Okeydoke

[thebitterguy]

I have decided to go with Firefox, if only because I'm lazy and this way I can post via a little thingy.

I'm lazy, I admit.

powered by performancing firefox

Comments

I often post to my LJ from Firefox too...

[thothmeister.livejournal.com]

- only I use a different extension called Deepest Sender.

Re: I often post to my LJ from Firefox too...

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, I'm giving that a try. I don't like the performancing widget's propensity to mark the posts.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Intriguing add-on idea, that.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

One question: it works with Mac Firefox?

[adamjury.livejournal.com]

Deepest Sender does: http://deepestsender.mozdev.org/installation.html

[it also doesn't include a little "powered by blah" thing on your posts. ;-)

I'm pretty happy with XJournal for OSX. It's a standalone app, and they're generally what I prefer: http://connectedflow.com/xjournal/

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, I didn't know it would actually brand my posts; I've switched to Deepest Sender. I have XJ so I'll see what turns out the best.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. So, aside from MacJournal, there's these two options as well.

Interesting. I suppose some experimentation's called for. Will Deepest Sender work with Firefox 1.5.whatever?

[adamjury.livejournal.com]

Yup, it runs on 1.5 and 2.x

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. It may well come in handy.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I used XJournal, and was happy with it until the chief maintainer gave it up and passed it to another community of maintainers. I stopped using it chiefly because it was an LJ-only tool, and at the time I was also posting to a Blogger blog.

So I switched to using ecto (http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/). It's reasonably good, but it's maintained by one guy. And when Blogger changed, it caught him in between major releases, doing a massive "from the ground up" re-design of his codebase. Ouch. Apparently, he's given in to discretion being the better part of valour, and will soon release a patch to the existing codeline (ecto2) that will be compatible with Blogger, rather than continue to make us dual-engine folks wait for ecto3, which is taking a while to get out the door (no surprise there).

[adamjury.livejournal.com]

MarsEdit is pretty badass. I don't use it for LJ, but I use it to post to multiple WordPress-based blogs, and it's great.

[-auntiesocial-.livejournal.com]

I love Firefox. There are some things that it blocks but for the most part it is so much better than Internet Explorer.

[thebitterguy]

Oh, Internet Explorer hurts us, it does. I don't think I could go back to that.

[troy-duffy.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with that but unfortunately I have to alternate between the two since Firefox has all of a sudden stopped playing imbedded WMVs, saying I'm missing the needed add-ons (giving me what I've now dubbed the Green Puzzle Piece of Death) but not allowing me to install the add-on. Even reinstalling Firefox didn't help.
I also can't get Firefox to launch when I click a link in Outlook Express, so I have to set IE as my default browser.
So yeah, Firefox is still much better and still my browser of choice, unless I'm launching from a link or want to watch an imbeded movie, where a dire conspiracy between Microsoft and Mozilla sends me back to IE. Grumble grumble...

[thebitterguy]

What platform are you using? Because at the current moment, with OSX I've given up on WMV files entirely.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Umm... Justin, you do know about flip4mac (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx), right? That's been purchased by Microsoft and is seemingly being reasonably regularly updated? I've got yer WMV codec right here in my QT player, man!

[thebitterguy]

Well, OBVIOUTHLY I don't know about it, or I'd already have it!

Theriouthly.

Thankth for that.

[adamjury.livejournal.com]

If you don't already have it, VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) is /the/ player for, uh, playing things.

[troy-duffy.livejournal.com]

I'm using XP. And WMV files work fine in most of my external players, and they worked fine embeded in Firefox up to a point a few weeks ago. I'm not sure if I upgraded Firefox or what, but it just stopped playing them and gives me the Green Puzzle Piece of Death.

[adamjury.livejournal.com]

What exactly does Firefox "block" that you need to use? Obviously, it has popup blocking functionality, and that can sometimes interfere with sites that use popups, but it does have a whitelist so you can allow those sites to launch popups.

Firefox doesn't maintain any black-lists that disallow you from visiting any particular sites, or any form of "blocking" like that ...