Performancing for Firefox 1.3.5 released!

Hello everyone, I’m pleased to announce the release of
Performancing for Firefox 1.3.5.

Download it now!

Not to long ago we talked about the Roadmap for the 1.4 release, and what we have in store. However with recent changes in the Blogger.com service, we thought it would be a good idea to have an intermediate release with bugfixes and better Blogger.com support. So here we are with 1.3.5!

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Additions and Fixes:

1) Better Spell-check support in Firefox 2.0. Both Rich and normal editing now have spell-check, along with bug fixes and you can now switch easily between different languages provided you have more
than one dictionary installed

2) Fixed Blogger support. This release now works with both normal and Beta blogger accounts.

3) Added Label (tag) support to blogger. Note this only works with Blogger Beta accounts at this moment. You can add labels to your post via the ‘Categs’ tab. You will see a new button called “Add Category” at the bottom where you can add posts to your account. You can also see what your history items have and change their categories.

4) Improved Account manager. Better auto-detect and added ability to select what blogs
 you want added to your list. i.e. if you have more than on blog under
 the same API and username, before PFF would add them all, now you can
 de-select (while holding down the ctrl key) the ones you don’t want to add.

5) Fixed a Master Password issue. If you have a master password set in Firefox, PFF should now only ask you for your password once.

6) Draft support for Blogger

7) Window Icon for windows and Linux (when opening PFF in a window).

Prevent duplicate tag and ‘powered by …’ insertion in posts.

9) Experimental newMediaObject image and file uploading. For blog systems that support image uploads (MT, wordpress, Drupal, etc.) You can now try the ‘Upload Via API’ button in the image uploading window. Please note this is experimental, if you have issues or it works for you, please let us know so we can improve it.

10) MacOSX Rich Edit view corruption fixed. The cursor should no longer get lost in long posts on MacOSX

Know Issues:

1) Bookmarking to delicious on blogger accounts only works with blogger beta for the time being.
2) Embedding Flash and other Media in a blogger post doesn’t always work. I’ve written an article on on how to embed videos, etc. in blogger here.
3) Long titles in Blogger posts get cut off in history mode. For some reason the history atom feeds we get from blogger only allow an X amount (50 chars I think). So if you edit a post with a long title in PFF, PFF will only load the first 50 chars of it. To fix this for now until Blogger changes this on their side is to copy your original long title and paste it back into pff for post you are editing. This is a know issue by the Blogger devs and should be fixed soon without any needed changes to PFF.

Thank you all who helped us test it in the multiple beta releases, and a thank you to the Blogger team at Google for the great improvements in the latest API and being very responsive to our questions.

For those interested in what will be version 1.4. Head over to the PFF 1.4 Roadmap post and make yourself heard!

As always, if you have any support questions or problems, head to the PFF Forums and we will be sure to help you out!

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Performancing for Firefox Update

Recently I talked about what’s in store for PFF 1.4, and we got a great response.

As you know, we are working hard to get this release out the door as a solid release.

To make sure things go as smooth as before, we’d like to have a series of Beta’s to get your feedback.
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Multiple Beta Releases
Specifically we want to make sure Image Uploading and Blogger support are solid, and we mean rock solid!

A new dev build with improved Blogger support will be going out over the next few days, so if you are Blogger user, or even on the latest Blogger beta, send me a PM with your email address, or express your interest in this thread, and I’ll make sure you get a build to test.

Following the Blogger dev build, we would like to have a beta release for a smaller audience to test out the new Image Uploading capabilities (which are going to Rock!).

Translations
Second on the list are Translations.
We have numerous teams working on Translations for PFF 1.3, Nick recently sent out a call for an update, so we can get locales out to the public.

To take this a step further, we are already starting to think about 1.4. If you would like to be a part of the PFF 1.4 translation release, or would like to help out with the current Translation, jump right into to the Translation Forum and lend a hand.

As always, any bug fixes, problems or requests you would like to see in the upcoming PFF 1.4, we are more than happy to discuss. Thanks to you, Performancing for Firefox will get even better.

