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September 14, 2004

Mozilla Firefox Preview Release 1 Out

I've just upgraded to the new Firefox release - grab it over at Mozilla.org. The most noticable thing so far (besides some component compatibility issues) is the display of an "RSS" button on the right of the status bar when the browser detects feed-related metadata on a page. Apparently, at least Atom, RSS1, and RSS2 feeds are supported, as that's what I'm seeing options for when I navigate to my home page. You can then select to subscribe to a particular feed by clicking on the RSS button. The bookmark for the feed is a folder of links to the feed's entries. Pretty cool stuff.

Update: Ross just posted an entry that points to a webpage that references the feed support I was describing, and he expounds upon the support that the new Thunderbird 0.8 has for feeds as well. Good show.

Posted by Alex Harden on September 14, 2004 10:56 AM |

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Yeah - I added a LINK tag to my site to enable that...

I was able to add a few RSS feeds manually (Yahoo Sports), but it's a pain in the butt. It'd be nice if the final version of Firefox would allow manual addition of RSS feeds.

Posted by: Don | September 14, 2004 11:59 AM

Yeah, I didn't see anything that made me think "time to get off of SharpReader", but it's definitely something I will use with a few sites. I just added a pointer to Ross's explanation of the feed support in Tbird 0.8.

Posted by: aharden | September 14, 2004 12:36 PM

Other things I like:

- IE-style gold addres bar for secure sites.
- Type-ahead find now includes a little toolbar at the bottom.

Posted by: Don | September 14, 2004 3:05 PM

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