RSS feed integration in Firefox

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July 13, 2004

Recently added to the Firefox feature list: Live Bookmarks (or Livemarks). Livemarks weren’t initially intended to make it into Firefox 1.0, as Ben Goodger commented when he filed bug 244078. It seems like they will make it anyway, and have already appeared in nightly branch builds since 2004-07-08.

Livemarks allow you to bookmark an RSS feed and these appear as bookmark folders, with individual items in the feed appearing as bookmarks. Just click on the “bookmark” and you will be taken to the page the item in the RSS feed is pointing to.

Screenshot of Livemarks folder on Bookmarks toolbar

A lightning bolt icon appears on sites which have the <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS” href=”http://www.example.com/index.xml” /> bit in the <head> tags. All you got to do is to click on the icon and choose from the syndication formats available.

There’s even a “Refresh Livemark” context menu option to keep your Livemarks up to date.

Screenshot of Livemarks Refresh context menu option

Not anything that would take me away from the current RSS aggregator I use, but the integration with the bookmarking system is a very intuitive model that would fit into most people’s conceptual model of RSS feeds and bookmarks. I mean, an RSS feed is as good as a bookmark you keep somewhere (only it feeds you live content). RSS feed -> bookmark folder, RSS feed item -> bookmark. Gels nicely for me.

Get a nightly branch build if you’re interested to see it in action for yourself.

Posted by Chu Yeow at July 13, 2004 SGT |

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Opera still doesn’t do Atom..
Your feed looks so nice in default Sage css !
For frequently updated feeds, Yahoo’s module excels.
Helpful stuff here — keep up the good work!

Posted by: Nigel L on July 13, 2004 1am

Viewing RSS/Atom as bookmark is such a cool idea!
It will be even cooler if the links are bolded while visited links are normal (just like Thunderbird).

Posted by: minghong on July 13, 2004 2am

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Posted by: ubiquitous minghong - My Blogger on July 13, 2004 3am

i’m using sage too at the mojo, the combination would be kinda interesting, but they clearly have differnt applications.

Posted by: matt on July 13, 2004 3am

I too prefer Sage but I would like to take the best of the 2 worlds. Maybe even improve the Sage content area display to make it more usable, much like the Safari RSS aggregation page.

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I would have preferred this type of thing stay as an extension myself.

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well, after stumbling across your post, i went and - for the first time - installed a nightly rather than the latest stable-ish release. not bad…although it does show the new “every application will grow until it can read rss/atom” maxim (and i seem to have spotted something about email in the tools menu, so it already covers the old “…until it can read email” one as well)

long time no see, btw :)

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