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OakFlickr4PFF – PFF Flickr Addon

While we have talked about the new features for the next version of PFF (1.4) including Image-Uploading capabilities , I know some of you really want support now.

So today I’m pleased to announce the OakFlickr4PFF performancing Addon by Chen Zhiyuan for PFF 1.2 and 1.3.

This is an awesome addon that gives direct image uploading to Flickr from PFF.

To use this addon:
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1) First install it, restart firefox, then enable it in the addons section under settings as shown below;

2) Make sure you are logged in to flickr, if not, go to flickr.com and login.

3) You can then use the normal Image Uploading dialog as you would an image url or ftp upload, and choose the new ‘Flickr’ tab.

4) Now click on the browse button, find the image you want to upload, then click the ‘Upload to Flickr’ Button.
   

Done, now you can insert your new image.

Another great thing about this add-on is that will also catch images dragged and droped into pff from your hard drive, or pasted in via the clipboard on publish.

Once again I want to give a huge hand to Zhiyuan for this awesome add-on.

For any problems or issues check out his Step-By-Step Tutorial or post in the forums and we’ll try and help you out.
   

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Performancing for Firefox 1.4 Roadmap

While we are hard at work on creating PFF 1.4, I’d like to take this moment to get some feedback from you all, pff users.

Currently the roadmap looks like this

1. Image Service uploading (flickr, Photobucket, etc.) - An Easy, single interface for uploading images. Also make it easy to add new uploading Services
2. Edit Accounts Dialog - Give easy access to renaming your blog, changing your password, etc.
3. Blogger Beta support - Support for blogger’s latest and greatest  service
4. Import/Export of account settings - Easily back up and import your pff settings
5. Re-do Image Uploading UI - Create a kick-ass image uploading UI where you can easily choose to upload via FTP, your blog’s upload api or a image service (like flickr) 
6. Re-vamp Settings UI - Right now it really looks bad, and has alot of room for improvement.
7. Better Formatting Options - Improve how we generate HTML in the Rich edit mode and add more formatting feature in the context menu (i.e. Font Family, H1, H2, .., )
8. Other small bug-fixing
   

I’d love to hear what you think of this feature set, and any suggestions, or something we are missing.
Specifically how you would like to see Image Uploading work given the options of FTP, Image Services and Blog API Uploading.

With your help, I think PFF 1.4 will be our biggest release yet!

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Performancing Firefox 1.3 Final! – Introducing the Addons and Themes APIs

The release of Performancing Firefox 1.3 brings a whole new dimension to the free open source blog editor. By making PFF extensible via the Themes and Addons API’s, and opening up the source code via subversion, we’re putting the blogosphere’s favorite editor where it belongs, in the hands of it’s users.

As always, once you’ve given it  a spin, head to the forums and let us know what you think

New features in 1.3

• Addons API
• Themes API
• Localizations – We expect to be announcing PFF in other languages shortly!
• Windows Live Spaces support
• Firefox 2.0b1 support
• Firefox 2.0b1 Spellcheck support via hidden pref
• Sidebar collapser for added posting real-estate
• Added Window icon for “Pff in window” mode.
• Bug fixes and stability fixes
1. CSS/HTML editing bug fix
2. Clear content when in Preview mode
3. Fixed Extra Publishing resize bug.
4. Fixed a resize window limitation bug.
5. Made a few stability fixes and speen optimizations.
6. Fixed some strict JS warnings

Install

Install Performancing Firefox 1.3

The PFF Addons API

The Performancing Firefox Addons API allows developers to integrate extensions and enhancements with the PFF blog editing platform. If you want to create new functionality for PFF, or get your service out to bloggers using PFF, then read the full HOWTO Addon Tutorial here

The PFF Themes API

The PFF Themes API allows designers, or anyone with minimal CSS knowlege to either completey transform the look and feel of PFF, or just tweak certain parts of the UI to suit their needs.

The Themes API would be a great advertisment for talented blog designers, and we hope you’ll take up the challenge (see coming posts on that)..

Read the full HOWTO Themes Tutorial here

Enabling Spellcheck in Firefox 2.0b1

If you do this, please let me know if it doesn’t work for you.

