I have an xAMMP - can I use this as a server and how to communice between Notepad++, XAMMP and firefox?
Yes, you can use whatever webserver you want, it just matters how you call the browser.
You either can use the Run from the run menu with something like
where $(FILE_NAME) gets automatically replaced by the filename of the current opened document
or
you edit Shortcuts.xml, which is the file holds, amongst others, the configuration how
Launch in… gets called. Use again http://localhost…/$(FILE_NAME) as the parameter to
the browser
or
you can use npp_exec plugin which offers additional features like you want to start the webserver in advance etc…
Cheers
Claudia