Launcher
Posted on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 in Technology
Last edited Fri, 5 Sep 2008
Last edited Fri, 5 Sep 2008
Firefox should have a way to launch an external application on a link from the context menu,
but it doesn't, so I made a extension: launcher-1.0.xpi.
The source is at http://elder-gods.org/~larry/repos/launcher/.
It doesn't have a user-friendly dialogue box to configure it yet. To use it you create a file called link-handlers.js in your firefox profile directory. It should contain a javascript hash table like this one:
{"seeurl" : "gnome-terminal -x sh -c \"echo url: %r | less\" ",
"links" : "gnome-terminal -x links %r " }
update: I have a new version, launcher-1.1.xpi. It doesn't have the newlines problem and works on Firefox 3.