Firemacs v4.3

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• An extension to add Emacs's editing features to Firefox
• You can also enjoy "less"-like motions in non-input elements
• Official download

Key Bindings

• You can browse the available commands in the configuration window.
• 'M-' means 'ESC' 'C-['. The Alt key can also be used on Windows/UNIX.
• To disable a command, remove its key characters

Tips

• Tab list
  • To use this feature, set browser.ctrlTab.previews to true.
• Problems specific to Windows
  • To use the Alt key as Meta, set ui.key.menuAccessKey to 0
• Problems specific to Mac
  • Typing C-a when Find Diag is displayed, all matched keys are highlighted after the cursor moves to the beginning of the line
    • Set ui.key.generalAccessKey to 0 to disable this kind of accesskey (default -1)
  • On Firefox 2, typing 'C-SPC' gets a menu appeared. Use 'C-i' instead
    • This was fixed on Firefox 3 but came back on b5, sigh

Git repository

Git repository is available on github.

Copyright

Firemacs is a wineware. You may use and modify firemacs. But if you want to request a new feature, you should give the author a bottle of good wine. :-)

The early versions of Firemacs was implemented based on mozless. I would thank the author of mozless.

The icon was drawn by Mr. Ohkouchi. Thanks!

History

• 4.3 (29 Jun 2011 submitted; waiting for approval)
  • Co-existing with Panorama.
  • Tab listing with C-xb.
• 4.2 (23 June 2011 submitted; 29 June 2011 approved)
  • Supporting FF5.
  • Stop using jar as archive format.
• 4.1 (14 March 2011 submitted; 17 March 2011 approved)
  • Fixing a double-operated bug on Firefox 3.
• 4.0 (8 March 2011 submitted; 12 March 2011 approved)
  • Supporting FF4.
  • C-xC-s is now saving page.
  • C-xC-e is searching web.
  • C-xh is selecting all.
  • H is scrolling left
  • L is scrolling right.
• 3.8 (28 January 2010)
  • Supporting Firemacs 3.6.
• 3.7 (28 July 2009 submitted; 30 July 2009 approved)
  • Firemacs 3.0 does not work on second or later frames. So, backported the old code.
• 3.6 (7 July 2009 submitted; 17 July 2009 approved)
  • Supporting Firefox 3.5.
  • Detecting FF's version with function definition
  • C-xC-a looks up Google Maps with a selected string
  • C-M-b copys the title and URL
• 3.5 (10 March 2009 submitted; 15 March 2009 approved)
  • C-xC-s web-searchs a selected string
  • C-M-t copys the title
  • C-M-u copys URL
  • Option of Edit area only
  • C-u kills the text between the cursor and the beginning of line
  • Fixing the bug of arrow keys vs completion menu
  • Implementing "C-M-"
  • Stopping search with "C-m"
  • Fixing a bug that Firefox 3 beeps if type C-x in an Edit area
• 3.4 (23 July 2008 submitted; 23 July 2008 approved)
  • Right click on the status icon displays a menu
  • Firemacs can work on any dialog windows (thanks to Hirano-san)
  • Supporting BonEcho and Minefield
• 3.3 (20 June 2008 submitted; 28 June 2008 approved)
  • Configuration window is now tab based (thanks to Hirano-san)
  • C-m generates the Return key code (thanks to Hirano-san)
  • Adding tooltip to status bar icon
  • Supporting Iceweasel
  • Regular expression to turn off
  • Using Alt/Meta as M-
• 3.2 (17 May 2008 submitted; 17 June 2008 approved)
  • A bug fix for canceling access key on Firefox 3
  • New icon
  • Status bar icon to enable/disable Firemacs
• 3.1 (14 Mar 2008 submitted; 20 Mar 2008 approved)
  • Down-sizing the icon to 32x32 due to Firefox 3 beta 4
  • Detecting whether or not menu is displayed
• 3.0 (4 Mar 2008 beta release)
  • You can disable ESC
