From our 7,000+ feed subscribers I’m surprised to see that over 600 of those readers are still using the rather simple Firefox Live Bookmarks to keep up on the news. I’ve always found the Live Bookmarks system to be overly simple since the only part of the feed that is made available is the title of the article. I guess the simplicity is what draws the users in though.
For all of the Live Bookmark users out there we’ve found an extension that will make your feed reading just a tad bit better. The Feed Sidebar extension will add a new sidebar that will grab all of the Live Bookmarks that you are currently subscribed to. As you sift through the multiple feed items there will be a summary displayed in the lower half of the sidebar. Here are some of the nifty features:
- You can mark some or all of the entries as read
- Refresh the feeds on demand
- Specify the interval that the feeds will be refreshed at
- Open all unread articles in new tabs
- Adjust how many days worth of data is shown for each feed
- Double-click on a feed item to mark it as read and open it in the browser
Hopefully all of the Firefox Live Bookmarks users out there will put this extension to good use!
Feed Sidebar Firefox Extension
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How do you know those 600 use live bookmarks? How about feed reader addons like Sage? I suppose those readers don’t identify themselves. Anyway, there’s a cute addon called Boox, enhancing your live bookmark experience.
Plus one called LiveClick which lets you customise a few handy things.
Isn’t it better if, by reading first only the titles, I download the whole article only if I want to read it? Isn’t it better for your bandwith availability and harddisk?
Some of us just like to read the headlines and then pick which one we want to load up and ready…KISS (Keeping it Simple Stupid)
I also use the Firefox Live Bookmarks, because I like to have my favourite RSS feeds at hand in my bookmarks. It’s quick and easy to see the headlines. But for extensive reading I use FeedDemon.
Actually Sage is tracked separately in FeedBurner. We have 39 subscribers that are using Sage.
I’m the same way for the most part, but I use Google Reader. There I can collapse all of the feeds and only expand the ones I want to read. I guess it is close to being the same thing.
I guess I’ll stick with Google Reader. This one is great for casual, not hardcore RSS subscribers.