Blogging always needs things that makes it more easier and far interesting than what it normally is. You need to do things that can make you call yourself a geek and not just a blogger. Web browsers are one of those aspects that one concentrates on, while they are blogging. Firefox is the best browser for blogging in wordpress blogs, due to the availability of the add-ons which make the stuff more easier. To become a better blogger, here are a few firefox add-ons that would make things easier to do on your blog - Scribefire Blog Editor – (Add-on Page) One of the best blog editors around, that has some awesome features and integrates into the browser for posting easily into the blog. It has many options like the drag & drop, formatting the text, taking notes, uploading images and even posting into multiple blogs. Even from the same area, you can share the posted page to various social bookmarking and networking sites like Mahalo, Propeller, Reddit, Facebook, Digg, Ma.gnolia, Fark, Stumbleupon, Newsvine etc. The add-on helps us post to various blogging platforms like Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Metaweblog, MovableType, Posterous. Zemanta – (Add-on Page) This add-on enhances the blogging admin panel and the mail compose section, by suggesting recommendations to a topic that you are writing. Zemanta supports WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, Drupal, Tumblr and email platforms Google Mail and Yahoo!Mail. The topics are searched in some of the biggest resources like Wikipedia, IMDB, Crunchbase, Google maps, Amazon etc. Pearltrees – (Add-on Page) It is the social way to organize, discover and share the stuff you like on the web. A pearl is like a bookmark, and it holds something that you like on the web. There are pearltrees which work like the folders for pearls, and you can organize the pearls and move them into the pearltrees. Pick the pearltrees you are most interested in and follow their activity. Shareaholic – (Add-on Page) This add-on helps in sharing links from within the browser, from any webpage into various social bookmarking and social networking sites. The sites include Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Evernote, Delicious, Digg. The add-on is optimized such that it doesn’t slow down the firefox browser. A single click lets us to reach the most frequently used URL shorteners, and you don’t need to bookmark all the sites where you share. It supports more than 100 services. FireFTP – (Add-on Page) FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP/SFTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP/SFTP servers. Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more. There are several other firefox add-ons that provide the job of blog editing but Scribefire is the best of all, and there are a few tools like Screengrab that also helps bloggers with many other things.
Firefox add-ons to make you a better blogger
