Subj : rss with firefox/win7 - how?
To   : August Abolins
From : Andrew Alt
Date : Sun Oct 18 2020 11:39 pm

-=> August Abolins wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

 AA> Hi Andrew!

 AA> 18 Oct 20 00:22, you wrote to me:

 AA>> ....For example, clicking on "Subscribe to
 AA>> RSS" on Kerbs Security (https://krebsonsecurity.com/) just
 AA>> produces and XML dump.  Anyone here have a good rss solution?

 AA> After FF dropped support for live bookmarks, I switched to using the
 AA> Feed Indicator extension.

 AA> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-indicator/

 AA> Thank you.  That one seems to work better than a couple others that
 AA> I've tried.

 AA> But, some sites still don't seem to work:

 AA>  http://tales.wellandhistory.ca
 AA>  http://events.wellandhistory.ca

 AA> Whereas, they worked wonderfully with the older FF LiveBookmarks.


And I realized after I sent that, it doesn't really provide a "live bookmark" feature. I recall now that I installed it for the advantage that it shows when a
feed is available.

I always copy the feed into Liferea, which I've been using for a few years now.

Have you tried the Livemarks FF extension?

--
-Andy


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