Firefox is going to lose native support for feeds (RSS, Atom). [0]
Funny, I read about this shortly after I implemented a feed indicator in
lariza. [1]
Well ... it's not that surprising that Mozilla removed this feature, if
their usage statistics show almost nobody uses it. I would probably do
the same thing, I guess.
The feed icon in lariza shows up when a page provides an RSS or an Atom
feed. When you click on it, you'll see a very simple list of those
feeds. That's it. The idea is that you then grab one of the links and
put it in the feed reader of your choice. (If you like, you can also
right-click on one of the feed links and open it using lariza's
"external handler" -- a program of your choice. That might be the
quicker way, depending on your setup.)
One of the important aspects is: The browser actively tells you when
there is a feed. You don't have to search for an icon or a link.
I think this approach works pretty well for lariza. lariza is meant to
provide a basic browser and the rest is up to other tools (even things
like bookmarks).
I used the feed icon in Firefox the same way: Tell me when a page offers
feeds, and which ones. I never used Firefox's "live bookmark" feature.
But that feed indicator was really handy, which is exactly why I
implemented something similar in lariza. I can only speculate why
Mozilla removes this part of feed support. They could have kept it.
It saddens me a bit, though. Feeds are getting less and less attention.
From my point of view, they are a really great feature, and I don't know
of a better alternative. Again, I can only speculate why most people
don't seem to like feeds.
[0]:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477667
[1]:
https://www.uninformativ.de/git/lariza/commit/ae12ce8df22a0388bdf24b2164882f5fb95255c5.html
