Just noticed that Thunderbird 0.8 (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/) was released today.

Being such a huge TB fan, I tried it out immediately. I must say that it's nice to see RSS (and Atom) integration. TB's functionality is of course not in the same league as NewsGator (http://www.newsgator.com/), but if you don't use Outlook then you can't use that anyway.

I prefer a dedicated RSS reader myself, but I can see the appeal of being able to view everything from within a generic "news" client. "News" being your e-mail, UseNet newsgroups and RSS feeds. I hope the TB team follow through with the RSS support and improve upon it, they might just win me over.

Anyway, just wanted to share.

They've also released a preview release of Firefox 1.0 (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/). One of the goodies in this release is RSS enabled bookmarks!

From the release notes (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/):
Live Bookmarks

You can now subscribe to and read RSS feeds in your Bookmarks. When you visit a page that advertises a RSS feed by using a http://www.mozilla.org/images/rss.png tag, a RSS icon will appear in the status bar. Click it to view a list of feeds the page is offering. Click one to subscribe - this adds a Bookmark Folder that contains all the recent posts from the feed.I have not downloaded this release yet. I also like a dedicated reader, and have been using FeedDemon for that... Still, it does make it look like Mozilla is moving quickly into the RSS world. Perhaps they'll come out with a standalone reader of their own??

I tried the Firefox 1.0 preview as well. At startup it complained about the All-in-One Gestures extension not being compatible yet and disabled it. I can't live without mouse gestures so I went back to 0.9.3.

I tried the Firefox 1.0 preview as well. At startup it complained about the All-in-One Gestures extension not being compatible yet and disabled it. I can't live without mouse gestures so I went back to 0.9.3.

you can download some mouse gestures extension here:
https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=39

-S.

I'm still running 0.9.1.... I better upgrade.

Craig.

A good place to find inofficial extensions, many of them updated for V1.0 PR, is here:

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=776

All-in-One Gestures for V1.0 PR is also available there.