November 3, 2011
ScribeFire 4 is Available
Filed under: Firefox, Good News Everyone, Google Chrome, Opera, Releases, Safari, ScribeFire -- Christopher Finke @ 09:31pmVersion 4 of ScribeFire for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari is now available. This version includes the following changes:
New Features
- Using OAuth authorization for WordPress.com blogs
- Using OAuth authorization for Blogger blogs
- Added support for “Read more” in LiveJournal blog posts
- Private posts in Posterous
- Upload images by copy and paste (Chrome only)
Google Chrome users, download ScribeFire 4 for Google Chrome here.
Safari users, download ScribeFire 4 for Safari here.
Firefox users, you can download ScribeFire 4 for Firefox here.
Opera users, you can download ScribeFire 4 for Opera here.
November 4th, 2011 at 5:29 am
I do not like change, takes up more room for the same
November 4th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Have reverted back to previous version 3.5.3.3 because this update does not appear to allow saving of posts for retrieval at a later date which seems to defeat its purpose.
November 5th, 2011 at 4:56 am
Makes my Firefox 4.0.1 freeze every time I open the new ScribeFire…
November 5th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Hello “BRAVO FOR your work”
But why did you choose to save the post server ?
That make i can work offline
My config : FF Mac
No i will be please to post you a Collector Tshirt but i want a picture of you wearing IT
November 5th, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Well, you’ve majorly screwed ScribeFire up; it’s locked up three times on three attempts I’ve made to run it, forcing Firefox to have to be shut down completely to recover.
I’m kicking ScribeFire to the curb completely.
Reminds me of the ‘failed’ update you tried months ago. Should’ve left well enough alone!
I’ll check back in a couple months, to see if you’ve managed to ‘get it right’.
Cheers!
November 5th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
Can’t delete posts. Double spaces instead of single. Old version still way better(it works anyways).
November 6th, 2011 at 2:51 am
I will downgrade to the old Version, till the new one is working properly!
Schorsch
November 6th, 2011 at 5:33 am
Today I wrote a long text then inserted a Youtube video. It hung on me, I lost everything I wrote. Great success!
November 6th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Updated without my input to v.4 which caught me by surprise as all my saved posts disappeared. Removed then back installed to previous v3.* to enable access to saved items, blow me logged on today and its updated itself to v.4 ‘without my input’ again and no access to saved items ‘again’. Have uninstalled and will look for an alternative to this once, but no longer great add-on.
November 6th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Is it your policy as a developer to delete comments that criticize your extension as being extremely faulty?
November 6th, 2011 at 9:27 pm
I installed the new version and it ran smoothly… for one day.
The next day I tried to blog a post, but then scribefire reported that there was an error, something about “invalid grant”. So I tried to reentered account info and password and it worked, again only for one day. Next day the same thing happened all over again.
FYI: I am using scribefire on firefox to blog on Blogger.
I know this is a piece of free software so I am not trying to compliant. But I think you want to know there is a problem.
November 7th, 2011 at 10:29 am
Yes, indeed, there are several questions:
- where can i find the ok-button to accept new settings?
- where can i change to the css-formatting used up to now?
- whrere are the tabs?
- how can i close the text-field and open a new one?
- why does the surface change without me being notified before?
- why do you publish software that is not finished?
- how can i change to the old version, that was working satisfyingly?
Best regards!
November 7th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
*gah* I hate unrequested updates! Took me hours to get finally some text blogged. At least give people a choice when to do updates and don’t force them into some buggy beta-stuff.
At the moment I can’t insert pictures in a satisfying way.
First of all it doesn’t prompt a proper link – I have to add the http://myblog.de/ – bit. Then it somehow chokes most of the article-text when I insert a picture and an (almost) empty article is posted.
f8 doesn’t work either.
I’m so much done for today I can’t even have a proper whinge.
November 7th, 2011 at 2:29 pm
I’m with serr8d. I lost HOURS trying to use this worthless turd. What a shame. Scribefire used to make blogging easier and quicker, not incredibly frustrating.
November 8th, 2011 at 9:48 am
Good job Mr. Finke
November 12th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
I was not happy when scribefire auto updated to the latest version. I tried it in beta for a couple of times but always went back to the old version. And that’s what I have done now. It is silly and extremely faulty and lazy not to have copy and paste in right click. Not to mention that uploading images from the computer just hangs there, nothing comes up. These things should have been done first even in the beta period. I’ve gone back to the old version and until Scribefire fixes or adds these simple requests. I’m using the old stuff. Sometimes they are just better!
November 15th, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Although I hate to pile on the criticism for somebody that’s creating a piece of what was once useful software, I’m with the others. The original version was useful the next attempt didn’t work well and this one has too many problems. The latest problem I’m saying is that it keeps asking about Zemanta posts even though I turned it off in the options.
I’d go back to the original version if I was confident that it wouldn’t just try to update itself.
Hope you fix Scribefire
November 18th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Another vote against the new release. The old one works more reliably, has better and more user controls, and most importantly is set up in a way that’s intuitive for me to use. v4 is none of these things, and as a result of the third reason I’m not even going to try to make it work for me when I know the previous release already does what I want, how I want it done. Out with the new, in with the old.
November 23rd, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Gracias por hacer esta versión muy usable que la basada en Scribefire Next. Carga muy rápido y no trae tantas cosas incluidas que me había alejado de Scribefire.
Thank you for your work!
I love Scribefire Classic 4.0.0.1
December 12th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Well, unlike many of the commenter’s above, I found ScribeFire Next 4.0 to be working. Finally, it uploads images from my local drive to my WP blog. Yay!
However, I am still not going to use it (unless I have to). The main feature missing for me is customizable (or programmable) edit keys.
The only blog client I know that has programmable edit keys is w.bloggar (and it is no longer developed, though I still use it). Having shortcut keys to common xhtml tags I use is very important to me. I don’t want to have to type <div class=”special_class”>some text</div>.
For me, this feature is more important that a preview that uses my site’s CSS for rendering.
March 18th, 2012 at 10:34 am
Thanks for this release as usable, fast charge and trouble in firefox
good job
March 23rd, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Hey Christopher Finke,
Big fan man. Been using scribefire for a while. How can I give you some money? If it’ll help you keep up with firefox updates and make it more stable, I’ll give you a bit more!
Thanks dude,
MB
March 23rd, 2012 at 3:36 pm
FYI: Since firefox 11.0, I can’t upload images.