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Easily read man pages in Firefox

Want your man pages read with proper formatting? Install man2html then open Firefox and do the following:

Go to Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks;
Open a bookmark folder then right-click and chose New Bookmark;
Name the new bookmark Man;
In the Location field paste this line:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=%s

In the Keyword field type man;
Click Add.

Now all you have to do is type man command in Firefox’s URL bar to get a nicely formatted man page.

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