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- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13229219, 7 years agoBest RSS-Reader I tried so far but unfortunately it can't sync over different devices.
I know that Feedbro can't Sync to Mozilla. But maybe it is possible to sync to my Homeserver or Dropbox or whatever!?!?
If there is any possibility to sync already read articles over different devices I will update to 5 stars! :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12798619, 7 years agogreat addon ! I used Sage until FF 57 was released and it stopped working but since I started with FeedBro (just few days now) and it is much. much more advanced. fast, easy, simple.
One small request if it will be possible to add for a future release: add a link to the source web page. for example: i use FeedBro mainly for youtube. as the youtube feed is limited to the last 15 entries per channel, you want to be able to open the channel's page and browse for the missing upload you didn;t have in the feed.
Maybe to add the link above the view of the feeds or something...
Other than that: great piece of software !
Omer.Developer response
posted 7 years agoEach article should have a link to the feed source web page on the "From line" under the article title. - Rated 5 out of 5by cristianhcd, 7 years agoFunciona muy bien y la interfaz es bastante parecida a la que usaba en opera
- Rated 4 out of 5by gggeek, 7 years agoInstalled the plugin 15 minutes ago.
So far I have: added a couple of feeds, played around with the options to customize the GUI.
Everything seems to be working as it should, which is more than I can say of most of the pre-FF-57 feed readers.
The choice in available view modes is great!
My 1st feature request would be: allow to import rss feed definitions from a set of bookmarks (ie. a bookmark folder and its subfolers).
That's because it is the format that is used by Sage (my previous reader) to store the list of feeds.
I know that import from OPML is possible, and it could do, if not for the export-bookmarks-to-opml FF extension not being 57-compatible!Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for your review.
Feedbro 3.32.0 now has a button in Options that you can use to import selected Firefox bookmarks as HTML (first export them in Firefox of course). PS. It seems that Chrome uses the same format for bookmarks HTML export so it's possible to import Chrome bookmarks with the same button as well. - Rated 4 out of 5by Underpass, 7 years agoI'm trying to replace NewsFox and this addon seems to be good enough.
Is it possible to hide the upper section (All items, Starred items, etc.) altogether thus making more room to the feed?
Is it possible to have the "normal" layout with the article list in the upper half and the preview in the lower hald of the page?
Thanks. - Rated 5 out of 5by trap000d, 7 years agoAll good, just a few issues, however a bit annoying:
1. No option for font size in tree view (hardcoded 11pt, why?)
2. A 3-panel layout (like as in NewsFox) is highly appreciated. Yes, you have to change several css rules from flex to block and place one of drawers horizontally. Sorry if it breaks your conception of modern design.
3. Definitely need an option for hotkeys customization.
4. Not an ideal UX, e.g. there is no way to switch from full article to headers list or tree view without mouse. - Rated 4 out of 5by Kat, 7 years agoHello.
I like your extension. It replaces my old one and is visually very appealing. But I have a major problem, so I can't give you 5 Starts yet.
I can't seem to select particular feed entries and mark them as read OR unread. Somehow my feeds got marked as read (I think I figured out why) but I've not read half of them yet. So I wanted to select a batch of feed entries and mark then unread but it's impossible. I can not click on the feeds without extending them (a manual "extend", "collapse" function for each entry would be great for the views where there feeds are not extended by default) and can't select multiple entries either. Apparently I couldn't find even a mass "mar unread" option. :'D
I'd be very grateful if you fix this!
You might want to change keys, too, or allow their adjustment. Because when I type "m" to mark as read/unread for a single thread, firefox starts the in-site search function. Since this has been bugging me anyways I've removed that function in the configurations but I doubt that most users will do that
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EDIT as Reply to creator's reply: Yes I adjusted how the articles are markd as read. Still it'll be important to allow the selection of several articles to mark or unmark them.
