Feed Your Reader 1.2
I’ve pushed out a release of FYR 1.2. I quietly released versions 1.0 and 1.1, but I feel the need to announce this one. This release adds two new subscription options, and support for a few new aggregators.
“Subscribe to this link” enables you to use FYR to subscribe to sites which don’t support RSS autodiscovery, just right click on their link (orange xml or otherwise) and you’re good to go. “Subscribe to this page” lets you subscribe to the current URL. Useful for when you accidentally click on the URL for a feed, and find yourself staring at XML. The new aggregators supported are NewsGator online and FeedLounge.
For more information see the project page or download 1.2 here . Those of you running firefox 1.0 or greater, should be able to update from the extensions window. As always, any bugs, let me know.
David Glasser August 17th, 2005 @ 05:19 PM
“Feed Your Reader” looks excellent (and will hopefully help me be happy about switching away from Safari). It looks like you’re not supporting the Deer Park alphas yet—obviously it’s just alpha software so there’s no particular reason to, but if it’s just a matter of changing a configuration or something, it would be great if you could make it work!
Juani August 21st, 2005 @ 12:38 AM
I have to agree with David #2. I use Thunderbird as my RSS reader and I would absolutely LOVE if I can use the LiveBookmark feature on Firefox with Thunderbird…
Citizen Keith September 9th, 2005 @ 01:14 AM
This looks great. Thanks! Any chance you’ll add support for RSS Bandit?
http://www.rssbandit.org/
Chris Hoffman September 11th, 2005 @ 07:43 AM
Any chance for an option to show a feed discovery dialog when visiting a site that has a feed? On your options dialog, I suggest a checkbox to enable the setting. Then, when you visit a site with a feed, a dialog will be shown with options available currently on the context menu, and probably the current Ctrl+Click Live Bookmark too. On this dialog, there would be an option that says something like “Do not show for this site in the future” so that if there’s a site you visit regularly, but do not want to subscribe to, it will not show next time. When you do subscribe to a feed, it should basically have the same result
-that is, the dialog would not be shown in the future for that site since you have already clicked to subscribe. When this option is enabled, you could also have a secondary option to hide the status bar icon. The reason for all of this is that some people (including myself) really like the idea of your auto-discovery solution, and it works great, but often the status bar icon goes unnoticed, forget to look, etc. Please email me if you decide to proceed with this. Thanks, and best of luck with all your projects!Luhmann October 3rd, 2005 @ 04:43 PM
Any chance of a Firefox 1.5b compatible release of Feed Your Reader?
David October 8th, 2005 @ 04:49 AM
I love “Feed Your Reader”! I’ve been using it for more than a year. But now I’m trying to run Firefox 1.5 b2, and FYR doesn’t work on it. Will it be upgraded soon?
Many, many thanks.
speedo November 6th, 2005 @ 01:35 AM
Firefox 1.5 is final now, add me to the list of “can you please update FYR so it works with the latest version of firefox?”