RSS in Hoary

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

Just to put my 2 cents, for me personally one of the important traits
for an RSS reader is unobtrusiveness. That way straw and blam are out
right away, since both of them insist on keeping a window open (both
have notification area support, but wouldn't close the main window
without exiting). Also blam neing a mono application has carries the
enormous memory footprint. Thunderbird RSS support is nice, but there
are two objections: it is not the default mail client and you can only
see the updated feeds if the window is open. Firefox sage shares that
later objection (whats the point if i have to keep a browser window open
to see if some of the feeds got updated) and I couldn't find any
notification of updates without having to keep sage sidebar visible
(maybe I didn't look close enough). So far I use liferea, since it will
nicely stay in my notification area and hide the main window on either
close or click on tray icon. It seems to have all the necessary features
and at the moment my RSS reader of choice. I wish there was a way to
integrate it with firefox, so that clicking on RSS icon in firefox would
actually add the feed to liferea.