  • You can walk any kinds of menu on Firefox 3
• Search is now available on Firefox 3
• 2.4 (13 Nov 2007 submitted; 28 Nov 2007 approved
  • You can choose whether or not C-n/C-p walk through forms. Remove the check from "walk form" if you prefer not to walk through
  • The code has been re-written with design patterns
• 2.3 (20 Sep 2007 submitted; 23 Sep 2007 approved
  • The arrow keys (up, donw, right, left) can handle region
  • A command prefix is shown in the status bar
  • The algorithm to find forms has been sophisticated
  • You can specify a regular expression to be matched URL (the default value is "wiki"). Accesskeys in the page matched to the regular expression are automatically removed
  • XPath is used to remove accesskeys
  • Preference Observer is used
  • Naming convention of variables and functions is changed
• 2.2 (20 Aug 2007 submitted; 29 Aug 2007 approved
  • The alt key is available on Windows/Mac
  • The command prefix (C-x) can be configurable
  • A bug fix for the mark
• 2.1 (1 May 2007 submitted; 30 June 2007 released)
  • 'C-d' deletes the current character
  • 'C-g' hides the Search bar
  • Completely re-written with the Object Oriented style
• 2.0 (5 April 2007 not submitted)
  • Overriding event listeners of, for example, vox or gmail
  • 'M-k' removes accesskeys of, for example, wiki or wikipedia
  • 'C-.' selects the body. This is convenient if the caret is in an input
  • Key binding is now possible
  • Bug fixes of zero position mark
• 1.1 (1 March 2007 unofficial release)
  • Change C-u to M-v
  • 'C-xs' selects the first submit button. M-n/M-p can walk around submit buttons
  • 'C-xt' selects the first input/textarea. C-n/C-p can walk around input/textareas. 'C-xt' in an input/textarea selects the content body
  • C-f/C-b in readable area selected the next/prev tab but not its content body. Now they select the body of the next/prev tab
  • Fixing the side-effect of C-g
• 1.0 (16 Feb 2007 submitted, 1 March 2007 approved)
  • An XML table for key-binding was introduced to simplify the code
  • C-k now can delete an empty line also
  • Configuration for enabling/disabling keybidings (by shirou)
  • 'C-x k' closes the current tab
  • M-delete deletes a word backward
  • M-d deletes a word forward
• 0.10 (29 Jan 2007 submitted, not approved)
  • C-n and C-p can walk around the completion menus of the URL/Search bar
  • 'C-xC-f' opens a file
  • 'C-x l' jumps to the URL bar
  • 'C-x g' jumps to the Search bar
  • 'C-x u' executes undo
  • 'M-<' and 'M->' selects the region if the mark exits
• 0.9 (26 Jan 2007 approved)
  • Removed the global variables
  • Removed unnecessary files from the contents of the archive
• 0.8 (Not released)
  • Implemented 'F' and 'R'
  • C-g and M-w now remove highlight
  • Both C-s and C-r emulates Emacs with very good manner
  • The firebug icon can be dispaled in the status bar
  • Implemented a generic algorithm to see whether or not the current element is writable. Firemacs can co-exist with i-revo but the Firemacs features cannot be used
• 0.7 (The first release to the public)
  • C-m now inserts a new line
  • C-SPC displays 'Mark set' in the status bar
  • Obsoleted Alt completed
  • Implemented M-< and M->
  • Firemacs now co-exists the HTML editor of vox.com. Since accesskey of vox.com wins, commands of firemacs cannot be used.
• 0.6
  • Fixed a bug of 'C-['
• 0.5
  • ESC now works as Meta
  • 'C-[' now also works as Meta
  • Obsoleted A-w. Use 'C-[ w' instead
• 0.4
  • Search with 'C-s'
• 0.3
  • Removing unnecessary code
  • Implemented 'A-w'
  • A new icon by Mr. Ohkouchi