ScribeFire 2.0.1
I was just doing a little poking through the latest of Nightly of Firefox, as I often do, and took a peak in the Add-ons manager’s Recommended Add-ons tab. I noticed ScribeFire (née Performancing) was sitting there with a new version number and a spiffy-looking screenshot so I decided to give it a whirl.
Normally I do my blogging with Ecto. It’s decent software though still in beta for version 3.0. I like Ecto a lot and will likely continue to use it. I enjoy using external apps for writing – call me old-school. I can take it.
So it is with some interest that I’m trying out ScribeFire. This is not a simple “here’s your blogs post page in a sidebar” kind of extension. This is a full blog-editing application built in XUL and embedded within Firefox. It appears to have a bunch of other features as well, allowing you to publish web-pages to a variety of sharing services like Digg or Facebook. It also has del.icio.us integration allowing bookmarking bookmarking and tag-searching from within it. This feature alone is useful as del.icio.us hasn’t updated their Firefox add-ons as of this writing for version 3.0. That said, the del.icio.us integration in ScribeFire feels a little crude.
As a blog-editor, it seems pretty feature-ful. It supports editing pages in Wordpress (a feature only recently added to Ecto) and embedding flickr or youtube links. The included search tools for grabbing images from flickr or videos from youtube does seem a bit limiting though. They are basic and you might do better to actually find the content you were interested in on those services yourself.
ScribeFire feels like a very reasonable blog-editing application. It gets the job done and seems to support most of the editing features I would want. Edits are easy (I’ve edited this twice now) and the sharing integration for Digg also feels pretty decent. Because it’s built on top of Firefox, a lot of the integration with third-party sites is essentially seamless, allowing you to use your login credentials for those sites right in Firefox. Awesome stuff!
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