[Vimperator] External editor disables Firefox windows

[Daniel Bainton]

On 29/04/2008, iiijjjiii <iiijjjiii at gmail.com> wrote:
> The external editor feature for TEXTAREA and INSERT mods ( Ctrl-i ) is
>  nice. However, when I use it I cannot access any Firefox windows I
>  already have open. Is this behaviour intentional? Often while editing I
>  wish to reference something from a web page but can't look it up because
>  Firefox is unavailable. Other FF external editor addons, eg
>  ViewSourceWith and Mozex, allow you to continue viewing pages while editing.

It's intentional. Firefox has changed something in the thread stuff
that make it not work correctly without blocking.

There's no Mozex version for FF3, so can't compare to that.

ViewSourceWith seems to work somehow. Should check what kind of a hack
they've done and copy it for us if it's good...

--
Daniel