RSS with Firefox

[yankeeharp]

CS says that Firefox comes with a built-in RSS reader. Anybody here know anything about using it? I couldn't find anything about it under FF help.

( http://channels.netscape.com/ns/forum_center/package.jsp?name=weather/pm/rssallforumsjj

"What about other Web browsers?
Firefox, Maxthon and many other browsers have built-in RSS readers. If you have questions about setting up RSS feeds in these browsers, consult the documentation that came with your browser or ask the staff members in your favorite Forums and Communities.")

[Judy G. Russell]

Using RSS with Firefox is verrrrrrry easy. Any time you go to a site that has an RSS feed, you'll see an orange icon in the bottom right hand corner. Click on it, choose subscribe and add it to a bookmark folder. Then to read the RSS feeds, just click on Bookmarks, then that Folder, then you'll get a list of RSS articles to read.

[Mike Landi]

CS says that Firefox comes with a built-in RSS reader. Anybody here know anything about using it?

At the lower right hand corner of a page that offers RSS, you'll see an icon that is orange with white curves. Click on it to subscribed.

[yankeeharp]

At the lower right hand corner of a page that offers RSS, you'll see an icon that is orange with white curves. Click on it to subscribed.Thanks. Supposedly, CS is making RSS available for all its forums, but, so far, I haven't seen any RSS button in any of the forums ( for example (http://community.compuserve.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=1558.9&nav=messages&webtag=ws-ukcurrent#a8) ). Cynically, I tend to suspect that CS has not actually made RSS available and is merely wishing for it. :rolleyes:

[Mike Landi]

I tend to suspect that CS has not actually made RSS available and is merely wishing for it. :rolleyes:

You may not realize how many things in that world are merely "wishes".

[davidh]

a site that has an RSS feed. There is a group of former refugees from Vietnam, around the world in US, Canada, France, Australia, etc., that meet 24/7 in voice/text chat online. They are trying to find ways to publicize the brutal persecution of the Communist Vietnamese government against the Hoa Hao Buddhists and evangelical protestant Montagnards, among others. I thought there might be some blogs / RSS feeds suitable for such "publication", but don't have a good strategy to find them. Any suggestions?

David H.

[Judy G. Russell]

Googling common search terms is really the best bet to find almost anything. Just add +RSS to the search.

[Peter Creasey]

Mike (and Judy), Is the RSS feature supported in Mozilla Suite?

[Judy G. Russell]

Mike (and Judy), Is the RSS feature supported in Mozilla Suite?
You need an extension in Mozilla. There's no built-in RSS reader. Check out inforss (http://inforss.mozdev.org/).

[yankeeharp]

I'm still not sure I'm getting it right. I don't see the RSS icon at the LR corner of any page. Here (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page) is a page that offers RSS, but I don't see the icon, except as a link to a manual subscription. When I click on subscribe now (coming from the page, not from FF), it tells me feed is not a registered protocol.

It offers a download of a program called Juice that will retrieve the feeds, and I could always do it that way, but if FF does it automatically, I'd rather do it with FF.

[Peter Creasey]

>> You need an extension in Mozilla. There's no built-in RSS reader. Check out inforss. <<

Judy, Thanks, that looks interesting. Guess I'll have to bone up on RSS at some point as it is pretty much Greek to me at this point.

[Judy G. Russell]

You have to go to the page with that manual link. Click on the RSS icon at the bottom and choose to subscribe; it will add it to your bookmarks (I suggest you create a new folder for RSS Feeds and create a new folder within that RSS Feeds folder for any site you subscribe to). Then any time you want to check the RSS feeds, just open that bookmark folder -- all the links will be there.

[Don Swaab]

Thanks. Supposedly, CS is making RSS available for all its forums, but, so far, I haven't seen any RSS button in any of the forums ( for example (http://community.compuserve.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=1558.9&nav=messages&webtag=ws-ukcurrent#a8) ). Cynically, I tend to suspect that CS has not actually made RSS available and is merely wishing for it. :rolleyes:

Hi, Charlotte!

There are no RSS buttons in the individual forums. Instead, the RSS feed links for all the forums are on the web page you mentioned,

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/forum_center/package.jsp?name=weather/pm/rssallforumsjj

For example, the RSS feed link for the Netscape Browser Forum is

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ws-nscpbrowser

You can paste that link into your RSS reader.

Incidentally, for some reason, all of the RSS feeds are set up to take you to the Netscape-branded view of the forums, instead of the CompuServe-branded view.