Collaper for left side navbar

You can now collapse both the left sidebar and right sidebar to gain more realestate while creating a post.

Windows Icon for PFF In Window

We’ve added the PFF icon to the system tray and window system for when you have PFF in a floating window. Making it much easier to locate.

Be Sure to Tell Us What You Think!

As always, your comments are most welcome and valued. Tell us what you think of the new features, and particulary if you manage to create cool themes or addons with the new apis!

Creating a Theme for PFF 1.3

One of the new features in Performancing Firefox 1.3 allows you to write Addons and Themes. This tutorial will get you started on your first theme for PFF.

Getting Started

1) First, grab the following three themes, and copy them to your hard drive:

• Black Theme
• Naked Theme (a.k.a No theme)
• PFF Default Template Theme
  

2) Open up PFF into a Tab in firefox or flock  (right click the toolbar icon and choose to open in tab)

3) Click on the “Settings” nav bar button then the ‘Theme’ tab

3) Click on the ‘Add’ button, or drag and drop the .css files onto the tab one by one.
You should then see all 4 themes installed.

4) Select the diferent themes and enable them to see them in action.

5) Decide what theme you would like to start off with. I recommend starting with the ‘Template Theme’ so you can see what the pff css looks like and what you can modify.

6) Copy the template_theme.css file to a new location and rename it.
    For this example I’m calling mine ‘mytheme.css‘.

7) Open the mytheme.css file in your favorite text editor (Mine is jEdit).

Leaving it in the exact format it’s in now, change the the following:


####################################
# @type: PFF Skin
####################################
# @name: My Theme
# @author: Jed Brown
# @desc: My First Theme
# @ver: 1.0
# @lddef: true
# @ver: 1.0
# @pffver: 1.3
####################################


You’ll notice I only changed the values of ‘@name’, ‘@Author’ and ‘@desc’
Please change those values and only those values for the time being.

9) Now add the mytheme.css file to the pff theme list (drag and drop or using the ‘add’ button.

Select your theme (“My Theme” in my example) and enable it.

9) Locate your Firefox Profile (see Locate your profile folder)
    then go to the performancing\skins\ directory.
     i.e. On windows mine looks something like this:

C:\Documents and Settings\Jed\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ajybcm75.pff\performancing\skins\

10)  You should see mytheme.css there now. Close your old version of mytheme.css and open the version from this directory.
You are done, you have now created your first PFF Theme!

Understanding the CSS file

Now that you have the mytheme.css open in your favorite editor, let the fun begin.
The template theme is heavily documented at the begining of the file, however I will go over the basics in details here.

The Requirements:

For a css file to be a PFF Theme, it must contain 7 key information bits.

1. @type – This says it’s a pff theme, the value has to be “PFF Theme”
2. @name- This is the Theme’s name (i.e. My Theme)
3. @author – This is your name (i.e. Jed Brown)
4. @desc – This a description of the Theme(i.e. My FIrst PFF Theme)
5. @ver – This the version number (i.e. 1.0)
6. @lddef – This defines if the default pff theme should be on or not. (defaults to true)
7. @pffver – Specifies the lowest version of PFF this theme is compatible with.

Let me explain #6 a bit more with an example.

If you are only going to make minor changes to the theme, like I have in the ‘Black’ theme, you would want to keep lddef (load default) on, as it will load the default pff theme first, then your custom theme. For example, I will do this in the mytheme.css file as I only want to add some small changes, effectivley overwritting some of the default theme, as opposed to recreating it from scratch.

This is great so that you don’t have to re-code every element in pff to get a functional theme.
If however you do want to start from zero set lddef to false.
This is what the ‘naked‘ theme has done. lddef is false and does not have any css at all (empty).

Open it up if you don’t believe me .

So for the sake of this tutorial, lets assume I want to keep the PFF Default theme loaded and I want to make some changes to it.

Finding elements to style

The theme we are editing (Template theme now called ‘My Theme’), has the exact code from the default pff theme. It’s there for you to look over and get an idea of what is styled, etc.

For this tutorial I am going to remove all the styles from this mytheme.css file and start adding my own css.

