it’s a great news reader
…if only there was a possibility to use the mozilla engine

It would be cool if it could use the Mozilla engine but I don’t think I have come across a feed reader that does. They all seem to use Internet Explorer which is why I typically set all of the links to open in an external browser.

I’m the guy behind Feedreader. Thanks for review :). There are two things I’d like to clarify. First: There is more menu from where you can mark all news read in active feed. Ok, its not separate button but it’s better than popup.

I have been using that as well but it would be nice to have a separate button near the “Next Unread” button. It is just something that I do so frequently so I have just been getting used to using the Ctrl R.

You know, I could have sworn that I tried that…but sure enough I went back and it worked! I updated the post accordingly.

Thanks for developing such a great piece of software. I’m not sure how often you update it but it is nearly perfect in my opinion.

I’m the guy behind Feedreader. Thanks for review :). There are two things I’d like to clarify. First: There is more menu from where you can mark all news read in active feed. Ok, its not separate button but it’s better than popup.

Second : you can change update period of all feeds if you go to feed management and then do Control A or select some feeds while holding down control. Now only archive size and update period is active. Change those and press Save. Voila - you have changed update period for multiple feeds.

I never understood why Google didn’t setup the Google Reader to at least automatically refresh like GMail does. They should also come out with a notifier that does GMail, Google Calender, and Google Reader all in one. I’m sure a lot of people would love that.

Those are my questions too: why Google do not extend GTalk to notify about Reader & Calendar also? Let’s hope soon our request will be read & implemented.

However, I’ve started reading all my news of Netvibes itself now, so stopped the need for offline readers

- GreatNews allow you to set: notify me (with a popup window) about this feed, but not for this feed; FeedReader notify you about ALL feeds (when there is an update, of course). If you follow 50 feeds, you may want to be notified only about 10 feeds, otherwise you will have a forever-pop-up-window with news

No, it doesn’t let you selectively choose which ones to include in the popup but I never choose to read a site that I need that option.

It doesn’t have the label option exactly, but it does have the Smartfeeds which seems to be much more powerful than the labels. The Smartfeeds is probably my favorite feature.

Feedreader seems to use much less memory for me…typically around 4MB while opened and 2MB while minimized.

The browser does not have tabs but it does have an internal browser that is really easy to use. I actually disabled the tabs in GreatNews because if I wanted the page opened in a tabbed browser I would have it open in Firefox.

The notifier is really nice and I never understood why Google didn’t setup the Google Reader to at least automatically refresh like GMail does. They should also come out with a notifier that does GMail, Google Calender, and Google Reader all in one. I’m sure a lot of people would love that.

This definitely looks like something I would consider switching from the recently updated Google Reader for. I personally chose Google Reader, because it has many of the functions that I want in an RSS reader, and also is web-based, which is a huge deal for me, because I’m constantly switching from computer to computer.

But this program, looks like it could be something I’d be interested in installing on my USB Drive, which also consequently follows me everywhere I go, unconditionally.

The feature, that is convincing me to switch is the pop-up feature, which notifies you when the latest content has been published to the web. A feature I love, because I love to stay up to the minute on my news. And this auto-notifies me, without me having to be looking through my RSS feed reader.

but although they give u an options to tag items, u can only do it one at a time, and there is no option to correct them (spelling and such).

it’s funny they promote this is a tool for enterprises, when it is useful for private people 2.

now what i am missing is a reader that enable u to choose which feeds u want to export as opml.

- GreatNews allow you to set: notify me (with a popup window) about this feed, but not for this feed; FeedReader notify you about ALL feeds (when there is an update, of course). If you follow 50 feeds, you may want to be notified only about 10 feeds, otherwise you will have a forever-pop-up-window with news

- GreatNews has labels (which FeedReader did not had - I think - when I try it); in this way, I label my favorite topics (Web, IT, Humour, Design…) and I can find them whenever I want. Plus, on the time of cleaning feeds (they get hundreds in a month, if you follow sites as this), the labeled feeds are not deleted.

- GreatNews has the newspaper way of showing a feed; FeadReader?

- GreatNews is lighter in memory use, better than FeedReader

- Is there a browser with tabs inside FeedReader? GreatNews has one.

PS: I took a look at FeedReader website and I’ve seen in screenshots some tags, but do not seems so easy to use as with GreatNews