Blog editor for firefox

I installed scribefire and I was amazed how good it is. I'v used flock for blogging which is great but I don't use all of its features so I stay with the fox. Anyway I wanted something to post to a blog from firefox. Nothing fancy. Just something that would do the job. Instead I find a fully featured blog editor extension.

From Scribefire's website:
ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted
text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.

www.scribefire.com

Open links in a tab with a left click

A little hack for firefox with greasemonkey.
If you want to open a link in a new tab on a laptop you may find it hard. No middle button! You have to spend time right clicking and going to 'open link in a new tab'. However there is a simple greasemonkey script to open links in a new tab with a short half a second hold. You can also hold control + left click.

To download the greasemonkey add on visit:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

For the script visit userscripts at
userscripts.org/scripts/show/3458

Epiphany web browser

I love Firefox just as much as any other open source geek, I like the Mozilla gecko engine, it renders pages fast and properly unlike IE. A few days ago I noticed a blog post on some blog (cant remember it) calling Mozilla for there to be a Firefox lite. Well if anyone really wants a lite Firefox there is Epiphany. Of course you will need gnome. Though I run it within fluxbox with gnome installed. I have used it once before along time ago and I wasn't impressed by it all. I guess I was stuck in my ways with Mozilla and Netscape navigator. After trying it today I am confidant to say I like it.

Its the fastest GUI browser I have working on a 1ghz, 256mb celeron. I think its a little quicker than Firefox to load but it defiantly beats Firefox on loading pages.

It features

• Gecko engine (used by FireFox)
• Smart address bar / Google search
  
• FireFox 2 like tabs
  
• Security / privacy options
• Extensions such as ad blocking and smart bookmarks
  
• Nice zoom feature
• Customizable toolbar
  

I just miss the search plugins for wikipedia and ubuntu packages. I haven't yet fully understood how the spell checker works if there is one. But hey generally I like this browser.
To install it look for the epiphany-browser package or
sudo apt-get install epiphany-browser

What the hell is a Foxkeh!?

" Foxkeh is a mascot created by Mozilla Japan to help introduce Firefox to new users in Japan. "

...Oh right uhm I knew that, why didn't you!
www.foxkeh.com

Portable applications

Take your office package, email and browser with you on your USB stick. I wanted to take a portable verison of firefox so I download this. I got the flash plugin installed, I also installed the google bookmark plugin so I could take my bookmarks with me.
Applications included are firefox (brower), thunderbird (email client), Sunbird (calendar) and more (as seen below)


You can download this application suite from portableapps.com. For free of course

Tags: Portable applications, apps, USB, memory, mozilla, dnh500

Firefox: use the tabs!

I see a number of people not using firefox tabs for new window links. It makes surfing less messy, which is one of the reasons IE users moved to firefox.

The image below shows you the tick box to force new windows to open in a new tab. (Options, tabs)