Subj : rss with firefox/win7 - how?
To   : August Abolins
From : Andrew Alt
Date : Sun Oct 18 2020 12:22 am

-=> August Abolins wrote to All <=-

AA> Hi All!

AA> With my usual pc down for repair (a T60 with XP and Firefox), I am
AA> currently using a T540p with Win7 and Firefox 81.0.2.  On the XP, I was
AA> subscribed to several rss feeds. The older Firefox worked really well
AA> with them all. The Live Bookmarks feature is wonderful; it saves a lot
AA> of time getting a list of all the new posts by picking the ones that
AA> sound most interesting.  But on the Win7 pc and the newer Firefox,
AA> subscribing to rss feeds just delivers raw XML files. For example,
AA> clicking on "Subscribe to RSS" on Kerbs Security
AA> (https://krebsonsecurity.com/) just produces and XML dump.  Anyone here
AA> have a good rss solution?

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

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



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-Andy


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