Reviews for Brief
Brief by Adam Kowalczyk, Denis Lisov
108 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Grey-Black-White, 7 years agoIt is super easy to use, can change how often you want to refresh your feeds, and is very responsive & fast. Highly recommend if you want to have a browser based RSS reader.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13223514, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ricardo Simões, 7 years agoFormer SAGE Feeds user here (which no longer works with Firefox 57 and development has stopped). This add on enabled me to carry on using Firefox
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12153250, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13588079, 7 years agoGreat Addon, have been using it for years and am very glad that it works with FF57 now.
I only have two minor complaints:
1) In some recent version the keyboard shortcut for opening Brief changed from Ctrl+Alt+D to Ctrl+Shift+D. Unfortunately the latter shortcut is already used by firefox for bookmarking all tabs. Thus Brief cannot be opened anymore using a keybaord shortcut.
2) Yesterday Brief suddenly deleted all my feeds and I had to resuscribe to all of them. Didn't happen before and I hope it won't happen again.
Anyway, great addon, thanks a lot! - Rated 5 out of 5by mecki78, 7 years agoAlways has been the best RSS Reader and still is the best. I missed it a lot when there was the WebExtension switch (being announced so early, I wonder why so many extensions got ported that late), so I had to try out Feedbro, which seems to be more popular among users, but I don't understand why, was a big disappointment when you are used to Brief. Brief is so much easier to use, simple UI, easy to navigate with mouse and with keyboard, it's fast, it's light weight (needs little memory and CPU time), it works as expected (opening an entry opens it in a tab, marks it as read and immediately wipes it from the unread view), little preferences (which is good, I don't want to waste 2 hours on configuring a RSS reader just to make it somewhat usable). I'm so glad it's back and finally I have a quick, no sorry, a "brief" overview of all the important news again, safes me maybe a hole hour a day, as I can quickly skip all the uninteresting ones, easily read the important ones and peek at those where I'm unsure if they are interesting; that's what you use a news reader for to begin with, isn't it?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13563009, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13562909, 7 years agoliked it but migration to FF57 failed. In fact Brief doesn't work at all in FF57
update: thanks for getting back. changing the privacy setting did the trickDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoBrief does work in FF57 for most cases. However, there are some known limitations and Firefox bugs. For example, Brief does not work in strict privacy modes (never save history / don't accept cookies / sanitize on exit) yet. If that's not your case, you're welcome to report the issue on the issue tracker. - Rated 5 out of 5by Si2Bim, 7 years agovery reliable feed-reader. having using it for years now - before FF 57.
figuring out how to backup my feeds. no reaction when I export my feeds.
doesn't seems to start automatically when clicked ????
it runs after awhile - depend on good-luck... :-(Developer response
posted 7 years agoThis may be the database initialization delay which is a known problem for Brief. Developer response
posted 7 years agoFeed list sync is planned, but not implemented yet in the Quantum-compatible version.- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10231516, 7 years agoThanks for porting this to WebExtensions. Best RSS Readers, I've been using it for years now.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13526607, 7 years agolecteur permettant la prise en compte de nombreux sites avec une excellente ergonomie. Simple à mettre en oeuvre, facile à utiliser.
- Rated 5 out of 5by nkolyamba, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Joe Driver, 7 years agoIt's the perfect RSS-Feedreader for me - since years! And now, with FF57, it's perfect again! Thanks for this great Addon.
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edit Dec. 2018:
And now, with FF 64, it's always the best Reader! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13512145, 7 years agoGreat Add-On but has somebody else the problem that the new version (for FF57) doesn't show the last entry first? The checkbox in the options seem to do nothing - i always see the newest entry first... regards
Update: Thanks a lot - that was my problem - i was using Brief for years and have forgotten that you have to change the view - thanks again - keep up the good work
One more suggestion - add something like "Delete all unread messages" to "All entries" - in previous version the "Mark everything as read" option has put them to the recycle bin and you could delete them there - now i have to delete all the unnecessary feeds for every entry seperatlyDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoAre you sure your view is set to unread only? This option is inactive in the other modes. - Rated 5 out of 5by GWu, 7 years agoI'm using Brief for years now and I can really recommend it.
Big thanks to the developer for migrating this to WebExtensions and FF57+ ! - Rated 5 out of 5by Village Cat Dad, 7 years agoYay! Brief is back! Love this extension. Simple, straightforward, and works well. Had moved away from it due to it not being maintained, and used Bamboo. Had to shift to away from that because of FF57. Used FeedBro for a few days, hated it. Glad to see Brief show up in the supported FF57 extensions. Made my day!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13507218, 7 years agoI love Brief!
An extremely good extention of rss reading.
I do not really need a lot of so called various functions, but to alert me if things I\ve subscribed get updated is enough.
Recommend Brief to you if you need a rss subscriber rather than a file manager. - Rated 5 out of 5by ezrider, 7 years agoGreat! Very nice and easy-to-use. Replaces my former RSS reader with FF57. I only noticed that I can't export feeds into an OPML file... Nothing happens.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoExport to OPML works for me correctly, so if you could come to Github and report it there with the error messages from console that the attempt produces, you would be welcome.