UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone,
What I am trying to do is assign a F-key a macro to save a file in vi and display said file in firefox. The details are as follows:

I am using a Win 7 laptop with and ssh program to log into a unix system.

What I am trying to do is figure out how to bring up the firefox browser from the ssh program. The ssh program is a text only program. When I type "firefox3" I get the "Errror: no display specified" I am hoping someone can give me detailed steps. I have read that xterm is not running hence why I am getting the error message. Of course I googled this and really did not get any good responses. I even googled xterm and did a man page on the unix server and it really did not help either.

My thinking is once I get these two things figurede out I can finish up the macro for the F-key.

Thanks.

'ssh' implies that you're not even running the program on the same computer as yours, which complicates things greatly. You can't run firefox in Linux and expect it to start in Windows. Even if you install an X server so the remote server can pop up windows on your screen, firefox will still be running on the server, not your windows machine...

Also -- how is your key macro supposed to know what file you're editing?