Michael Koziarski: Once you’ve installed FYR
you’ll see a new Feed Icon
() in the status bar, that behaves just like the
live bookmarks menu. However, instead of opening the bookmarks
menu, selecting an item will launch your Feed Reader. [via
Nick Bradbury]
Cool!
Wishlist:
allow an option to support
http://www.bloglines.com/sub/ instead of
feed:
instructions on how to remove the current icon, making this a
replacement instead of an addition
replaceable icon - to me it makes sense to display the icon of
your feed reader instead
Is the source to this extension available?
If you download the .xpi, you can simply unzip it, then unzip the .jar contained inside to see the source.
My plan for 0.7 is to allow Bloglines, My Yahoo and other web based aggregators. I'll include a number of pre-configured 'URL patterns' and also allow a 'custom' option. Before I get on to that, 0.6 will replace the Mozilla icon and use C-click to add a live bookmark. The reader-specific icon is a good idea, I'll look into it. As mentioned, the source is in the .xpi, but I'll put a tarball up at some stage with a build script..
Thanks for the comments and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Two approaches to Bloglines support: unpack the whole XPI, edit externalfeedOverlay.js::openFeedUrl(), pack it all back up and install it (or edit the already installed jar), or, wait a day or so for 0.6: he's already on making it work for most things (I've got a list of 17 subscription URL patterns I'm about to email him, from Morten's list; know of others?).
Two approaches to getting rid of the extra button: unpack the whole XPI, edit externalfeedOverlay.js::externalUpdatePageLivemarks() and comment out the call to someLinks(gLivemarksButton) so the original button never gets its menu filled, and thus never shows up, then edit externalfeedOverlay.xul, change the oncommand to pass both the event and the window, edit openFeedUrl() so it's expecting those, and then check for (aEvent.ctrlKey || aEvent.shiftKey || aEvent.metaKey), in which case you add a Live Bookmark (just in case you ever want to), and if it's unshifted/controlled subscribe in your aggregator, or, wait a day or so for 0.6. (And I'm not sure about the "day" - it was 02:30 my time when I emailed him, and he said "tomorrow", but his timezone?).
The icon? I'm not sure: I'd say once it's stealing Live Bookmarks' function entirely, the Live Bookmarks icon would do fine, but then I'm amused as can be that they are calling Atom a flavor of RSS, while I can see where some people might not be ;)
Feed Your Reader from Michael Koziarski is a Firefox plugin that acts like the [RSS] Live Bookmarks fing, but rather than subscribing Firefox to the feed it launches your aggregator on it.
The current version is based around the despicable feed: pse...