Comments on: ScribeFire vs DeepestSender: One Blogging Addon to Rule Them All!

By: qo

qo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:16:37 +0000

Opps, nevermind my last post. There’s a tab closure button on the far right top of the editing window…

By: qo

qo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:06:15 +0000

Also, another thing that’s been bugging me about ScribeFire until about 5 minutes ago…

Once a tab for an existing blog entry is opened in the editor window, there didn’t seem to be a way to close it without actually posting, or deleting, the blog entry (at least on a Mac and using the NASA Night theme in Firefox). That is, the tabs don’t include close buttons.

I just discovered after trying various things that clicking on a tab with the middle mouse button (aka scroll wheel) closes the tabs (cheapo USB Logitech mouse connected to a PowerBook running OSX 10.5.4). Your mileage may vary.

By: qo

qo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:59:03 +0000

Not sure if ScribeFire could work in a separate tab at the time the above was written, but it can now :-) And, bonus, the editing area is much larger when used in a tab.

Happy blogging!

By: martin english

martin english — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:07:01 +0000

FWIW, one of the reasons I’ve been looking for a new blogging editor is that the Live Writer plugin I used to use doesn’t work in release 3 of firefox. Its not just a matter of updating the version number either :).

So, thanks, both for this tool and others I’ve found through your sites.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:12:56 +0000

I have a quick comment regarding the shortcuts. You can use shortcuts within Wordpress editor as well. Check out the list of commonly used shortucts on http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/07/22/wordpress-keyboard-shortcuts/

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:43:32 +0000

Also my fault – as the editor, I should have caught it. It’s changed now. Thanks! :-)

By: Lee Mathews

Lee Mathews — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:08:44 +0000

Yeah, sorry…that’s my brain at work…I considered it a vertical split because it divides the height of he window in half…In hindsight, it does seem a little goofy.

Horizon = horizontal…Nice catch!

By: Leisureguy

Leisureguy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:23:48 +0000

It sure looks to me as though Scribefire splits the Firefox window in half horizontally, not vertically.

My problem with Scribefire was that it seemed to insert hard carriage returns that broke the lines badly when the text was posted. Going through the post in the WordPress editor to remove the returns was harder than just writing the post in WordPress to begin with.

By: Lee Mathews

Lee Mathews — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:49:13 +0000

That was one of the big determining factors for me, too. I want the option of editing in OR out of my browser window. ScribeFire can, Live Writer can’t. I love flexibility!

By: Ken Burkes

Ken Burkes — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:00:34 +0000

Scribefire is my favorite as well. I just like using it because it’s so easy to look up information in your browser and type up a blog post at the same time, rather than alt-tabbing all the time to switch from Windows Live Writer to whatever I’m researching. Scribefire should definitely be in every blogger’s toolbox.