Now with PFF in a tab in my firefox browser (right click the toolbar icon and choose to open in tab or type in the url: chrome://performancing/content/editor.xul )

Either hit “Ctrl-Shift-i” or go to “Tools->Dom inspector”.

This will launch Firefox’s Dom Inspector with PFF as the target

(if you don’t have the dom inspector, re-install firefox and select “custom” from the install options and enable the ‘Dome inspector’ from the tools section.)

Inspect an element

So for this tutorial, I want to change the Navigational button on the left side of PFF.
From the dom inspector window i click on the inspection () icon and click on the navbar tab I want to see.
(In the image below, I clicked on the ‘editor’ tab to inspect it)

So now i see a bunch of very usefull information

1. The xul:box’s parent id is ‘performancing-editor-tab’.
2. It’s class is ‘performancing-navbuttons-small’

Cool. Now I could search for these properties in the template theme to see what is already there, or, in this example of mytheme.css I’m going to dive right in and see what I can do.

In my editor, I paste in the following:
Code:



.performancing-navbuttons-small{
font-size: x-small;
color: red;
background-color: blue;
}




jEdit Screenshot:

I save the file then hit refresh () in firefox (refresh button or F5) and..

… we see the changes live. Wasn’t that easy?!

I can do other nifty stuff like:



.performancing-navbuttons-small:hover{
  font-size: large;
  color: yellow;
  background-color: black;
}


Now when i hover over a navbar I get this (yeah it’s ugly, but it’s an example):

I can do other cool stuff from information I get from the dom inspector like say,
any child of the navbar vbox that is a box should have a black background.
code:


#performancing-navbar-tabs > box{
 background-color: black;
}

result:

Remember, Firefox supports a whole boat load of CSS 1, 2 and 3 features.
So go ahead and use Type selectors, Child Selectors, Descendant Selectors, and all the other goodies. to make your life easier.

Using Images in your css file

So, now I showed you how to make a plain jane .css theme for PFF, but what about images?

Well you have two choices

1. Use urls to an image from a site or your harddrive
2. Packed images with your theme

Ideally you want to do #2, however for sake of easyness or testing you might want to do #1 first before you decide to package it.

In my theme, I want to change the insert image toolbar icon () with this one

code:



#image-button{
list-style-image: url('http://performancing.com/files/insertimage-icon2.png');
}


Done, damn that was easy!

Now, assuming i want to package my theme and give it to someone, I don’t want them downloing that image from my server every time they open up PFF.

So let’s make a theme package for PFF!

Making a Theme Package

While we are in our theme folder in our profile, it’s easy to add local files.
First, for a valid package, we need to create a new folder that has the same name as our .css file

My Theme’s file name is mytheme.css, so I create a directory called mytheme\
(..\performancing\skins\mytheme\)


I drop the insertimage-icon2.png in there and change mytheme.css to the following:
#image-button{
list-style-image: url('mytheme/insertimage-icon2.png');
}

Cool. So what does that mean?
It means anything I drop into that directory, all I need to access it is mythemename/someimage.png
You can also have folders inside of there. I might have this for example:
 i.e. mytheme/ui-images/myicon.png

and all I’d have to do is:
#image-button{
list-style-image: url('mytheme/ui-images/myicon.png');
}

Awesome, but what about the package?
All you have to do is zip up the mytheme.css file with it’s corresponding folder.
As an example, my new zip file looks like this:
        mytheme.zip
                  \mytheme.css
                  \mytheme\insertimage-icon2.png

So to refrase, the requirements for a theme package are;

1. The .css file name and directory name have to be the same
2. Only said .css and directory can be in the parent level

You can download my packaged mytheme.zip theme and a modified version of my black theme ‘black_byjed.zip‘. They both contain the new ‘toolbar image’ icon.

That’s it!
Easy to distribute .css or .zip files for your new PFF theme!

To install your theme and test it out, all you have to do is either drag and drop it onto the Theme settings or use the ‘add’ button and select the zip file.

Any questions, comments or corrections please post here!

