Oct

24

(2006)

Firefox 2 with Performancing

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Like just about everyone else with an active TCP/IP stack, I grabbed a copy of Firefox 2.0 today. It feels much cleaner and faster than before, and the spelchecker is definitely welcome (making it feel more like a MacOSX browser, where all other browsers have had spelcheking for ages…)

As part of the upgrade, it grabbed new versions of my extensions, including Performancing. Poking around in the PFF 1.3 settings, I notice it’s got its own concept of plugins. Including one that takes any local images used in a blog post and hucks them into Flickr on demand. mwaaaAAH? I’ve just got to try that sucker. How about a screenshot of Firefox 2.0 with PFF 1.3? Here goes… command+3, then drag the resulting image into place and resize by dragging the corner widgets…



Update: It didn’t handle resizing as expected (or at all – no way to select one of the Flickr-generated sizes, only original), and using a 1280×854 screenshot inline in a blog entry would be evil. But it works. Cool. Dragging the image from Flickr directly into PFF solves the problem nicely.

And PFF seems to have lost all of the strange text rendering bugs I was seeing under Firefox 1.x.

Update 2: PFF still doesn’t seem to successfully set categories/tags on my Drupal site. Don’t know if that’s a problem with PFF or Drupal (or both). Not fatal, but inconvenient.

Update 3: How does the image FTP upload work?

Update 4: OK. I got categories working! Woohoo! The trick is to set Drupal to use the MetaWeblog API, and tell PFF to connect to a Drupal site. Seems to work like a charm.

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3 Responses to “Firefox 2 with Performancing”

  1. Paul R. Pival says:
    October 27, 2006 at 7:59 am

    Interesting, just happened to try the same thing with my desktop machine, which I have not yet upgraded to FF2, though it does already have Performancing 1.3 installed. Drag and drop works there too, so it does seem to be the 1.3 that’s key, not necessarily FF. The point will be moot within the hour :-)

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  2. dnorman says:
    October 27, 2006 at 8:10 am

    Yeah. The features were added in PFF 1.3, and have nothing to do with FF2. For some reason, PFF’s text rendering under FF2 was quirky enough that I couldn’t really use it much before.

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  3. Raj says:
    October 24, 2006 at 10:31 pm

    Thanks for point out that plugin, I’ll be sure to poke around with it – it’s certainly easier than having a tab open and logged in all the time.

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