Now along come the McDonald brothers of Vpop Technologies, who’ve developed the Firefox Typepad Toolbar. It provides you not only with Quickpost (which they awkwardly call BlogThis, showing their Blogger.com-centrism), but you can access your blog admin area, your weblogs themselves, and your photo albums all from the same toolbar. There is also a search engine feature which allows you to access various search engines of your choosing. I find this a less useful item.
Why is Quickpost so important to me? I blog often about news items I find on the web. Having an easy way to highlight text and turn it into both a post and a viable hyperlink at the same time is a godsend. And I’ve been missing this since I saw the light and deserted IE for Firefox about a year ago. I’m so happy to have Quickpost back in my blogging arsenal!
If you’re a Typepad/Firefox user, download the Firefox toolbar. It’s a great tool.
One small but serious quibble: the developers of this toolbar call a feature in the Typepad/FF toolbar “BlogThis.” The feature is called Quickpost in Typepad and if they want Typepad users to recognize the feature in this toolbar, they should call it by that name; and not the name that blogger.com uses for it.