the
extension MIME type. I saved it to disc and then loaded
file:///path/to/blah.xpi
and it installed.
Cheers, Cameron
I used MR Tech Local Install
Wow, thanks for finding that! Lack of mozex was one of the little annoyances that has made switching to this shiny new Mac laptop feel like wearing shoes that are slightly the wrong size.
Does this still work for you? Everything works for me (including the UI of the latest mozex development release) until I get to the point of actually launching the editor. Then a get a long complex error message ;-(
re TWiki, a former co-worker wrote a Python script that allows editing of a standard TWiki in your favorite local editor (I use bbedit). As written, the script requires that TWiki be using Apache’s authentication so the password can be sent. If you want to try a copy, I can send (no warranties made or implied).
Yep, I just tried it again and it’s working in Firefox 1.5.0.7 on a G4 PowerBook. I have it rigged up to Aquamacs like this.