FirefoxView

About

FirefoxView is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows you to open Firefox with the current page or a selected link displayed in Internet Explorer.

Install FirefoxView 1.1

Installation

The Internet Explorer menu items will be installed the first time you run Firefox with the extension installed.
To remove or re-install them go to the FirefoxView Options dialog.

Additional Information

The extension adds menu items to the Internet Explorer context menu. Right click somewhere on the page and choose "View This Page in Firefox" to open Firefox with the current URL. Similarly, right-clicking on a link (image, anchor etc.) and choosing "Open Link Target in Firefox" opens the link target in Firefox. Obviously, the extension works only on Microsoft Windows.

FirefoxView isn't compatible with Norton Antivirus 2004 and older with script blocking enabled. Important: The extension uses a simple ActiveX command to launch Firefox. The full source code is open as part of the extension. Apparently, Norton Antivirus (versions prior to NAV 2005) sometimes detects this as a malicious script. I can assure you there is nothing malicious in FirefoxView. Please check your Norton Antivirus script blocking settings if you want to use FirefoxView.

See also

FoxyTunes - my extension that allows you to control any media player from Firefox and more...
Supports WinAmp, iTunes, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, Musicmatch, Quintessential, J. River, jetAudio, MediaMonkey, Media Player Classic, Sonique, wxMusik, Real Player, XMMS, Noatun, Juk, Amarok, Music Player Daemon, Rhythmbox and many other players.

Version History

1.1

• Firefox 4 compatibility

1.0

• Firefox 3 compatibility
• 24 new translations: Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Persian, Finnish, Galician, Gujarati, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) - thanks to the BabelZilla team!
• Graduates to version 1.0!

0.31.4

• Firefox 2 compatibility

0.31.3

• Firefox 1.5 compatibility
• Spanish translation - thanks to Voyager
• Portuguese translation - thanks to Fernando Pereira Silveira

0.31.1

• Firefox 1.0 compatibility

0.31

• French translation by Ersplus added.

0.3

• When the FirefoxView extension is uninstalled, the IE menu items are uninstalled correctly.

0.2

• Solves the Norton Antivirus false warning about a "malicious script".
• Opening pages with frames will now correctly open the whole frameset.

0.1

• The first version of FirefoxView.

Feedback

Please contact me with comments, suggestions, questions or bug reports.

Acknowledgements

FirefoxView was inspired by the excellent ieview extension by Paul Roub. It complements it nicely and together they allow going back and forth between Internet Explorer and Firefox.

I discovered View in Firefox after I finished writing this extension. It is a little application that comes with its own installer and does something similar to FirefoxView. It doesn't handle links though, it can only open the currently displayed pages.