Firefox Extension

BonGoLipi Firefox Extension lets user type Bengali in Unicode. This extension runs on Firefox version 3 or higher. Earlier Firefox versions had bugging Unicode rendering engine for Bangla.

Any text area, except Rich Text Editing areas, can be used for Bongolipi typing by turning on Bongolipi with a right mouse click. That means now users can write Bangla in Orkut or Facebook. In Yahoo! Mail or Gmail. For Yahoo! Mail and Gmail, user has to write the mails in Plain Text mode. For any special formating, you can switch to Rich Text mode. Your Bangla text will be preserved. The problem still remains for Hotmail. Hotmail has implemented Plain Text mode in Rich Text Editing area making it impossible for us to turn on Bongolipi in Hotmail.

In future version, we will support Rich Text Editing areas as well.

 

Firefox Extension Used in Orkut

Firefox Extension Used in Yahoo! Mail

Firefox Extension Used in GMail