Regards,

Don

[yankeeharp]

For example, the RSS feed link for the Netscape Browser Forum is

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ws-nscpbrowser

You can paste that link into your RSS reader.Hi, Don,

I think I still must be missing something in my computer or FF -- that link takes me to a page that says
===========================
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

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<rss version="2.0">
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<channel>
<title>Netscape Browser</title>
<description>Recent Discussions in Netscape Browser</description>
<link>http://community.netscape.com/ws-nscpbrowser</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:53:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<item>
<title>buddy list</title>
<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/ws-nscpbrowser?m=149</link>
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<description>
5 message(s)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ws-nscpbrowser?g=149"/>
</description>
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<feedburner:origLink>
http://community.netscape.com/dir-app/acx/ACDispatch.aspx?action=message&webtag=ws-nscpbrowser&msg=3023
</feedburner:origLink>
</item>
=======================

etc. etc. I'm going to try downloading Sage as a feeder and see what happens.

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EDIT: But without the little pink smileys. This forum apparently translates any ":" and "o" into a smiley even if it is intended to be literal.

[Judy G. Russell]

That doesn't work for me either in Firefox.

[Don Swaab]

Hi!

An RSS Feed is a list of Headlines, with a Summary paragraph under each headline.

The Firefox browser includes a partial RSS Reader, called "Live Bookmarks", which can only read the Headlines and not the Summaries.

A full RSS Reader, called "Sage", can be installed as a Firefox plug-in, at

http://sage.mozdev.org/

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Some RSS web pages let you subscribe automatically, because they display a red icon in the lower right corner of the Firefox browser, which you can click on.

However, there is no red icon on the CompuServe RSS page at

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/forum_center/package.jsp?name=weather/pm/rssallforumsjj

So you have to manually subscribe to each CompuServe RSS Feed. For example, the RSS Feed for the Netscape Browser Forum is http://feeds.feedburner.com/ws-nscpbrowser

To add this RSS Feed to the built-in Firefox "Live Bookmarks" reader: From the Firefox top menu, click on "Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks". In the next window, click on "File > New Live Bookmark". In the next window, enter the Name "Netscape Browser Forum", and the Feed Location "http://feeds.feedburner.com/ws-nscpbrowser". Click "OK".

You should now have a new red icon in your Firefox bookmarks. If you hover your mouse over the icon, you should see the RSS Headlines. Or you can choose "View > Sidebar > Bookmarks" on the Firefox top menu. You can click on the RSS Headlines to go to the Netscape Browser Forum.

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For a better RSS Reader, install the Sage plug-in. Then click on "View > Sidebar > Sage" on the Firefox top menu.

Regards,

Don

[Gary Maltzen]

This forum apparently translates any ":" and "o" into a smiley even if it is intended to be literal.
Put the text in CODE (similar to QUOTE) brackets to avoid that...
<feedBurner:origLink>

[Lindsey]

Incidentally, for some reason, all of the RSS feeds are set up to take you to the Netscape-branded view of the forums, instead of the CompuServe-branded view.
I can't decide whether to say "No comment," or "Why am I not surprised?" <sigh>

--Lindsey

[Judy G. Russell]

The real question is why bother saying either? You can't answer a message you read by RSS feed anyway. So what good is it? (Don't answer that. I'm given to rhetorical questions when the subject of what's left of Compuserve comes up...)

[yankeeharp]

To add this RSS Feed to the built-in Firefox "Live Bookmarks" reader: From the Firefox top menu, click on "Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks". In the next window, click on "File > New Live Bookmark". In the next window, enter the Name "Netscape Browser Forum", and the Feed Location "http://feeds.feedburner.com/ws-nscpbrowser". Click "OK".Hi, Don. Thanks for these instructions. I was able to get the RSS into my bookmarks and it is working fine.
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[yankeeharp]

<<The real question is why bother saying either? You can't answer a message you read by RSS feed anyway. So what good is it?>>

They've fixed the problem where you couldn't reply to messages if you came in from other sources (you also had the same problem if you tried to reply after accessing via an email notification). But what is *really* good about it is that gmail allows me to set up RSS links on my inbox page, which I can then access from any computer.

On my own computer, I find the live bookmarks function built into Firefox to be very useful -- I just skim over the forums and thread titles, click "open in a new tab" on any that interest me, and then continue on the page I was on. Later, the threads I was interested in are one click away, loaded and fully accessible without any further login or navigation required.

Actually -- I suppose I should say this quietly, here -- it takes me less time to get from one forum to a thread in another forum -- than <whispering> it took with Tapcis.http://ourworld.cs.com/omsapphire/images/wrygrin.gif

[Judy G. Russell]

Going from one forum to another forum was never a strength of Tapcis. That sort of linking is what the web is best at. So it's not surprising that web links would do that better.