Regarding the search bar: No it was set like that by default in the Firefox Quantum build. But then again it was synchronised with my old Profile so who knows X'D. Anyways "accessibility.typeaheadfind" was set on "true" instead of "false" in "about:config" ig´f anyone ever has the same problem. It's gone now so if it's just a bug on my side and no problem for others then that's great!Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for your review!
Please open Options page. There you can select how articles are marked as read. Default is when the title of the article is shown (quite "eager" mode), another option is when the bottom of the article is shown (requires that you expand articles and scroll to the end) or manually by unchecking "keep unread" checkbox or by pressing 'm'.
Edit: Feedbro 3.35.0+ fixes the keyboard shortcut issue you mentioned. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13435581, 7 years agoHi! Great addon !
My wish : feedbro count the global number of article per tag. It will be great to count the number of unread article per tag or just put a flag on a tag with new article !Developer response
posted 7 years agoIn "Tags" menu you can see how many articles in total have a specific tag. But if I understand you correctly, you'd like to also see the number of unread articles that have a specific tag? If so, that's perfectly doable and we can add it to the Product Backlog. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13427027, 7 years agoJust migrated from LiveClick which has been discontinued. It does everything I need except one thing. Could you please highlight feed folders that have unread items in them. Otherwise I have to mouse over every folder to look for unread items.
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posted 7 years agoEach folder should show the number of unread articles on the right side of the folder name. - Rated 5 out of 5by alecox, 7 years agoHi! Great addon :)
could you add to the menu the option to update all feeds manually instead of one by one? It would be convenient directly from the icon on the bar
Thanks - Rated 5 out of 5by Jagan, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Relven, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ruhollah Majdoddin, 7 years agoUnfortunately the add-on does not take advantage of Firefox Synchronisation, one should setup his feeds manually for each device.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Anatoli, 7 years agoHi! Nice add-on, thank you!
I've just experiencing one problem with my FF56@Ubuntu: when I right-click on the feeds in the tree view on the left, I get a common menu as on any page, but the help says I would get a menu to rename the feed and perform other actions. Could this be due to NoScript and uBlock origin? Of is this something with FF56?
It would be a 6-stars add-on if you could allow to place feeds on the bookmarks menu the same way the LiveClick add-on does it. I guess it won't take that much effort having the back-end already implemented. I suppose it could be placed there with drag&drop from the tree-view and with a checkbox from the feed options. You could get all their users with this feature as LiveClick won't be rewritten for WE (I'm one of them).
A small suggestion: could you please place the favicon of the feed below each article title (i.e. in "from ") and (optionally, with a check in settings) make the the same as the name one choses for the feed? E.g. for https://thehackernews.com feed I see now: "from The Hacker News by noreply@blogger.com (Mohit Kumar)". It could be replaced by: " ".Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for your review and comments!
The right-click problem is a bit tricky to pin down. A few other users have reported it as well but we haven't been able to reproduce it on our Linux installations. Hard to say what is causing it. 3.30.0 has one extra preventDefault() call. Hopefully it fixes that issue for you. Please also ensure that in about:config you have key 'dom.event.contextmenu.enabled' set to true. If it's false, it disables right-click context menus.
Regarding the favicon suggestion there's now a new Option 'Use favicons in article "from line"' that enables the icons in view mode 2 and when expanding articles in other modes. Off by default because it can make the list look a bit "busy". - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13334934, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DanaMW, 7 years agoI have been using Sage for years and I thought I was all set with it until I was forced to look elsewhere because of FF 57. You my new friend out did yourself. FANTASTIC reader. Every inch of it is polished and trim. It was like going from a bike to a Lexus. What a great reader. I am so glad I found it and hope you work on some other projects for this new Firefox. Would be a shame not to. Thank you for this work.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13305990, 7 years agoI have for many years been using the Newsfox add on and consider it to be one of the the best however it appears that it may not be amended to work in FF57 and above. I have been evaluating Feedbro as an alternative and I am impressed with it.
However I would like to make a suggestion - as others here have noted - to have an additional view mode similar to the 3 pane format of Newsfox as I find this to be the most efficient way to select and read articles.
