Firefox Real-Time RSS Feeds In Your Browser

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January 26, 2005
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Firefox is one of those mac browsers which gives us a taste of what to expect in the coming Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger’s version of Safari that fully supports RSS.

“What’s RSS you ask?

Pop into our RSS Feeds page where an explanation is waiting for you. Read more, if would like to keep track of your favourite RSS-enabled sites in real-time me hearties!

If you’ve not already downloaded your copy of Mozilla Firefox, get one otherwise there’s no point to continue reading this article.

Setting Up RSS Live Bookmarks In Firefox

Before moving start up the Bookmark Manager window by clicking on Manage Bookmarks in the Firefox menubar option(see Diagram below).

With the Bookmarks Manager window open, click on File in the Firefox menubar, and select New Live Bookmark in the drop down menu(see Diagram below).

This will open an interactive window where you must key in the particulars of the site whose RSS you wish to track(see Diagram below).

If you’ve keyed in the correct RSS link Firefox takes over from here and creates a Live Bookmark that contains the RSS entries. You can make this more accessible by moving it to theBookmarks Toolbar Folder so that it will appear right there on your browser window for quick reference(see Diagram below).

The RSS updates in real-time and now you have a quick reference to the latest entries on your favourite RSS bookmarked web site. Clicking on any of the entries will link you to the story on the web site.