5 Features Of The Brand New Buffer Firefox Plugin

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We are glad to tell you about the latest development happenings over here at Buffer. As of this week we have published the fully fledged Firefox plugin for you available to use.

You can install it here or via our goodies page of course.

It boasts about the same features as the Chrome extension and I hope if you have been using the Bookmarklet for Firefox to date, then this is a good update for you.

1# Buffer any webpage you come across

Similar to the Chrome and Safari extension you can hit the Buffer icon at any time and add a tweet to your Buffer. The only real difference is that the placing of the icon is in the bottom right in the Firefox add-on bar.

2# Buffer your Retweets right from Twitter.com

I hope Retweeting something right from Twitter.com is helpful too with the new Firefox extension. Simply spend some time browsing your Twitter stream and Buffer a few tweets instead of retweeting immediately and clogging up your stream.

 

3# Use a Keyboard shortcut “ctrl + alt +b” to Buffer

Hitting these buttons on any page will bring up the Buffer Box. There is nothing much to say about this apart from the fact that I took a picture of my hand showing you how to do it ;)

 

 

4# Highlight some text and the click the Buffer icon

The highlighting feature is of course also available for your Firefox add-on. Simply highlight a quote or line you think is great to tweet and hit the icon. Alternatively you can also highlight and then press “ctrl + alt + b” to make it into a tweet.

 

5# Right click and Buffer through there

Joel also put another great feature in for you. Simply right click your mouse on any page and you can Buffer through the menu there by “Buffer that page”. Oh and excuse that this is in German below, it shouldn’t be for you!

 

 

Ok, that’s it. Also, I wanted to say that all these things are of course doable with your Chrome extension too. Most are doable with your Safari, but I heard from my good friend Joel that there is an update coming for it soon.

Let me know any thoughts you have about this. Oh and of course, since it is fairly recent you might find a few bugs. If you do, please let me know, we are eager to fix them quickly.

 

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  • http://trafficcoleman.com/blog/official-black-seo-guy/ Black Seo Guy

    Wow guys this is incredible..i see good signs to come when it gets viral. Twitter will be bringing you guys more traffic with this.

    “Black Seo Guy “Signing Off”

    • http://twitter.com/LeoWid Leo Widrich

      Antonio, thanks for stopping by. Glad you like the features of the plugin! 

      Wow, thanks for the kind words, awesome you think this will help us to viral success, I hope it does! :)

  • http://RicNunez.com Ricardo Nuñez

    Hey guys, I made a short video last night to send to my clients. http://www.screenr.com/AxI
    Let me know what do you think.

    The tool is getting awesome. Good job!

    • http://twitter.com/LeoWid Leo Widrich

      Hi Ricardo, thanks a lot for the video it is really great. I have just Buffered it too, I am sure many others will find it useful too!

      Awesome, glad you like it. 

      Thanks for stopping by, speak to you soon :)

  • http://www.johnpaulaguiar.com John Paul

    Great work Joel/Leo  Keep it rolling man :)

    • http://twitter.com/LeoWid Leo Widrich

      Cheers, thanks for the kind words John. Will do my friend, will do! :)

  • http://sweetsfoods.com/ Gera

    Hey Guys!

    Excellent work! I’ve installed and right now sending this post to Buffer – of course :)

    Cheers,

    Gera

    • http://twitter.com/LeoWid Leo Widrich

      @gerasweetsfoods:disqus  , awesome, that is great to hear. Glad you are finding it useful. Let me know if you ever have any questions :)

  • http://twitter.com/FollowMarcoLee Marco Lee

    Wow! This is nice! You guys just keep on improving and improving.

    p.s. I don’t mean to deviate but how about an extension for Opera. You’ve already got chrome and firefox. :)

    • http://twitter.com/LeoWid Leo Widrich

      Hi Marco, great to see you here!

      Fantastic, glad you like the improvements.

      Absolutely, I hope Buffering from any and every platform will be possible in the future. Opera may take us a little while though. I will keep you posted. :)

  • Web

    Great addition to the Buffer ‘family’. Been using it today. Love the ‘text highlight’ feature especially. One complaint – you’re making it all too easy. We need to work more! :~)

  • Neil

    Great addition to the Buffer ‘family’. Been using it today. Love the
    ‘text highlight’ feature especially. One complaint – you’re making it
    all too easy. We need to work more! :~)

    • http://twitter.com/LeoWid Leo Widrich

      Neil, thanks for your comment. Haha, indeed, finally it is part of the Buffer family! :)

      Oh, glad you like the text highlight one, me too, I really think it helps to make your tweets stand out! 

      Haha, oh well, we do what we can :)  

  • http://www.localbusinesscoachonline.com/coachnotes Vernessa Taylor

    This looks to be an excellent time-saver.  First heard of it through Ms. ileane at BasicBlogTips, but have yet to put it to use.  Now’s the time! Thanks, I’ll take both the Chrome and Firefox versions. Cheers!

    • http://twitter.com/LeoWid Leo Widrich

      Vanessa, 

      That is fantastic news, so glad you like Buffer and especially the Chrome and Firefox extensions. Yes, indeed @Ileane:twitter is a great supporter and helping us a lot to spread the word. Big thanks to her :)

      • http://BasicBlogTips.com Ileane

        Thanks for the mention @leowid:twitter 

  • http://www.iblogzone.com/ DiTesco

    Really cool addition to what already is a must have. Thanks Joel/Leo, this comes in handy as I am a FF addict and adding that practical buffer button will fit in nicely. Keep up the good work…….

  • http://twitter.com/SocialMediaSMG Chris Lucas

    Love the new features… Just used the Buffer icon in my
    Firefox add-on bar to share this post.  Thanks for making sharing just that little bit easier for us. 

  • http://twitter.com/ChuckBaggett Chuck Baggett

    The Buffer for Firefox app does appear to work with Firefox 3.6.18. Is it supposed to? 

  • Abhay Mittal

    Does it also provide the function of tweeting the content of the page some one is visiting that time, directly on Twitter?

  • http://twitter.com/mellissathomas Mellissa Thomas

    The add-on is awesome, Leo. You guys rock for coming up with that. However, the in-Twitter option (feature #2) isn’t available for me. Help?

  • Chuck Baggett

    Is there a Buffer bookmarklet for Firefox 11?

  • http://btrandolph.com btrandolph

    plugin works well in chrome, not in ff 5.0.1 (mac). also not in context menu?

  • http://twitter.com/RAllenJames Allen James

    Anyone else having trouble with this add-on? I can’t get it to stay signed in.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jbrabants Joris Brabants

    Buffer sometimes opens just by typing a B, which is really inconvenient!!! Is there any way to turn it of?