Dec 22

Performancing plugin for Firefox

Tag: GeneralRichard @ 9:58 am

Wow, while I was sitting back waiting for Flock to mature, and using Qumana in the meantime, I discovered the Performancing for Firefox extension!
PFF puts a WYSIWYG post editing window right into Firefox, accessed via F8, a PFF SB ICONicon in the status bar, or by right clicking and using the Performancing >> Blog this item.

The main things I am looking for in a blogging tool are:

  1. WYSIWYG (w/ ability to get at HTML when necessary
  2. Integrated image uploading (preferably by drag and drop)
  3. Previous post editing
  4. Categories
  5. Hotkeys for formatting/tools

PFF seems to do 1,3,4, and a passable job at 2, where, like many others, it actually just lets you drag and drop an image and it links to the original referring site (naughty!). It does let you resize the image after it has been inserted, which is pretty slick! (Although again, it’s a bit of a hack, because it uses the size attributes of the IMG link to “resize” on display).

It’s usable and convenient enough that I’ll probably use it fairly often, though Qumana remains in the lead with the new image uploading features available in their drag’n'drop tool.

(And yes Viriginia, this post was done via Performancing :))

(And just to prove you can edit, here’s an update with a link to an excellent tutorial on PFF!

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7 Responses to “Performancing plugin for Firefox”

  1. Nima Haghighi-Mood says:

    Hello Richard,
    I’m sorry I am posting this question here on this post, but unfourtunatly I could not find a contact email and was afraid that if I posted this question in the post that it belongs to, it would go unnoticed. What I want to inform you about is that your plugin ShowOnFrontPage has a dead link. I have tried to download your plugin, but I recieve a 404 error saying that the file does not exist on the server. If you are still offering this plugin, I would appreciate it very much if you updated the link :-D
    Thanks

    Nima Haghighi-Mood

  2. Richard says:

    My bad! I just moved web hosts and that was one file I didn’t put back in its proper place :) Enjoy!

  3. Nima Haghighi-Mood says:

    Thanks very much!

  4. Asa Dotzler says:

    Need spellchecking? The latest development build of SpellBound integrates seamlessly with this blogging tool.

  5. Richard says:

    Asa,

    Thanks for the update :) Hopefully that is not a shot at my spelling skills :) If anyone wants a tester for implementing image upload, be glad to help!

  6. Michael says:

    Richard, I can’t seem to make Performancing work with your ShowOnFrontPage plugin. When I post through Performancing the box to show on front page isn’t checked by default.

  7. Michael says:

    I needed version 3.1. It’s now fine, thanks. Perhaps update the link from the plugins wiki.

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