TabIMSwitch Tutorial

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What is it?

TabIMSwitch is a FireFox extension. When you are using FireFox, you may have suffered inconvinent caused by the lack of Input Method support. This extension is designed to enable FireFox switching Input Method intelligently.

How to Start

TabIMSwitch is so simple that no configuration is needed. Just download the current version of TabIMSwitch and drag-and-drop it to your FireFox window, click Yes to install the extension, and you can get the benefit of this tool.

After install, what should I do?

After installed TabIMSwitch, seems nothing changed for FireFox? What should I do to known if it works?

TabIMSwitch is designed as a background extension, it just provide new features without bother you about configuring it. So there are no additional GUI for it.

To know if the new function is provided, change the current input method to non-English, then focus on the address bar. If the input method is changed to English automatically, then TabIMSwitch is working well.

It is recommended to change the intl.keyboard.per_window_layout value to true according to Frequently Asked Questions.

Known issue: On Windows XP and Vista, you may found TabIMSwitch does not work correct, please close the Advanced Text Services. More information, refer to Known Issue Page

How to Use?

Browse the Internet and use the FireFox as usual. But you may feel more convenient about switching the input method.

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