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> For RSS, I have first to “guess” (or rather hope) that there is a feed, since browsers now hide the infamous orange icon. I can then select the url of that ta
by zanny 13y ago
> For RSS, I have first to “guess” (or rather hope) that there is a feed, since browsers now hide the infamous orange icon. I can then select the url of that tab and copy it. Then, open a new tab, go to the reader I chose to use and paste the url. Hopefully, that reader is smart enough to actually find the feed url from this page’s url. If not, I’m screwed anyway and I’ll have to look into the HTML code of the page!
On sites that provide a feed link, I just click that link, which opens that feed in feedly, and I hit add to my feedly. Process is as simple as twitter. The choice of some sites to hide their feeds and provide no links is the burden of site designers.
- jessaustin 13y agoIf one doesn't like how her browser handles certain links, it's easy enough to get an extension or bookmark for that browser that does exactly what she wants. This is especially true for feeds.
- sentenza 13y agoWhat browsers actually hide the rss icon? I too sometimes have to resort to the tactics that the article describes to get a feed, but it is usually just wordpress sites where the author is unaware that rss even exists or that rss is provided by wordpress.
- eli 13y agoI believe both Chrome and Firefox used to show an RSS icon next to the URL but both killed the feature. Here's a Chrome plugin to add it back: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-extensio/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-e...
- sentenza 13y agoAh, thank you. I am using Firefox for so long now that I can't remember when I started and somehow never noticed that the icon was there at some point.
- eli 13y agoFirefox's was actually pretty good in that you could click it and it made an attempt to format the feed for display and offered you links to subscribe to it using popular Feed Readers. Chrome, even when it had the icon, by default linked it to the unformatted XML page. I get the sense that Google's heart was never really in RSS.
- Spittie 13y agoFirefox still show that page, you just have to open the feed directly in the browser (instead of pressing that orange icon). You can put the icon back in the toolbar, or you can press on the globe/keylock near the url, press on more informations, and then Firefox will show all the available feeds for the page under the "feeds" tab.
- nieve 13y agoYou can put the RSS icon back in the toolbar (but not the url bar) by going into View->Toolbars->Customize and dragging it wherever you want it. It's a bit less obvious than the original, but it's still useful.
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- th0ma5 13y agohttp://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feedfinder/ http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feedfinder/ http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feedfinder/feedfinder.py http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feedfinder/feedfinder.py Helps!
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- julien 13y agoYes, feedly is a browser extension, that you knew how to install Most people don't and most readers are not browser extensions...
- zanny 13y agoI don't actually use the feedly browser extension, it mucks my pages up. I use normal web page feed links, and Firefox (the first time) will ask where you want to direct that rss feed, and if you have feedly open in a tab it proposes feedly as an option, and you can set it as the default so links always go to feedly. No extension required.