Enjoy

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Upcoming in Performancing for Firefox

As we’ve talked about before, the next version of Performancing for Firefox is just around the corner.
Originally it was going to be a quick release to add Arabic Localization, Right-to-Left (RTL) support and the Publishing options bug fix, however we have decided to go a bit farther for this release.

New in the upcoming release:

1. Localization (more languages)
2. Right-to-Left (RTL) support
3. API for easy customising
4. API for easy skinning (more on these last two below)

As Nick recently mentioned we are looking for translating partners so that this next version of PFF can reach a larger group of users in their own language.

Specifically if you know of, or work with a non-english Blogging community that would be interested in promoting PFF and assisting with the translation, send them our way. Even if you don’t, individual translators are welcome and encouraged to sign up and help out.

We are aiming to finalize the UI strings by the end of the weekend so leave a comment, or PM me if you are interested.

The Current Localization Teams Are:

Romanian

• Bobby

Portugese

• Jo’o
• Ricardo
• Nuno
• Leo

Dutch

• Eljo
• Ruben

Italian

• Nicola

French

• Simon

German

• Thorsten

Spanish

• Mariano
• Jed Brown

Chinese

• Kar

Turkish

• mersenne

Arabic

• Done!

As you can see, there are still plenty of languages that are missing.

Theme (skin) API

One of the new features will be CSS themes.
Basically we will allow you to easily create a new .CSS file and load it into PFF to change the way it looks. The main idea here is to have fun customizing pff’s look with the possibility of creating a new default pff theme.

Customization API

As with the Skin API, we’d like to make it easy for the comunity to ‘extend’ PFF and create new tabs with your own content.
The key here is to make it easy to add content, yet provide the user with control to easily install, enable and disable them.
A few simple examples someone could create off the top of my head

• Embed FireFTP in PFF
• Add an EBAY tab to track your auctions
• Web Authoring tools for easy blogging like color pickers, css references, etc.
• You idea here!…

We are interested in your feedback and if you’d find this useful at all or have any suggestions.

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Performancing Firefox 1.2 Final!

    After a great beta run, we are pleased to announce the release of Performancing for Firefox 1.2.

    We hope you enjoy this release, as it brings some more key functionallity and stability to performancing to make your blogging even better.

As always, once you’ve given it  a spin, head to the forums and let us know what you think.

Update: I’ve added a section on getting inline spellchecking in Firefox and PFF.

New features in 1.2

1. Image FTP Upload
2. Basic Metrics Chart viewing
3. Blogger.com improvements (Currently there are issues with the blogger.com service)
4. API url autodetect
5. Much improved stability and performance.
6. Fixed PFF from promting password on firefox startup (for masterpassword users)
7. Optional “Powered by Performancing” tag insertion.
8. Better category support for other blogging platforms.
9. Quick File FTP upload (under Performancing in the context menu).
10. Bug fixes for trackbacks.

Install

Install Performancing Firefox 1.2

Image Upload

In PFF click on the Image Insert button on the toolbar.

You will then be prompted with the following window:

Click on the “Upload to FTP” Option and click the ‘browse’ button to locate the image you would like to upload.
If you haven’t done so yet, click on the ‘Settings’ tab and configure your FTP settings.

Now go back to the ‘General’ tab and click on “upload image” to start the upload process

Once successfull your new URL will be generated.
You can either Copy the URL manually or click on the ‘Insert Image’ button to add it to your current posts content.

Note:
Image and File FTP uploading is currently limited to one FTP profile
configuration, multiple profiles will be added to the next beta or
version release.

API Autodetect

A new addition to the Account Wizard is ‘autodetect’.
While you can still manually configure your blog account, PFF will try and find your API URL and settings for most common blogs.

First enter your blog URL into the textbox:

Then click next or “Check URL”

If your blog settings were found, you will presented with the API URL and blog settings.

Note: Please
note that autodetect support may not work on many different blog
platforms, specifically Drupal, Old MovableType installations, and a
few others.

Quick File Upload

Along with FTP Image upload, we have added a very usefull utility called “File FTP Upload”.
You can access it from the main Firefox context menu under “Performancing -> FTP File Upload”.

