Les Jones: Switched to Firefox Today for the RSS

January 19, 2006

Tech > Switched to Firefox Today for the RSS

I finally switched from Mozilla to Firefox today. The RSS feed support in Firefox 1.5 won me over.

If you haven't used it, click on the orange button to add the current site's RSS feed to your bookmarks folder or personal toolbar. Either option gives you a submenu of current posts at the site - what Firefox calls a live bookmark. Wicked.

One question: is there some way to click on one of those live bookmarks and go to the main page of that site? I hope I don't have to keep a regular bookmark around, too.

One reason I hung onto Mozilla was because I liked being able to hit F9 and get to the What's Related Alexa information and site rank. I checked just now, and sure enough there's a Firefox extension that does the same thing.

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Comments

Whenever you click on a live bookmark, you will always go to the article it refers to. That's life.

If you want some advanced rss action, try sage. sage.mozdev.org. I suppose one benefit of sage is it loads on the page (with the full feeds) & includes a link to the homepage of the site.

Posted by: knoxjon at January 18, 2006

Welcome to the fold, my man! I second the Sae recommendation.

Posted by: Brian at January 19, 2006

I use Sage as well. Another Firefox user!

Posted by: Josh at January 19, 2006

Oh, man. Sage is wicked. Integrated with Firefox's LiveBookmarks, too. This might actually make me fall in love with RSS.

Posted by: Les Jones at January 19, 2006