![]() That way I could bypass RSS feeds altogether and just go straight from my Blogroll sidebar to the site itself.īut having installed this RSS feed reader into FireFox, I now have something which is equal to, or possibly even better than that. I wish instead that they would implement basic aggregator functionality, indicating when something is new to me (not in terms of time), how many new items there are, and then de-highlight when I've read them. I have a Blogrolling sidebar in FireFox, which is just great, but it only ever tells me when a site has 'new' content according to the time limit I have set. What I had been wanting is for Blogrolling to add a little bit more functionality to their service. I'm a one click kinda gal – I like instantaneousness in my browsing. Not far, admittedly, but enough so that it irritated me. FIREFOX RSS READER PLUSPlus it would delete from the history any feeds I'd already read, which is ok, I guess, but sometimes I'd want to go back and check something and I'd have to dig for it. But it never really satisfied my blog reading needs – it restricts me to whatever is in the RSS feed, and accessing the actual blog page from the RSS feed is a clumsy, involving opening links in new tabs and not always getting the site but sometimes getting the feed instead. I looked at a few other readers before setting on Bloglines. Sadly, Syndirella was highly unstable and crashed more often than it worked, so that got ditched. There's something more satisfying about reading blogs as their author intended them to be read, with all the design and pictures and fandangles (and sometimes, actual content) that are on the blog itself but which get stripped out of the RSS feed. I liked Syndirella because it told me when sites had updated but also allowed me to actually view the blog, not just the results of the feed. ![]() I initially tried Syndirella – a desktop app that acted both as RSS checker and browser. I wish I could say something similar about an RSS reader. I love FireFox – so much sexier than IE, so much less bloated than Netscape, it really is a good browser and if you haven't converted yet, I strongly recommend that you do so. ![]() I've just updated FireFox to version 0.9 and downloaded an RSS reader extension. ![]()
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