Switching from Firefox to IE with just a click

Just found another Firefox extension that solves a little problem that sometimes I have (expecially when I'm not on my machine).

Normally I use Firefox for all my operations on the net, but there are few times that I need to switch on Internet Explorer to perform the task in a better way. The task that requires me always to switch to IE to have a better environment is posting on a .Text blog by accessing the Admin Tab.

To post on a .Text powered Blog I use always some blogging tools like BlogJet or IMHO, but there are a lot of times that I'm not on my personal machines and I've not these tools on my hands, so the .Text interface is the only way to write on my Blog.

If you try to write a new post on a .Text powered Blog via Firefox, you'll see that the HTML textbox control used to write the post is not available in design view, but only with the HTML source code view. You've to write the post via its source html code, and for a long post it's not so simple... so what I've always done in these cases is open my IE and accessing the .Text Blog interface by using it (quite boring!).

Today by checking the Firefox extensions available I've discovered a nice little extension called IEView, that is a simple extension that allows the current page or a selected link to be opened in Internet Explorer. Right-clicking a link now includes an "Open Link Target in IE" menu item. Right-clicking elsewhere in the main body of the page (not within an image, text box, etc.) gives "View This Page in IE.". Nice!

Print | posted on Friday, January 07, 2005 2:35 PM

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that is one of the 2 extensions I can't live without (the other is the web developer extension)


here is an extenion that works the opposite way (opening firefox from IE)
http://www.iosart.com/firefox/firefoxview/
Left by Shannon J Hager on Jan 07, 2005 5:05 PM

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Wow, thanks for the link Shannon!
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Jan 07, 2005 5:29 PM

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Geez, Stefano. You might also want to consider updating FTB to FTB3. Its not a cakewalk but it should give you Firefox rich editor support. Its a little squirrelly though. FTB3 doesn't insert Hyperlinks for me in Gecko, but FTB2 works correctly. So if you rarely enter posts from a webpage, then its probably not worth your time.

Lots of posts on upgrading FTB in .text. Here's mine if interested.

http://dbvt.com/blog/archive/2005/01/08/722.aspx
Left by Dave Burke on Jan 11, 2005 12:37 PM

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Thanks Dave, I'll give it a read for sure because I was thinking to update the FreeTextbox.dll but I was worried for the side-effects of this...
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Jan 11, 2005 12:52 PM

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