@johnjohnston It’s a shame FF abandoned that. Have you looked at some of the FF forks like Waterfox, they might still have it?
You’re question got me looking at Vivaldi which is trying to rebuild the functions of vintage Opera browser but there is no native RSS reader. There are extensions that work
@johnjohnston I did some more looking: Pale Moon has a reader extension called Bamboo. Might be worth trying. SeaMonkey has both feed detection and a feed reader built in as part of it’s Mail and Newsgroups function. I have not tested either of these.
@bradenslen Thanks, I’ll look at Waterfox. The Vivaldi extensions all seem to be readers. I like the way FF just showed you an rss feed if you loaded a link. I did find one FF extension but not as pretty as the old built in page.
@johnjohnston I used to agree…then I saw how easy it is to build an h-feed…now I wish everyone just did that…It is a resource issue…and a we need to make some money on this Pocket issue…..but simply had no users and no mantainers
@johnjohnston I think Vivaldi will eventually add RSS support, but first they wantto get the Email client added. I’m told the email client is almost ready.
@johnjohnston@bradenslen The Feedbro extension for FF works nicely but definitely fits ‘not so pretty.’ I checked out Waterfox today and like it, especially for detecting and previewing feeds. I already use 2 browsers regularly and adding a third to the workflow appears to be in my future. Thanks guys.
@bradenslen Not sure about ‘higher level’ but it’s always been Firefox for bookmarks (and surfing) and Safari for reading list – and now Waterfox sounds like a winner for previewing feeds. For what it’s worth, there’s also Readkit for feeds, BookMacster for managing bookmarks, MarsEdit for organization (and sometimes posting), Keyboard Maestro, TextExpander, and Better Touch tool for automation, Choosy for using all those damn browsers, and FileZilla for… Oh my, I’ve created a monster! 😮
@jeremycherfas@jgmac1106@johnjohnston I remember back when they added that, Ben (I think) was adamant that people needed a way to see what the feed they were going to subscribe to looked like (the preview view was the part of their feed support ecosystem that made the least sense to me—the feed is going to look like the blog’s posts, right?—but it ended up being the part that I wanted to port to Camino by the end, because it was useful as a simple “reader mode” for blogs with crappy layout and JS and whatnot).
I also find it ironic that Firefox is ripping out its feed support just as RSS is making a real “comeback” (in mindshare; as plumbing, it never went away) on the web… 😛
@smokey@jenett@jeremycherfas@jgmac1106@bradenslen well FF may have lost RSS but I’ve gained some great info! Thanks. I use Safari mostly but have a few other browsers around now joined by Vivaldi & Waterfox.
@johnjohnston It is stripped from FF to never return
@johnjohnston It’s a shame FF abandoned that. Have you looked at some of the FF forks like Waterfox, they might still have it?
You’re question got me looking at Vivaldi which is trying to rebuild the functions of vintage Opera browser but there is no native RSS reader. There are extensions that work
@johnjohnston I did some more looking: Pale Moon has a reader extension called Bamboo. Might be worth trying. SeaMonkey has both feed detection and a feed reader built in as part of it’s Mail and Newsgroups function. I have not tested either of these.
@bradenslen Gonna check out SeaMonkey – thanks.
@jgmac1106 a retrograde step imo 🙁
@bradenslen Thanks, I’ll look at Waterfox. The Vivaldi extensions all seem to be readers. I like the way FF just showed you an rss feed if you loaded a link. I did find one FF extension but not as pretty as the old built in page.
@bradenslen Waterfox does the business with RSS feeds. Thanks.
@johnjohnston I used to agree…then I saw how easy it is to build an h-feed…now I wish everyone just did that…It is a resource issue…and a we need to make some money on this Pocket issue…..but simply had no users and no mantainers
@jgmac1106 I liked to use FF to check RSS feeds before looking at the raw version. Saves me a bit of time.
@johnjohnston I think Vivaldi will eventually add RSS support, but first they wantto get the Email client added. I’m told the email client is almost ready.
@johnjohnston Great! I’m glad that works. I noticed Waterfox has an Android version which I need to check out.
@jgmac1106 @johnjohnston Yeah, but nothing as simple as just clicking on an RSS link to open in a new tab.
@jeremycherfas @jgmac1106 exactly. 🎯
@johnjohnston @bradenslen The Feedbro extension for FF works nicely but definitely fits ‘not so pretty.’ I checked out Waterfox today and like it, especially for detecting and previewing feeds. I already use 2 browsers regularly and adding a third to the workflow appears to be in my future. Thanks guys.
@jenett Oy, three browsers? You’re surfing the ‘net at a much higher level than I can!
@bradenslen Not sure about ‘higher level’ but it’s always been Firefox for bookmarks (and surfing) and Safari for reading list – and now Waterfox sounds like a winner for previewing feeds. For what it’s worth, there’s also Readkit for feeds, BookMacster for managing bookmarks, MarsEdit for organization (and sometimes posting), Keyboard Maestro, TextExpander, and Better Touch tool for automation, Choosy for using all those damn browsers, and FileZilla for… Oh my, I’ve created a monster! 😮
@jeremycherfas @jgmac1106 @johnjohnston I remember back when they added that, Ben (I think) was adamant that people needed a way to see what the feed they were going to subscribe to looked like (the preview view was the part of their feed support ecosystem that made the least sense to me—the feed is going to look like the blog’s posts, right?—but it ended up being the part that I wanted to port to Camino by the end, because it was useful as a simple “reader mode” for blogs with crappy layout and JS and whatnot).
I also find it ironic that Firefox is ripping out its feed support just as RSS is making a real “comeback” (in mindshare; as plumbing, it never went away) on the web… 😛
@smokey @jenett @jeremycherfas @jgmac1106 @bradenslen well FF may have lost RSS but I’ve gained some great info! Thanks. I use Safari mostly but have a few other browsers around now joined by Vivaldi & Waterfox.