I’m testing it… Look’s very nice.

Just a quick note to say after playing around with the beta of Firefox 3 I’m making a permanent change towards it. I’ve been using Camino of late. But this Firefox build looks superb.

I downloaded and installed Firefox 3 Beta 1 today as it would seem so did lots of other people. I am a bit out of the loop on Firefox development and I wasn’t really sure what the new version had that was new. And I didn’t really care to be honest — I don’t use Firefox at the moment (I’m using Camino instead).

 Anyway: I don’t want to comment on the new features as I don’t know what they are. But I will say that if you install the prototype of the mac theme — which is not installed by default but there are instructions re: how to do it on the Firefox Start page — the browser looks really nice.

Blogging. What a phenomenon. Not in the way that you think I mean either. Yeah sure it is amazing that suddenly everyone can write anything that anyone else can read instantly. That is cool. But I really for this post want to focus on the hug number of methods there are by which I can blog. It is tricky to chose between them. I can blog from my Flickr account. Which is good for doing images that I am hosting myself, as their is no bandwidth worries with it. I can blog from Digg. Which is good if the story from Digg sparks the post. I can blog direct using the software that powers the blog by logging into my server. It is a nice way of doing it. You get all the options, and can modify the theme while you are there. I do this sometimes. Mainly however, I blog with Performancing.

Performancing is an extension for Firefox that allows any user to easily blog to any blog from any site at all. That is because it is built in to the browser. You simply hit F8, and there you go. Get blogging. It is a good system. And the latest version is much improved so you can post straight to your del.icio.us bookmarks as well as blogging. It is also integrated with technorati. Although I don’t tend to use this service. I notice that it also works well with the categories that come with WordPress blogs like mine. Excellent.

Target Alert is a great extension for Firefox. It lets you know the nature of the content that you are about to click. Is it word doc? normal webpage? pdf? email address? are you leaving a secure area? or entering one? will it be in a new page? or is it an “in page” link? All these questions are beautifully answered by the brilliant extension from Michael Bolin.

Just got a Google Alert through about a list of 50 Firefox Extensions (linked via addict3d) and one of them caught my eye. A FTP Client called FireFTP. So far it is awesome, and it will probably replace SmartFTP and CoreFTP as my software for updating my site. Maybe also as my backup tool…

Since I wrote this post I have changed hosts. And I now use the Smart FTP client much more than FireFTP. It is still a good program though.

This entry was posted using the new, and totally awesome Firefox extension from Performancing. Believe all the hype. It is brilliant.

I have now done a full review of Perfromancing. Read it.