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Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

Tim — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:41:38 -0000

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

Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

Christopher — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:22:48 -0000

Thanks, I was a bit clueless on what an RSS was.
I get it now!
Thanks ;)

Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

sarah — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:04:46 -0000

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!

Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

Ansarul — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:25:09 -0000

Is it supports Atom features and feed reader.

Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

jinny — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:37:21 -0000

afther i read this help me alot Thank you

Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

Stephen Ogley — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:37:01 -0000

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.

Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

Reverse Funnel System — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:47:08 -0000

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.

Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

karatedog — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:33:44 -0000

And how do you put this into Firefox?

Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

karatedog — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:31:21 -0000

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.

Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

Buzz — Sun, 27 May 2007 16:52:58 -0000

I use netvibes.com

Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

Stan Schroeder — Sun, 27 May 2007 07:30:40 -0000

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.

Re: RSS in Firefox: A Complete Guide

Yellowbeard — Sat, 26 May 2007 12:46:27 -0000

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.