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Mike Lietz just gave me a quick pointer in #habari to something I was completely unaware of.

Keyword searching in Firefox. I have no idea how I've managed to stay completely ignorant about that feature until now. I knew that I could use 'g ' to search via Google, but I had no idea that you could add your own that easily.

Skippy pointed me to a Firefox Add-on called It's All Text! that basically makes any textarea editable via an external editor.

So, this is just a quick test post using it and posting to the Habari write post page via Notepad2

Before you read this, please note that these are my own personal thoughts and wishes, not an offical post from the Gallery team.

There are a couple of things I, personally, would love to see happen with Gallery 2:

• Akismet Plugin
  We all know spam sucks, and Akismet does a great job moderating comments for lots of different web applications. Gallery 2 could really benefit from the same service.


• Flock Support
  Flock natively supports several online solutions, how cool would it be if you could also post your photos to your Gallery 2 installation directly? This seems like a feature more people than me are looking for, and I'm sure some Flockstar out there has the capability of making it happen? After all, both Gallery 2 and Flock has pretty open APIs. Of course, a FireFox plugin would be great too, but that falls into the same category doesn't it?


• Scheduled publication
  I would love to see a Gallery 2 module that lets you scheduled publication of items, as well as scheduled removal. Most useful in photoblog situations I think, but it's a feature I would like to be able to use on my photoblog. I love automated things.


• Improved RSS module
  Gallery 2 has a pretty good RSS module, but it could use an overhaul to make it a bit simpler to use. As far as I'm concerned the current module has to many options, and is to difficult to set up. After all, most users only need a site feed, an album feed, and a comment feed. Right?

So, if anyone has the know-how, dedication and free time available (very likely, I know), I would be eternally grateful if someone decided to tackle one or more of these challenged.

Now, I said it.

In June I gave GreenBorder Pro a quck test, and it worked out very nicely. The developers over at Greenborder has now announced the availability of GreenBorder Pro for Firefox as well.

I haven't tested it, but I'm sure it works as good as the Internet Explorer version. Give it a try!

In an earlier post, from September 2005, I mentioned Firefoxadm as a solution for centrally managing a corporate (Active Directory) based Firefox deployment. Today I stumbled across a project that seems to be moving towards the same goal.

The Firefox Corporate Project looks really interesting and although it requires a few manual steps it seems to be very easy to implement.

Using custom .adm templates and .MSI packages makes it as easy to manage Firefox as it is to manage Internet Explorer.

I still wonder though, why doesn't Mozilla build that kind of functionality into the standard package? It would really make sense for them to do so, if they really want larger organizations to switch over. I can't imagine that they don't want that?