Once launched you will be presented with a dialog very similar to the ImageFTP Upload dialog.
Click on “Browse” to select the file you would like to upload.
Once uploaded you can either copy the URL that was generated, or click the “Copy URL to Clipboard” button.

Blogger.com improvements

In previous version of PFF, you would frequently get an error returned from the blogger.com service called Error #3.

We’ve fixed this, and you should now have a much more seemless interaction with blogger.com. Thanks to our community member Theo for helping us with the fix.

Installing Spellcheck

Many have expressed their interest in Spellcheck integration with PFF, please follow the following steps to successfully get inline spellcheck to work in Firefox 1.5.x and PFF.

1. Uninstall any version of Spellbound you have installed then restart firefox.
2. Install this version of spellbound (spellbound-dev_20060108.xpi)
3. Restart Firefox
4. Try typing into a text field and misspell a word, it should now be underlined.
5. It it is, hold the ‘Ctrl-key’ down and left-click on the word to see the suggested spellings
6. If it didn’t work (no red underline), go into the extension manager (Tools->Extensions) and go into the Spellbound preferences and make sure you have a dictionary selected. If you don’t have any dictionaries installed then go HERE to install more dictionaries.

Let us know if you run into any issues.

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Performancing Firefox 1.2 Beta Released

    With all the Metrics hype (and much deserved, I love it!), don’t think we’ve forgotten about our PFF Blogging extension.
We’ve been reading all of the forum posts, listening to all of the requests and bug reports, and while we haven’t been able to implement them all (heck, we need to leave some work to do for the next version ), 1.2 should be a huge update.

To make sure we’ve really gotten this release done, we are asking that you, our members take this first beta for a spin and tell us what you like and don’t like, what doesn’t work like we said it does and any improvements that you think should make this release (please keep large requests for the forums for the next version).

New features in 1.2beta1

1. Image FTP Upload
2. Basic Metrics Chart viewing
3. Blogger.com improvements (Currently there are issues with the blogger.com service)
4. API url autodetect
5. Much improved stability and performance.
6. Fixed PFF from promting password on firefox startup (for masterpassword users)
7. Optional “Powered by Performancing” tag insertion.
8. Better category support for other blogging platforms.
9. Quick File FTP upload (under Performancing in the context menu).
10. Bug fixes for trackbacks.

Download and install Performancing Firefox 1.2 Beta

While we believe this beta is on par with the quality of our official releases, since it has not yet been in the hands of more than a few people, we do ask that you create a new Firefox profile for testing this beta release and report back any issues or problems you may have.

Image Upload

In PFF click on the Image Insert button on the toolbar.

You will then be prompted with the following window:

Click on the “Upload to FTP” Option and click the ‘browse’ button to locate the image you would like to upload.
If you haven’t done so yet, click on the ‘Settings’ tab and configure your FTP settings.

Now go back to the ‘General’ tab and click on “upload image” to start the upload process

Once successfull your new URL will be generated.
You can either Copy the URL manually or click on the ‘Insert Image’ button to add it to your current posts content.

Note:
Image and File FTP uploading is currently limited to one FTP profile
configuration, multiple profiles will be added to the next beta or
version release.

API Autodetect

A new addition to the Account Wizard is ‘autodetect’.
While you can still manually configure your blog account, PFF will try and find your API URL and settings for most common blogs.

First enter your blog URL into the textbox:

Then click next or “Check URL”

If your blog settings were found, you will presented with the API URL and blog settings.

Note: Please
note that autodetect support may not work on many different blog
platforms, specifically Drupal, Old MovableType installations, and a
few others.

Quick File Upload

Along with FTP Image upload, we have added a very usefull utility called “File FTP Upload”.
You can access it from the main Firefox context menu under “Performancing -> FTP File Upload”.

Once launched you will be presented with a dialog very similar to the ImageFTP Upload dialog.
Click on “Browse” to select the file you would like to upload.
Once uploaded you can either copy the URL that was generated, or click the “Copy URL to Clipboard” button.

