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Chrome doesn't even have an RSS icon at all!

• Pheter 16y ago
  It really frustrates me that it doesn't.
  • logic 16y ago
    Ask, and ye shall receive: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhn... It's even a product of Google themselves.
    • CoryMathews 16y ago
      well 1/2 receive you still have to send it to something such as the forever slow google reader. Its not built into chrome like it should be.
      • logic 16y ago
        It's not built in, but saying it "should be" is a strong statement, in my mind. A convenience item, certainly, but a requirement? RSS has a bit of a marketing problem to resolve before I'd say it absolutely must be there. (Also, you don't have to use Google Reader; it actually produces a reasonable in-browser rendering of an RSS feed, if you click the icon in the URL bar.)
        • jeff18 16y ago
          Strong disagree. Chrome is the only major browser that doesn't have native support for RSS. Even Internet Explorer does! Hell, it doesn't even understand RSS -- it simply shows the raw XML source. Because of this, many blogs have links to their RSS/Atom feed with a fat "Subscribe" logo -- on Chrome, when you click that, you get a massive page of unparsed XML. Whether a given grandma knows what RSS is or not is beside the point, it's lame of Google not to follow a defacto standard that many sites rely upon when there is no technical reason not to. It seems weird the Chrome works so hard to integrate PDF / Flash / etc. so the users don't have to think about it and really push the envelope with their browser... yet they refuse to even honor RSS.
        • CoryMathews 16y ago
          I do think it should be. But then again thats another reason i stick to opera. I don't want to load up another program to read my rss. I also think it makes it a whole lot less technical when its built in to the browser. I could have no idea what an rss feed is but since opera tells me that I can subscribe, I subscribe and then it opens them to be read. I then remember the orange icon and know how it works on any site. Thats a lot easier then taking the feed coping the url into a feed reader and having to open that every day to read my feeds.
  • Lewisham 16y ago
    I installed an extension so that it did :)