f9 and firefox-3 emacs keybindings

[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
<wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200806 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It seems that with the change to firefox-3 on f9 I lost my emacs
> keybindings.  Firefox is back to using arrow keys (or soemsuch) for
> motion commands.  \C-a no longer takes me to the beginning of the
> line, \C-b no longer takes me back one char, etc.  This sucks pretty
> badly.  Google only finds the old ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file method for
> requesting sane keybindisngs.  Is there a way to do this in firefox-3
> or must I upgrade to firefox-2???

It may not be the approach you'd like, but there is an emacs
keybindings extension called firemacs here:

http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/firemacs/

Maybe that'll do what you want?

reid