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

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:26 AM 6/02/2009, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>>Have you tried Brief? It's a FF plugin and works rather nicely. 
>>It's better than the livebookmark feeds which are only titles. This 
>>provides title and full article options at a click per article. You 
>>can set the refresh time. It has a bookmarking feature that I haven't used yet.
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>I suspect I have somehow installed this plugin!
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>There used to be a time when I could view an RSS Feed as a webpage and at the
>top were options to add it to - I never took much notice and now I don't know
>what they were.

Brief is different from Live Bookmarks itself, which is built in. For 
Live Bookmarks, If you click on the RSS feed symbol on the FF address 
window, it brings up a choice of RSS or Atom. Then the page loads and 
you need to take a step to subscribe if you want to. I subscribe mine 
to a bookmark folder called Blogfeeds. But you could have different 
ones or just add to the bookmark list. Then you can see the titles 
only of articles in those bookmarks. I have my Blogfeeds set in a 
toolbar drop down.

To use Brief, you need to point to the Livebookmark area as the 
source, which could be the main bookmark list I suppose. It then puts 
a footer alert to new entries at the bottom of FF and an optional 
Toolbar symbol as well to click to open the feed as a window.

Jan



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