Anyway, this is going way far off-topic... so this'll be my last post on RSS.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
 to all that too, we must live in a parallel universe :lol: |
So far, within the hour of using the Livemarks add-on, it seems VERY close to the old Live Bookmarks.
I substituted back all my RSS feeds... and now I can skim every single article title with a simple mouse hover down the list of sites! (Glorious, glorious, you don't know how productive you've made me again, Doitsu!)
The problem I'm now seeing is that the add-on works by "hacking" the Bookmarks functionality by bookmarking the latest articles from the RSS feeds ~ every few minutes.
This means any time I begin typing in the URL bar, it displays:
- Latest "bookmarked" article titles
- All these RSS feed articles are now "my favorites"... so they take much higher priority over many of the other search results.
- Open Tabs
- Usual browser history
- Very lowest priority, easily driven off the bottom of the list of 10 URLs.
Let's say I'm trying to dig through my history to find some technical topic I read months ago... the entire thing is potentially buried by the RSS results.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I suspect 'they' are killing it off because it's not easily monetised
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Perhaps. At least podcasts seem to still completely rely on it, and podcasts and doing better than ever.
Now websites are pushing all this "Push Notifications" garbage (which I have since disabled):
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ations-firefox
(And again, to disable it, it's this completely buried and non-intuitive checkbox.)
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I did find something re RSS and Github, on stackoverflow I think, but it was written in scriptych technobabble.
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I usually first look for the little RSS logo (or search "RSS" on a page), then I (used to) look for the little logo in the URL bar.
When they got rid of the little button, Firefox buried it under
Menu > Library > Bookmarks > Subscribe Live Bookmarks (or something as preposterous as that)... but by then, I pretty much had 99% of the sites I consistently visit in the RSS feeds, so I never bothered to add many feeds after that.
Github, I don't follow many projects on there, but the ones I do, I'm usually checking the sites consistently anyway (Sigil, LanguageTool, NetGuard, AdAway, etc.)... but now knowing there's Atom will save me lots of time. Now it'll just be a few simple mouse movements to see if there were any updates posted.
