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

[Kim Holburn]

On 2009/Feb/05, at 12:13 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
> 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.


Good point.

I use a specialised RSS program (RSS Menu) which pops up a menu and  
invokes firefox to actually read the feed.  I don't get the full  
description and pictures, only the headlines but it's usually well  
enough.  I have tried standalone programs like NetNewsWire and firefox  
extensions like Sage and even the builtin firefox feed reader but I  
didn't like any of them much.

Kim
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