Christopher Finke makes a number of additional Firefox add-ons available that you may want to explore, most notably Feed Sidebar and RSS Ticker.
There are also a lot of RSS web services, such as Blastfeed and FeedBite, that offer a Firefox extension to make it easier to access their service. If your preferred RSS tool vendor does not seem to offer a browser add-on, usually it helps to ask for it. Sometimes they do offer one, but less easy to find.
Many RSS-to-email forwarding services such as FeedBlitz and ZapTXT also allow you to quickly subscribe to feeds belong to the page you are visiting, either using a bookmarklet or through a setting in your Firefox RSS subscription options.
Then there's Particls, a nifty desktop alerting tool that helps you monitor large amounts of keywords and feeds. Their a "track this page" button for Firefox lets you add the current page to your attention profile.
Then lastly, I suggest your readers to install the Greasemonkey script RSS Panel X, by Johannes la Poutre and Ben Sittler. It auto-discovers all feeds, OPML files and microformats that the current page links to from its HTML page header and displays a tiny panel in the top-left corner of your screen listing each of these channels. This script is the first one I install when I create a new Firefox profile.
I don't know if it's within the scope of this particular post, but there are also a bunch of other browser plugins that are related to the ones already listed: I'm thinking of OPML-related add-ons (bookmarklets and extensions).
I'll monitor this post to see if any questions come up. I hope this information complements your already excellent collection.
Stan Schroeder
· 2 years ago
Thanks for the comment. RSS Ticker is mentioned in the article, and I didn't want to go into Greasmonkey scripts because that's a whole new ballgame. But, I'll make sure to check all the other add-ons you've mentioned.
Yellowbeard
· 2 years ago
This is great thanks. Personally I use NetNewsWire on my Mac for all my feeds, but am always looking for RSS readers to recommend to other especially FireFox users. I feel that is is a very under used & superior way to keep up with information on the net.
Pallab
· 2 years ago
I use the RSS Feed Reader provided with Opera. Here is a screenshot : http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/8804/rssinop... It uses full window, is capable of displaying embedded content like video, provides search-as-you-type function, you can import or export feed list, you are notified as soon as any feed is updated and it is integrated in the browser itself.
It is very funny, but Beatnik is developed by the man who developed NewsFox until 2004 (now he is not maintaining the project). I didn't know Newsfox back then, but Beatnik (now) is far from being usable, and the plug-in was last updated in July, 2007. Sometimes it displayes the feed content in full detail (if available, the whole webpage), sometimes in a collapsed state, where you see the heading and a few lines and you have to expand to read it, but it is not you who decide. Overall I like the idea displaying all the web pages from the feed as a big concatenated web page (scrolling through Akihabaranews this way is effective :-) but it needs some bugfixing. I recommend trying NewsFox, it is simple, but working andd maintained. It can discover Live Bookmarks, and has a few option to customize.
Reverse Funnel System
· 1 year ago
I use the RSS feed reader on Firefox - as mentioned, there are a lot of add ons that make it easy to customize. Plus, it's quick and easy since i use the browser too.
Stephen Ogley
· 1 year ago
If you're going to call the post "A Complete Guide" then it should be a complete guide. The most incomplete guide I've found.
jinny
· 1 year ago
afther i read this help me alot Thank you
Ansarul
· 9 months ago
Is it supports Atom features and feed reader.
sarah
· 4 months ago
Hi, I'm fed up with Safari and now using Firefox as my primary browser. The one thing I miss about Safari (now that I have pdf viewing under control) is that their live bookmarks feature posted the number of new articles next to the link when it updated the feed. I would much rather have this functionality than seeing all the titles scroll across the bookmark bar as a ticker, since I don't usually use my feeds for news, but *do* use it to keep track of some infrequently updated blogs, and more importantly a repository for technical papers in my field. Just seeing the title (in both of these cases) isn't necessarily as useful as it would be if I were only reading news articles. Is there any way to get Firefox to post the number of new articles when it updates?
Thanks!
Christopher
· 3 months ago
Thanks, I was a bit clueless on what an RSS was. I get it now! Thanks ;)
Tim
· 2 months ago
Is there any feed that pops up new items in a sort of "ghost panel" like google notifier does with email? Or maybe a (small) dropdown menu that pops open when a new item is posted? Something that let's you be passive like the ticker style, but without the annoying motion at the bottom of the screen. It would be really nice if a firefox addon did this, but I'd be willing to look anywhere
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most notably Feed Sidebar and RSS Ticker.
There are also a lot of RSS web services, such as Blastfeed and FeedBite, that offer a Firefox extension to make it easier to access their service. If your preferred RSS tool vendor does not seem to offer a browser add-on, usually it helps to ask for it. Sometimes they do offer one, but less easy to find.
Many RSS-to-email forwarding services such as FeedBlitz and ZapTXT also allow you to quickly subscribe to feeds belong to the page you are visiting, either using a bookmarklet or through a setting in your Firefox RSS subscription options.
Then there's Particls, a nifty desktop alerting tool that helps you monitor large amounts of keywords and feeds. Their a "track this page" button for Firefox lets you add the current page to your attention profile.
Then lastly, I suggest your readers to install the Greasemonkey script RSS Panel X, by Johannes la Poutre and Ben Sittler. It auto-discovers all feeds, OPML files and microformats that the current page links to from its HTML page header and displays a tiny panel in the top-left corner of your screen listing each of these channels. This script is the first one I install when I create a new Firefox profile.
I don't know if it's within the scope of this particular post, but there are also a bunch of other browser plugins that are related to the ones already listed: I'm thinking of OPML-related add-ons (bookmarklets and extensions).
I'll monitor this post to see if any questions come up. I hope this information complements your already excellent collection.
Here is a screenshot : http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/8804/rssinop...
It uses full window, is capable of displaying embedded content like video, provides search-as-you-type function, you can import or export feed list, you are notified as soon as any feed is updated and it is integrated in the browser itself.
I didn't know Newsfox back then, but Beatnik (now) is far from being usable, and the plug-in was last updated in July, 2007.
Sometimes it displayes the feed content in full detail (if available, the whole webpage), sometimes in a collapsed state, where you see the heading and a few lines and you have to expand to read it, but it is not you who decide.
Overall I like the idea displaying all the web pages from the feed as a big concatenated web page (scrolling through Akihabaranews this way is effective :-) but it needs some bugfixing.
I recommend trying NewsFox, it is simple, but working andd maintained. It can discover Live Bookmarks, and has a few option to customize.
Thanks!
I get it now!
Thanks ;)