Thanks. - Rated 3 out of 5by dyeray, 7 years agoI think it is actually pretty good for being a new reader and being built on the toy APIs of chrome/nufirefox. It is probably the only feed reader compatible with FF57+, and has some smart ideas, like the rule system.
My 2 cents on what to improve next:
* Improve feed compatibility (4 of my feeds that work on newsfox give an error on this one).
* Make pane resize area bigger than 1px, since right now is a PITA to resize any of the areas.
* Feed refresh cannot be disabled and be set to manual. Some users only need to refresh when they are going to read the news, and don't appreciate having stuff running on the background all the time.
* It would be nice to have a traditional 3-pane mode like the one on rssowl or newsfox, specially with the function to autoscroll every time the last item is selected, so the user does not need to move the mouse all the time to select the next item.
* Allow to rebind the hotkeys, or at least allowing to use the keyboard cursors to select the next article.
Hope you find these suggestions useful.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the feedback.
1. Can you please post the feed URLs that don't work? (or send them to feedbro.reader@gmail.com please). In 99,99% of the cases the reason is that the feed is not valid XML or not valid RSS/Atom/RDF or has timezone set so that feed items are in the future.
2. Resizing should be a rare need but we'll see if a wider border looks ok.
3. In Options you can increase the feed scan interval to 1440 minutes (once every 24h). In the next version there's even longer period and option to disable it. Note however, that many feeds hold only the last 10-20 items. So if feeds aren't scanned in the background, you will lose many items completely.
3. "Autoscroll every time the last item is selected"? Can you elaborate? In the feed panel when you press next (either button or keyboard) the view scrolls automatically if next item is not on the screen.
4. You can use keyboard arrow keys to move to the next article if you hold Shift while doing it (Shift + right arrow = next, Shift + left arrow = previous, Shift + down arrow = next feed, Shift + up arrow = previous feed). The reason you cannot do it without Shift is that then you could not scroll the article with arrow keys which is an important feature when reading articles.
Note that you can also use 'p' (previous) and 'n' (next) shortcuts to move between articles. See the Help for all shortcuts available. - Rated 4 out of 5by Sylvie, 7 years agoI have the message 'invalid xml" or URL contains no feed links for all my sourceforge feeds...
Developer response
posted 7 years agoSorry but we can't repeat this problem either on Firefox or on Chrome (tested on both Windows 8.1 and Lubuntu 16+).
Please try adding one of the feeds again and see if it works. Please check that the URL to the feed points to a valid XML source. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13272507, 7 years agoFirst, I'm happy to have a WebExtension type RSS reader since my former reader, Brief, is going under. This gets the job done very nicely with a clean UI, but there are few areas that could be improved:
* when viewing the index, it would be nice to mark individual posts as read without linking through; some sites have hit or miss content for my interests
* with the above (imaginary) feature and with the existing "mark all read" feature, it would be nice if the index changed the color of the posts like when happens if I do click through
* an option to automatically open the "all items" index when clicking on the app button in Firefox's toolbarDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoRegarding the last bullet "an option to automatically open the 'all items' index" check Options page.
First set "Feedbro extension icon click" to "Opens the Feed Reader" and then check "Open "All Items" view at start" checkbox.
After that when you click the Feedbro extension icon, it will automatically open the All Items view.
We'll add the first suggestion to the Product Backlog. Thanks! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13302234, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12344793, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10802792, 7 years agoI really like this feed reader. Except one issue. After import of opml I see all my feeds in the sidebar below 'Feed statistics'. But after restart of Firefox (55.0.3) all folders and feeds are gone. So empty below 'Feed Statistics'. Please fix.
Update: Issue was still there after update to 3.28.1. After complete remove of FeedBro, restart of FF and reinstall 3.28.1 issue has been fixed. Thanks!Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for the review. New version 3.28.1 was just released which should fix this problem. Not sure if you experienced the problem with the previous version 3.26.5 but please let us know if this issue still occurs with the new version.