Comments on: View Webpage Source Code in Your Favorite Text Editor – Firefox

By: Stringkiller

Stringkiller — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:52:17 +0000

Super Information! Thanks. Works well.

By: BobJam

BobJam — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:12:36 +0000

Nevermind . . . I got it. Wasn’t doing step one. Once I did that, “/usr/bin/bluefish” was fine.

By: BobJam

BobJam — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:40:13 +0000

Can’t get it to work in Ubuntu.

Using bluefish, and set the path to “/usr/bin/bluefish” (Without the quotes, of course . . . and that IS the path shown in my file browser).

Out of a terminal, “bluefish” does it. In the menu properties, it shows “bluefish %F”. So I tried just “bluefish” (which I didn’t expect to work, and it didn’t). Then I tried “/usr/bin/ bluefish %F”, and that didn’t work either.

Then I tried backslashes instead of forward slashes. Didn’t expect that to work, and it didn’t.

And I tried “. .” preceding the path, thinking that maybe it wasn’t seeing the root. That didn’t work.

Since I have the home directory in a separate partition from the root, I considered that that may be a nuance to this, so I tried “/home/usr/bin/biuefish”. Still no joy.

BTW, after each iteration, I restarted Firefox, and then rebooted the whole system if that didn’t work.

So my head is spinning from all these iterations, restarts, and reboots.

Just flat out can’t get it to work.

What am I missing?

By: Asian Angel

Asian Angel — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:47:31 +0000

@Joe – That should work fine with Firefox. ^__^

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:48:15 +0000

I found new editor called NaviCoder Editor, can I use with Firefox?

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:57:03 +0000

An easier approach if using Firefox is to install the ViewSourceWith addon….

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/394

By: Rik

Rik — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:59:05 +0000

Thiis works for me, but on pages such as this page which has a loooong page title, it will not create the file. I get a dialog box telling me so. On pages with shorter titles it works. I am pointing it to Notepad++. It always launches the app ok.

By: jfb3

jfb3 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:41:04 +0000

@Dinesh,
That doesn’t seem to work for me.

By: John Hrvatin

John Hrvatin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:09:15 +0000

This is a great tip! I work on the developer tools for IE and people asked to do this all the time so we added some UI for it.

Here’s how to do this in IE8:
From the developer tools (press F12 to open), click File->Customize Internet Explorer View Source. You can choose the built-in viewer, Notepad, or provide the path to any other viewer.

Hope this helps!

John Hrvatin

By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:35:42 +0000

If ur on a Mac here is how u need to give the path:

For TextEdit:
/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

For Smultron:
/Applications/Smultron.app/Contents/MacOS/Smultron