Blogger.com improvements

• While we have implemented Blogger.com improvements to allow posting rich content from pff, at the moment Blogger.com is having some issues that they are trying to fix that will stop posting to Blogger blogs for a little while.
  Unfortunatly this applies to all blogging products that use the blogger.com ATOM API for posting.

  A temporary work around is to use the old blogger API, however the pitfall of using it is the lack of support for the title field (stupid api), meaning all your posts will be untitled.

  To use the old bloggerAPI, follow the following instructions:

• Launch the Account Wizard and click on ‘Manually Configure’.
• Choose ‘Custom Blog’ from the drop down menu, then next.
• Choose ‘Blogger API’ from the drop down menu and add http://www.blogger.com/api as the Server API URL
• Use your normal blogger.com username and password and you should be good to go.

Sorry for the inconvenience, hopefully we will hear from Google/Blogger soon with more information on when a fix will be available.

Performancing Firefox 1.1 Delicious/Technorati Release!

Performancing for Firefox 1.1

That’s right, as Nick promised last week, we’ve launched Performancing for Firefox 1.1!

So what’s new in this release?
Read on for a complete walk-through of what 1.1 has to offer.

New features

• More Technorati Support
• Delicious integration
• Trackback support (including auto-discovery)
• Draft support (and default to draft option)
• Ping support
• Statusbar Icon Enhancments (drag and drop)
• More Settings Options
• Full metaWeblog API implementation, now working in Roller, blogharbor, and many more
• Lots of Bug Fixes
• Logging in from account wizard now times out if connection fails
  
• More informative Blogger.com error reporting
• Hitting a tab twice no longer looses data.
• Less confusing automatic technorati tag adding
• Numerous metaWeblog API fixes
• Edit post now conserves original dateCreated parameter
  
• Issues with setting and editing categories (drupal still has issues).
• New posts no longer created when editing a post (on WP)
• Preview links now open in a new tab
• Spaces are now possible in technorati tags
• Wordpress 2.0 support
• Many more small bugs

Also new to this release:

• Support and Documentation
• PFF Buttons and Banners

Support and Documentation

Also for this release, Chris has put together a great handbook, dealing with topics from What PFF Is to using Technorati, Installing Spellcheck, Adding your own blog, and lots more.

If you find a bug in version 1.1 please head over to the Project tracker and file a bug report!

Buttons and Banners

As you might know, we just concluded our Performancing for Firefox Design Competition.
We had some great entries into the competition and even better winners!

Congrats to Wayde Christie for winning and providing us with these awesome designs

More will come once we get a page up with all the available buttons you can use.

Additional Technorati Support

If you thought technorati tags were cool, now when you click on the ‘Page Tools’ button, you will get Technorati stats and incoming links for the current page you are viewing

See Handbook entry Technorati Support in Peformancing for Firefox for more information.

Del.icio.us Integration

Not only can you easily bookmark anypage you have loaded to Delicious, and easily search your tags, you can also bookmark your posts using your technorati tags from the Publishing Options sidebar.

See Handbook entry Del.icio.us Support in Performancing for Firefox for more information.

TrackBack Support

We now offer trackbacks support.

Simply enter the urls you want to trackback in a comma seperated list and on publish we will send a trackback request.

See Handbook entry Sending Trackbacks from Performancing for Firefox for more information.

Draft Support

This was one of the most requested features.
To post an entry as a draft, check the ‘Post as Draft’ checkbox in the ‘Publishing Options sidebar’.

(If you havn’t already you’ll need to enable this sidebar in the settings under ‘Show extra publishing features’)

See Handbook entry Posting As Draft for more information.

PingSupport

For ping support, you first must enable Pings, then select your chosen pinging service from the options that will appear.

Statusbar Button Enhancments

Now if your not happy with the location of the PFF StatusBar Icon
You can easily change it’s location.

First click on the icon and drag it to your prefered location, be that somewhere else on the statusbar or in any of your other toolbars. You will see a red bar indicating where it will be placed in release.

More Settings Options

We now offer a more complete list of options, from hiding features you might not use like Delicious or Technorati to enabling Drafts by default.

Technorati Tags: performancing, blogging