Comments: Mozilla Firefox: RSS and Live Bookmarks

Great post. I found your site on google.

I have flash tutorial about RSS with Firefox Live Bookmarks. RSS Atom Feeds with Mozilla Firefox

Direct link to flash tutorial about rss with flash: RSS Atom Feeds with Mozilla Firefox (flash)

thanks for creating a great site :)

This also works with Safari on the Mac by the way (blue RSS icon appears in the address bar).

I used your instructions to add the title bar display to Firefox, and it worked.

But the feed name that Firefox puts in the bookmarks is the main title of the page : I was hoping it would use the title tag from the status bar code.

Is this working like it should ?

@Godey:

Thanks for calling my tutorial the best.

As for your question, I have no idea. Which extension(s) do you have installed? I just checked Firefox on a few sites, and in my case it does appear in the far right of the address bar. Since I have only a few extensions installed, I suspect an extension causing a conflict in your case.

@Adrian:

This has been reported as a bug (several times even), see: Bug 251447 - Automatic retrieval of Atom/RSS feed's title for Live bookmarks

Wow, I just entered the 21st Century.

On my FireFox (1.5), the availability of Live Bookmarks is shown by the little red icon, which appears on the right end of the Address Field (i.e., the field with the URL of the webpage being displayed).

Some webpages have live bookmarks. Others don’t. If a webpage doesn't have them, you won't find the little red icon anywhere, anyway. A good example of one that’s got ’em is arrl.org, which has them. See the little red icon all the way to the right of the webpage’s URL?

A simpler way for beginners to start handling live bookmarks is to left-click (yes, left) on the red icon, which brings up the "Add Live Bookmark" window. Then, it’s one more click to simply put the new live bookmark into the default "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder."

Perhaps after saving a dozen live bookmarks, I'll run out of room on the Bookmark Toolbar. Then I'll start breaking them up into folders.

It isn't clear that Live Bookmarks may only be saved under the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder, but not mingled in with the other bookmarks. Then, it would be more intuitive if it were named the "Live Bookmarks Folder," instead.

Also, for more viewing area, I have unchecked the Bookmarks Toolbar, removing it from the screen. (I like minimum toolbars, especially when keyboard commands are available and faster.) The live bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder are still available by going to the usual Bookmarks button in the top menu, as are the rest of the standard bookmarks.

Peace, -Neil-

@Neil, you can store the Live bookmarks in any bookmark folder, but I prefer the Bookmarks toolbar folder.

how can i make that annoying add live bookmarks icon disappear from my location bar? i may be the only person that doesn't care for it, but it's very annoying to accidently click it when i'm trying for the dropdown button beside it. i checked about:config nothing there, nothing in the options, nothing anywhere on how to remove it, please add an option where users like me can remove it or put it whereever we want it. thank you

Chris, at first it was not very clear what you meant, but I have been experimenting a bit. So basically, if a Live Bookmark ends up in the wrong folder, open the Bookmarks menu, and before selecting it with the mouse press the Ctrl key, hold it, select and drag the Live Bookmark to the Bookmarks toolbar, release the Ctrl key (otherwise a copy is made), and release the mouse button.

Thanks!

What also works, right (context menu) mouse button on the item in the Bookmarks menu, select Cut. Then hold the mouse over the Bookmarks toolbar, right (context menu) mouse button and select Paste.

Wow, I was trying to figure out where my feed icon went in 1.5.0.1. Thanks for solving my problem, I just had to look in the right place. Thanks!

Thanks for this tip. I also generate an OPML file for our feeds ... do you know if Mozilla does anything with auto-discovery of OPML as a feed source? That would be far more elegant than putting in a link for every rss feed on a page in my header. TIA.

Hector, read the section titled "Manually subscribing to an RSS feed". Copy the above URL into the Feed Location field.

Thanks a lot dude... I knew nothing about RSS feed before I saw this page... but now I have all the best RSS feeds in my browser. ~Firefox Rox... so does John Bokma ~~Keep up the good work.

Awesome! This is the first I am learning of live book marks. I put your example on my site (the rss feed link) and it works like a charm. I tried bookmarking it and was blown away by the drop down menu of RSS items! What! Awesome!

It's about time I learned this. In my ignorance I was about to download Thunderbird just to use it's RSS reader, but I figured FF must have something for this!

Hi Charles, yes, use:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
    title="Peer2Peer RSS"
    href="/%7Epetrie/online/peer2peer/index.rss">

instead of:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
    title="Peer2Peer RSS" href="/index.rss">

since /index.rss is resolved to: http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/index.rss.

John - Thanks for helping me *finally* figure out how to deal with RSS in Firefox. I have had the default BBC headlines taunting me in my toolbar since time began, without being able to add anything that I really wanted to see. I read your tutorial months ago and still couldn't work it out. Came back today with a little more patience and worked through the process of manually adding a feed. It might help others (like maybe "Hector" from back in May) if your syntax matched up with Firefox, and a little more detail. (E.G. "Select MANAGE BOOKMARKS from the Bookmarks menu, then select New Live Bookmark from the FILE MENU.) I would have been singing your praises six months earlier! Thanks again. :)

Great post, I'm glad I found you in google. It was so easy I couldn't figure it out. Now I wonder why I was so intimidated by RSS <embarrassed shrug>

Never min. I found it. You now have an extra step, when you are looking at the feed, after clicking the orange RSS button you now have an option to choose while RSS reader to use. 'Live bookmarks' is the top option in the drop-down.

Sounds like a good feature. Very well described. However, the entire explanation fails to answer the question: Why would I want to use this? I was looking for a problem this solves or an advantage it brings that I don't now have. Some folks jump on every whiz-bang feature; I have to see a use for it first.

Can you help?

Before I installed livebookmarks I use to be able to click on a feed and view it. Now I can't. Instead it asks me if I want to add the bookmark but it doesn't give me a view option. Any suggestions?

THANK YOU! I don't know how I did it but I managed to screw up my RSS and I've not been able to work out how to get it back on my site, but your wonderful information has fixed it! Thank you so much!!!

Hi, I found that my browser does not carry an RSS icon anymore when I go to my site. I tried adding the tag you have mentioned but nothing shows up. Could you please help me with it? Thanks, Harini