Manorama in Firefox

If you want to view http://www.manoramaonline.com in firefox, the steps to accomplish this is very easy. These steps work in linux and in windows.
First you want to install the Manorama font. http://geocities.com/peringz/fonts/manorama.zip

For Linux users, make sure you have true type font support. In Debian this is fairly easy by installing the right packages. Most stock linux distro should come with all the support you need out of the box. On Debian if you install ttf-malayalam-fonts package, it provides a nice place to store the Manorama.ttf file.
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-malayalam-fonts/ is where I put my font file.

In windows XP you can use, c:\WINDOWS\Fonts . I'm pretty sure this is the directory for other versions of windows as well.

Next you need to install an extension for AutoCharacterCoding switching for Malayalam in Firebird/Mozilla from http://quicktools.mozdev.org. That's it. Restart firefox and try out http://www.manoramaonline.com. There's a delay from when it initially loads the page and then switches the character coding, but this is only a small annoyance for me. Let me know if you kids come across any issues. Later.

UPDATE: Just use the Padma extension.

First Post

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