[dba-Tech] RSS and Firefox

On 21/07/05, Arthur Fuller <artful at rogers.com> wrote:
> Make it work! Subscribe to some RSS feeds and make them happen. Nothing
> complex LOL.

There are a couple of ways to do it.

1) If the page has the RSS feed setup in the headers of the web page,
ala Slashdot, then you can just click on the orange icon in the status
bar. This will allow you to bookmark the RSS Feed. Once bookmarked,
the feed acts sort of like a folder. When you "open" the feed from
your bookmarks menu, the stories are show in it. From there, just
click on the story you want to read, and voila, the page opens.

2) You can install an RSS reader extension. I personally use Sage,
http://sage.mozdev.org/ This give you an RSS reader in a sidebar
window. The nice thing about Sage, is that it allows you to "discover"
RSS feeds on pages that don't have them set up in the web page's
headers, ala CBC http://cbc/ca/rss/. To use Sage, just open it in the
sidebar, click on the feed. This will fill in the stories in the lower
portion of the sidebar AND the active tab in the main browser window.
Form there, just click on the story in the lower portion of the
sidebar, or on the story in the main browser window.

Does that help?

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