Want to receive WordPress.com notifications instantly, even when you're not on WordPress.com? Back in January, we announced the WordPress.com extension for Chrome, and today, the extension is available for Firefox too!

Add the WordPress.com extension for Firefox and as soon as you get a new follower, comment, or a like on one of your posts, a notification will appear in your browser:

The WordPress.com button in the toolbar is badged with the number one, indicating one unread notification.

Simply click the icon to view your latest WordPress.com notifications:

A popup opens when the WordPress.com toolbar button is clicked, displaying recent notifications, including comments, likes, and new followers.

Start following new blogs without visiting WordPress.com

The Firefox extension also makes it easy to follow sites from your WordPress.com account by displaying a Follow button whenever you're browsing a site that has an RSS feed.

Clicking the Follow button will add new posts from the website to your reader, and send you an email each time an update is published. (You can change your default email settings if you like.)

When you visit a WordPress.com site, you'll notice that the extension icon will turn blue, but keep in mind that you can follow blogs on Blogger, Tumblr, and other services, too.

Quickly post cool stuff you find while browsing the web

Press This is a lightning-fast way to publish content on your blog without ever visiting WordPress.com. Click the WordPress.com extension button, then select Press This whenever you find something on the web that you'd like to share on your blog, and a pop-up editor will appear:

A popup window opens containing a post editor pre-filled with a link to and the title of the current page.

Select the blog you'd like to post to, then hit publish to share a link to the site. Your blog will be updated, and you can continue browsing the web from wherever you left off.

If you'd like to publish an excerpt of text along with the link to the site, simply highlight the material with your cursor before clicking Press This:

A portion of text is selected in a web page.

And it will appear in the editor for you to publish along with the link:

The post editor is shown again, but this time with the aforementioned selected content added to the editor, along with a link to the page.

We hope this makes it easier for you to share cool stuff on your blog quickly; if there's anything you'd like to see in future versions of the extension, be sure to let us know.