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

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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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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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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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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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MySpace PFF Addon 0.3alphaAs promissed in the MySpace Alpha thread,

I've just uploaded the new 0.3 alpha with the following enhancements:

• View Blog and Publish To is now part of the default PFF buttons. When Myspace mode is enabled the button will be Orange instead of blue
• If you have 'Insert powered by Performancing' enabled, the plugin will check to make sure it doesn't already exist in your post before adding it. (The next version of pff will do this as well)
• It should now time out after a few minutes if myspace doesn't respond and will notify you. (this needs testing)
• 12:30 Noon was understood by the plugin as 12:30AM, this has been fixed.
• The MySpace Toolbar button now shows it's toggled state for easier identification if the mode is enabled or not.
• It will now alert you if you try and post to myspace without a Title (myspace won't allow this).

These were all suggestions made by you testers, so if you have any more suggestions or issues, please post back and we'll try and make it happen.

Specifically I need you all to make sure that toggling back and forth between normal blogs and myspace works and is intuitive.

Thank you everyone who has taken time to test the first version and those who plan to test this one.

Update: I've re-uploaded the 0.3 build (now called pffmyspace_0.3alpha_rev1.xpi pffmyspace_0.3alpha_rev2.xpi), I noticed the first build had a small issue where switching out of myspace mode didn't always revert to your selected blog.

Update 2: I've created a quick ScreenCast for Installing and using the MySpace Addon.
Feedback most appreciated, even if you think it's terrible and useless.

Update 3: With a bit of insomnia, I went ahead and fixed a few spelling issues and added the MySpace Emotion Icons to the 'More Options' new build is now rev2.

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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

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Two 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 Add-on for PFF.

PFF Add-ons are basically Firefox extensions tailored for PFF integration, so this tutorial assumes you know a bit of XUL, CSS and Javascript.

In reality you can get away without knowing any XUL for the time bein as it's really easy to get a hold of as you go along. A small bit of Javascript knowledge is really all you need (and a zip manager like winrar, 7-zip or winzip).

Getting Started

1) First, grab the following two Add-ons for PFF 1.3

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1. FireFTP for PFF
2. PFF Add-on Template

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:

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

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)

    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

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    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.

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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.

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The beta version (1.0) of our PFF extension seems to have been a huge success thanks to all of you.

As you can probably image, the hardest part that comes with a successful welcome, is keeping track of all the feedback and comments in the forms, the new bug tracker and the huge blogsphere that keeps on talking about it, not to mention the countless e-mails we have received.

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Nick keeps bugging me to blog, so here it is, direct from the PFF extension.
Keeping track of all the support posts in the forums, comments made on other blogs and emails regarding PPF is not an easy task.
Fortunately for me, a lot of the questions are the same, so I thought I would take this opportunity to explain how 'I' use PFF, and how to maximize your blogging output with this tool. As most of you might know, I'm the PFF author, so hell yeah, I'm biased ;).

This post will be divided into the following categories so you can easily jump around and test it out for yourself as you read along;

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