Right to left (BiDi) support in Firefox
Whenever I install Firefox on a new computer, I find myself hitting Ctrl-Shift-X to switch the text box direction to now avail. Unfortunately the way to turn this option on is quite hidden.
You have to navigate to about:config, type bidi in the filter box, and double click the line that says bidi.browser.ui. That will set its value to true. All you have to do now is restart Firefox and the View->Switch Page Direction and Edit->Switch Text Direction menu items will be added along with the Ctrl-Shift-X shortcut.
Hope this helps some poor soul someday.
7 Comments on “Right to left (BiDi) support in Firefox”
>Hope this helps some poor soul someday.
Yes, it did.
Yes. it did.
Thank you,
God bless your soul.
Thank you for your help.
Thanks a lot.
Genius
Why does Firefox allow BiDi in the location bar anyway?!
Heh, that’s odd, didn’t know you could do that.
I guess they’re just using the same text control for the address bar as they are using in the web pages. Maybe someday when the URLs actually become unicode it might be useful. For my mother :).
Thanks so much… I’ve been avoiding writing emails in Hebrew in Gmail partly because of this problem. That will change now :)