RSS integration enabled in yesterday’s Thunderbird nightly builds

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RSS integration enabled in yesterday’s Thunderbird nightly builds

August 1, 2004

Yup it is here - bug 253490 - Turn on the new RSS extensions and add it to the installer.

It isn’t completely working yet, but it is ready for testing. Works very much like the Forumzilla extension. It even displays the webpage in full as specified in the <link> tags in the RSS feed like Forumzilla does, which isn’t ideal. Atom feeds work fine though - only the <content> is shown in plain text format.

Well, on to the screenshots. I’m not in the mood for too much writing today.

Creating a new RSS account:

Screenshot of Thunderbird's UI for creating new account, including an RSS account

Management pane for an RSS account:

RSS account options:

RSS feed management dialog:

Adding a new RSS feed:

Screenshot of dialog for adding a new feed

Message pane listing items in a RSS feed:

Screenshot of message pane for RSS feeds

Grab the latest Thunderbird nightly build for some first-hand action.

Posted by Chu Yeow at August 1, 2004 SGT |

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Thunderbird RSS integration
redemption in a blog has screenshots of the new RSS reading feature in Thunderbird

Posted by: Ideophobia on August 1, 2004 3am

Thunderbird RSS integration
redemption in a blog has screenshots of the new RSS reading feature in Thunderbird

Posted by: Ideophobia on August 1, 2004 3am

And that my friends, is why Thunderbird is the best mailclient around - This feature kicks ass :)

Posted by: Tom Sommer on August 1, 2004 3am

There’s RSS in my Thunderbird!
Cheah Chu Yeow has some screenshots of RSS and Atom support in Thunderbird, which got turned on in today’s builds. This is one of the big new features in 0.8, along with local folders support for POP3 accounts and a better quicksearch toolbar and is a …

Posted by: Neil's World on August 1, 2004 4am

Except, as with other software based clients, it only keeps track of articles you read on the system you read the articles on. So, if you are at work reading a couple of articles at lunch time, you come home and there are the articles ready to read again.

Bloglines is the only RSS client I know (I think there is another web based client, but it’s not nearly as nice as Bloglines) that is web based so that no matter where you read your RSS feeds from, you are always current.

Posted by: Dave M. on August 1, 2004 6am

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RSS in TB
RSS integration in Thunderbird…

Posted by: C:\Arvind.sideblog on August 1, 2004 12pm

Hmm… if it supports Atom too, then why the name is “RSS News & Blog Account”? “RSS/Atom Feed Account” would be nicer…

Posted by: minghong on August 1, 2004 5pm

Thunderbird
I have used the Mozilla application suite for my web browsing needs for as long as I have known about it (almost two years).

Posted by: Eye of the Storm on August 18, 2004 7pm

This is pretty much everything i wanted in a rss client. Sadly it seems like attempting to sort feeds into different folders results in broken feeds that do not update.

Posted by: Kato on September 24, 2004 7am

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Posted by: bzyq on April 7, 2005 5pm

In this particular case, because there are so many free rss readers around, the fact that Thunderbird is open-source (thus free) does not give it an advantage.

Posted by: Web Design Texas on May 6, 2006 12pm