Hi All!

With my usual pc down for repair (a T60 with XP and Firefox), I am currently using a T540p with Win7 and Firefox 81.0.2. On the XP, I was subscribed to several rss feeds. The older Firefox worked really well with them all. The Live Bookmarks feature is wonderful; it saves a lot of time getting a list of all the new posts by picking the ones that sound most interesting. But on the Win7 pc and the newer Firefox, subscribing to rss feeds just delivers raw XML files. For example, clicking on "Subscribe to RSS" on Kerbs Security (https://krebsonsecurity.com/) just produces and XML dump. Anyone here have a good rss solution?



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August Abolins wrote to All <=-

Hi All!

With my usual pc down for repair (a T60 with XP and Firefox), I am currently using a T540p with Win7 and Firefox 81.0.2. On the XP, I was subscribed to several rss feeds. The older Firefox worked really well
with them all. The Live Bookmarks feature is wonderful; it saves a lot
of time getting a list of all the new posts by picking the ones that
sound most interesting. But on the Win7 pc and the newer Firefox, subscribing to rss feeds just delivers raw XML files. For example, clicking on "Subscribe to RSS" on Kerbs Security (https://krebsonsecurity.com/) just produces and XML dump. Anyone here have a good rss solution?

After FF dropped support for live bookmarks, I switched to using the Feed Indicator extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-indicator/



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Hi Andrew!

18 Oct 20 00:22, you wrote to me:

....For example, clicking on "Subscribe to
RSS" on Kerbs Security (https://krebsonsecurity.com/) just
produces and XML dump. Anyone here have a good rss solution?

After FF dropped support for live bookmarks, I switched to using the
Feed Indicator extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-indicator/

Thank you. That one seems to work better than a couple others that I've tried.

But, some sites still don't seem to work:

http://tales.wellandhistory.ca
http://events.wellandhistory.ca

Whereas, they worked wonderfully with the older FF LiveBookmarks.




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August Abolins wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

Hi Andrew!

18 Oct 20 00:22, you wrote to me:

....For example, clicking on "Subscribe to
RSS" on Kerbs Security (https://krebsonsecurity.com/) just
produces and XML dump. Anyone here have a good rss solution?

After FF dropped support for live bookmarks, I switched to using the
Feed Indicator extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-indicator/

Thank you. That one seems to work better than a couple others that
I've tried.

But, some sites still don't seem to work:

http://tales.wellandhistory.ca
http://events.wellandhistory.ca

Whereas, they worked wonderfully with the older FF LiveBookmarks.

And I realized after I sent that, it doesn't really provide a "live bookmark" feature. I recall now that I installed it for the advantage that it shows when a
feed is available.

I always copy the feed into Liferea, which I've been using for a few years now.

Have you tried the Livemarks FF extension?

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On 19/10/2020 12:39 a.m., Andrew Alt : August Abolins wrote:

And I realized after I sent that, it doesn't really
provide a "live bookmark" feature. I recall now that I
installed it for the advantage that it shows when a feed
is available.

I always copy the feed into Liferea, which I've been using
for a few years now.

Have you tried the Livemarks FF extension?

It's not the same. It seems to basically create a "bookmark" for
every post. I don't think I like that. The original "live" rss links
were just that - a quick notification that a new post is available.
I could either ignore it and it would eventually drop off the list,
or go to it and it would be identified as being "read". The new
methods of creating an actual bookmark just litters up the Bookmarks
system.

I will try to learn to use one of the earlier plugins you mentioned
that sort of lists the new posts.


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