RSS in Hoary

Yuan Qi gmanenews.3.maxchee at spamgourmet.com
Sat Jul 23 23:01:01 CDT 2005


There is always the Feed Your Reader extension 
(http://projects.koziarski.net/fyr/) for Firefox.

You need to ask the Liferea devs for the command line switches.

Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <nigde at mitechki.net> wrote:
>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.
>
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