Saturday, December 11, 2004

RSS and firefox

I've noticed that with the newest firefox that it has RSS feeds.

Too bad it's a really bad setup. If firefox knows there's an rss feed it will show a little icon on the lower right hand side of the window. If firefox doesn't realize it's an rss feed, you have to go into the bookmark manager and add a "live bookmark" , and know that live bookmark = rss feed. All the feeds then show up as bookmarks. Just an awfully confusing setup all around

So what's a firefox user to do?

Use the Habari Xenu extension
http://habarixenu.mozdev.org/

Now you open up a separate tab with the newsfeeds. You get the synopsis like you should, and each click and optionally load up in a new window

I've been a long time fan of sharpreader ( http://www.sharpreader.net/) but the combination of firefox and Habari Xenu has it beat.

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