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One press compile for Firefox

Topic last updated 06 Dec 2010, by Phil Anderson. 1 reply
daniel moser
29 Jan 2010

This is less to do with how mbed works and more to do with firefox, but let me try and explain.

I would like to be able to hit Ctrl + D and have the program automatically compiled then saved to E:, without clicking any OK buttons or choosing any locations, and still have the browser act normal.

I have a partial solution, I've got it down to clicking the one OK button (on the opening programx.bin dialogue).

By installing the Automatic save Folder addon, setting everything from the http://mbed.org domain to save to E:, everything else to the normal download folder. Then in firefox tools, options, main, downloads, save files to E: (the addon redirects normal web downloads to the download folder).

If anyone knows how to get rid of that last dialogue it would be great, according to the mozilla knowelege base its working as instend, as .bins are of MIME type "application/octet-stream" and they are not able to be automated ("do this automatically for files like this from now on" is greyed out). I can't think of a solutions other than changing the file type of the compiled code to something silly.

Phil Anderson
06 Dec 2010

Another forum post about this is here:

http://mbed.org/forum/mbed/topic/1066/

Direct link to the explanation:

http://alexlouden.com/2010/binary-firefox/

Hope this helps!