input telugu characters in firefox

Reading telugu characters in firefox is good, but if you can write in telugu it would be much more cool! This, for example, would come in handy when searching in google for documents containing certain telugu words, when writing telugu scraps in orkut etc.,

• Install the "Indic input Extension" from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3972/
  
  
• Notice the small box on the bottom of firefox that says "Default Input"
  
  
• Go to http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Configuring_on_Linux and read about various ways of inputting telugu characters
  
  
• If you can touch type fast in English, I suggest you choose "తెలుగు - RTS" option to write telugu characters
  
  
• use "ctrl+space" to alternate writing in English and Telugu.

The following screenshot shows how to select "తెలుగు - RTS" and search for documents containing "తెలుగు" in them.

Tested on Debian Etch (testing), firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2, Indic Input Extension 1.0