I use Firebird every day on my Windows 2000 box at work, and on Linux
at home, and think it's a great browser. That said it really annoys me
that I'm forced to use Mozillas built in editor whenever I wish to
view a pages source. Editors are a very personal choice and are
arguably the most important program on any developers machine, and yet
whenever I view source I'm stuck in this cut-down editor.

Perhaps it's there as a demo of what XUL and other Mozilla
technologies are capable of, and I can see the appeal in having a
cross platform editor that does not rely on a native binary, but I'd
love to have the choice of using an external editor. Perhaps there
should be a radio button in the preferences that allows:

a) Use Mozillas built in editor to view source
b) Use my external editor to view source: [path to editor]

I'm currently using the mozex extension but this does not change the
behaviour of the Page Source menu item. I also note that in the
authors FAQ (http://mozex.mozdev.org/faq.html) he says:

"Mozex is a very ugly hack, in the most negative sense of the word.
Its functions should be included in Mozilla/Firebird. Mozex is not
intended to become a "standard" tool and it definitely should go away
as soon as possible.

Please bug the developers of Mozilla to provide sane, documented and
complex support for external programs as a part of Mozilla/Firebird."

Any chance of this happening? If not, are there any workarounds/hacks
that can accomplish this?

Cheers
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