Last week, I mentioned that development had begun on ScribeFire for Google Chrome. Here’s an update on the progress that has been made:

• Support for adding/editing/removing Wordpress, Blogger, and Tumblr blogs.
• Support for publishing new posts, editing existing posts, and deleting existing posts.
• Support for adding categories and tags.
• Support for saving entries as drafts.

In fact, this entire post was written and published from the testing version of ScribeFire for Chrome, so you can see that it is very much functional.

The coming week will bring more of the major features from ScribeFire for Firefox into ScribeFire for Chrome. Watch this space for links to alpha and beta versions as soon as they are available.

Development has begun on ScribeFire for Google Chrome. Watch this space for updates and links for alpha and beta testers.

A beta version of the next update to ScribeFire is now available for testing. If you enjoy running bleeding edge software and finding and reporting bugs, then this update is for you.

Install ScribeFire 3.5.1b1 from Google Code

A list of the changes since version 3.5 can be found here; please report any issues you find here.

One of the most common bugs reported for ScribeFire is a variation on this theme:

“When I post to Wordpress, all of the HTML is stripped out. e.g., <br /> appears as ‘br /’.”

This is not a bug in ScribeFire; rather, it is a bug in a piece of software called PHP that is used to run your blogging software.

The (hard) solution to this bug is to get your Web host to upgrade their version of PHP to version 5.2.9 or greater. If that’s not possible, you can fix it yourself by installing this Wordpress plugin.

Thanks to all of the ScribeFire users that have reported this problem, and thanks as well to the other users that supplied links to the fixes.

ScribeFire 3.4.6 has been released to address the broken image uploading for Blogger users. You can install it at Mozilla Add-ons or wait for Firefox to notify you via the Automatic Updates feature.

A full changelog can be seen at “What’s New in ScribeFire 3.4.6?”.

We’re aware that uploading images to Blogger blogs has been broken since late Thursday night. We’re working on a fix and hope to have it up and running as soon as possible.

Update: Uploads should be working again as of late afternoon on November 8.

ScribeFire 3.4.2, a security update to version 3.4.1, has been released. It is recommended that all ScribeFire users upgrade to version 3.4.2. You can install it at Mozilla Add-ons or wait for Firefox to notify you via the Automatic Updates feature.

A full changelog can be seen at “What’s New in ScribeFire 3.4.2?”.

A lot of people request that ScribeFire be updated so that it can post to Twitter, since ScribeFire is a blogging tool and Twitter is a micro-blog. I don’t have any immediate plans to add this feature, since there is another Firefox add-on that satisfies this need in a way that complements ScribeFire.

It’s called TwitterBar, and it’s another one of my projects. It lets you tweet and post links to Twitter directly from your browser’s address bar: Just type your message in the address bar and then type –post (no need to press Return), or click on the Twitter icon at the end of the address bar to post it to Twitter.

If you want to use Twitter to share links to your blog posts, just publish your post as you normally do with ScribeFire, open your post after it’s published, and click on the Twitter icon in the address bar. It will post a link to your blog post on Twitter, and you can even tell TwitterBar to include the title of your post as well.

If you’d like to try out TwitterBar, you can install it from Mozilla Add-ons. It’s on Mozilla’s list of recommended add-ons, and it’s one of the highest rated add-ons in the “Social & Communication” category, so you can be guaranteed that other users have found it helpful.

Here’s some more information on TwitterBar, courtesy of Mahalo:

I just uploaded an update to ScribeFire 3.4, which unfortunately still had some debugging dialog boxes in it. Sorry for the inconvenience; the update will available in about an hour.

If you’re a fan of ScribeFire and would like to promote it on your website, you can embed the widget below on your blog by clicking on the “Embed this Widget” link.

We are pleased to announce the release of ScribeFire 3.4. You can install it at Mozilla Add-ons or wait for Firefox to notify you via the Automatic Updates feature.

Version 3.4 contains many bugfixes and several new features. You can read the full changelog at What’s New in ScribeFire 3.4