For a long time I have been using the Scribefire plug in for Firefox as my blog editor.  I love the ability to split the screen in Firefox and write my blog article right under the page I am writing about.  Scribefire has gone through some changes over the years.  It was originally Performancing for Firefox, but when that was bought, it became a commercial product for a while and now appears to be open source without a corporate sponsor.  All I knew or cared about was that it worked (maybe there is a lesson there about open source software somewhere).

With the most recent update though a nasty little bug (nasty to me, but they don't think it is so urgent) was introduced where if you leave more than one space a nbsp; is added.  Not just a blank space but the actual letters and characters.  I am from the old school where I space twice at the end of a sentence. So at every sentence end I get one of these and than I have to go in and take them out by hand.  It is a major pain in the butt.

So I have switched over to Windows Live Writer. I had looked at it sometime ago and there were a few reasons I stayed with Scribefire.  But the latest release of Live Writer actually gives me tables and insertion of video that Scribefire doesn't.  I still miss the split screen, but I can launch it from Firefox. 

I will look at Scribefire again perhaps when they fix this bug.  But every day I use Live Writer I grow more comfortable with it. By the time Scribefire fixes their issues, it may be too late!