[LINK] Who uses dedicated and individual software for web/rss/mail?

Craig Sanders cas at taz.net.au
Thu Feb 5 22:13:50 AEDT 2009


On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:51:37PM -0800, Michael Still wrote:
> Ivan Trundle wrote:
> > Straw poll time:
> > 
> > Who uses dedicated (i.e. purpose-built) tools for RSS/Mail/Web on  
> > their chosen internet-accessible device?
> 
> I used a bunch of open source ones (LifeRea springs to mind), before
> deciding they all sucked. Specifically there were lots of bugs like
> clobbering my subscription URLs when hotel access points served
> redirects to captive portals.

i used liferea for a while, but prefer reading RSS feeds in a web
browser (iceweasel aka firefox).

iceweasel has adblock and noscript plugins.

liferea doesn't.

that's reason enough.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>



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