When you think of blogging, performancing isn’t exactly the first word that comes to mind. If you do blog, and you are a Firefox user, the two words might be closer than you might think. The new Performancing extension for Firefox gives you browser a super charge of publishing power.

So what is this Firefox extension all about?

Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.

Performancing for Firefox is for Firefox 1.5 and above only. We’ve made use of a number of cool new features within Firefox 1.5, so you’ll need that version of Firefox to try it.

Thanks to this helpful extension, you no longer have to jump from your browser to your blogging client. You no longer have to run two Web pages just to get one task done. you can start blogging about something the minute you see it. All you need to do is hit the F8 key or use the status bar icon. From there your browser will split into two and you will be ready to write. The interface is clean and simple and shouldn’t be a problem to learn.

The only place where I’d like to see them expand is to offer more choices when it comes to your blogging engine of choice. I would really like to use this extension, but at the time of writing this I didn’t see any support for Blogware. There are a few more engines that are missing from the list as well.

All in all, this is a great tool for any publisher out there to use. Anything that increases your productivity is alright in my book, so give it a shot and let me know what you think.

Tags: firefox, extensions, blogs, writing