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Keyboard text replacements in Firefox (Mac OS)?

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I use keyboard text replacements on Mac OS (under System Preferences/Keyboard/Text) and they are present in Safari and Chrome forms. For instance, typing a message in GMail I can type 'sig' to be replaced by 'NAME' . Can't do it in FireFox. Is there a way?

I use keyboard text replacements on Mac OS (under System Preferences/Keyboard/Text) and they are present in Safari and Chrome forms. For instance, typing a message in GMail I can type 'sig' to be replaced by 'NAME' . Can't do it in FireFox. Is there a way?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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I don't know if there is a way to integrate Firefox with that feature of MacOS.

If you don't find one, you could look at the following add-on, which sounds useful but I haven't tried it myself: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/auto-text-expander/

ali.z.a.shahab
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I would like this to work too, mac OS text replacement enabled in Firefox to avoid redundancy. I could not find any add-on that serve this purpose. please advise if anyone know any terminal script to do its magic. thank you

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See also: FoxReplace https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/foxreplace/

Bug 1149826 - Mac "text replacement" feature does not work in forms You can vote for a bug to show your interest
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=voting.html