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What 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 wordpr

What 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 ago
I 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 ago
  Ah, 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 ago
    Firefox'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 ago
      Firefox 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 ago
    You 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.
    - julien 13y ago
      Good luck with getting anyone who isn't a nerd to do it!
      - nieve 13y ago
        Yep. I offered the info in case it was useful, but I don't think it lets Mozilla off the hook at all. It's slightly better than completely getting rid of the feed detection code, I guess. That's probably the next step...

eli 13y ago

I 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 ago
Ah, 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 ago
  Firefox'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 ago
    Firefox 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 ago
  You 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.
  - julien 13y ago
    Good luck with getting anyone who isn't a nerd to do it!
    - nieve 13y ago
      Yep. I offered the info in case it was useful, but I don't think it lets Mozilla off the hook at all. It's slightly better than completely getting rid of the feed detection code, I guess. That's probably the next step...