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 Thursday, November 30, 2006

Feed Reading in Firefox 2

From Ben Goodger (Googler and Lead Firefox Dev) on RSS in Firefox:

"... Firefox philosophy of having enough features, not too many or too few. In general, we felt that RSS reader was a very personal choice to be made by the user, and that we did not want to compete with existing RSS readers, which are very competent in a variety of ways. Rather, we wanted to allow users to easily subscribe to feeds using their favorite reader."

I love this feature.. it lets me quickly subscribe to feeds through Bloglines.

I think Firefox nailed this one.  A feed reader belongs in a plugin if you choose to use your browser for such tasks.  Keep the core simple and extensible.

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