Over 3,000 Firefox Fans Can’t Be Wrong

Comments (7) · January 10, 2008 at 9:00 am · Entertainment

I just realized this seconds ago, we broke the 3,000 subscriber mark with our RSS feed. Of course with my luck it’ll go down tomorrow - but hey, I’m going to celebrate the moment while I have it!

Now why did I say “we” and “our”? Well this site is as much mine as it is yours and without you it wouldn’t still be around today. Thank each and every one of you for subscribing and telling your friends about FirefoxFacts.com. Lets not stop now though.

Please keep sharing this resource with others and passing them along our subscription info page so they too will be able to celebrate with us!

Tags: firefox, Firefox News, Firefox-Facts, mitch, rss, subscribers

RSS Bootcamp with Sargeant Firefox

Comments (3) · November 30, 2007 at 7:09 am · Firefox Usability

Listen here Private, I am going to not only give you some tools to get your RSS editing and reading done. I am going to give you the best tools you can load into that browser of yours. Are you ready? Well ten-hut - and sound off.

Alternative and Different RSS Readers

RSS Ticker - watch as your live bookmarks and scrolls their entries across your screen while you surf.

Simple RSS Reader - When you need to get the news fast, Simple RSS gets you there faster.
With only a few clicks you get your favorite news in your toolbar.

Feed Sidebar - The Feed Sidebar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that displays the new items from your Live Bookmarks in the sidebar. It works well - as long as you don’t have many feeds to get through.

InfoRSS - The extension installs a small icon (looks like an earth) in the status bar. The headlines are displayed in the beside this icon in the status bar or in a separate bar (top or bottom of the screen).

Editing RSS Tools and Addons

RSS Editor - Edit your own feed with this extension. It delivers a simple desktop RSS editor for casual editing of RSS 2.0 files.

RSS Validator - Once you open the RSS feed into the browser window, you can right click on the page or goto the Tools menu and validate the RSS feed.

Traditional RSS Reading in Firefox

Wizz RSS News Reader - At first I didn’t like Wizz much (fighting the urge to make a joke about “taking” this Wizz anywhere) but it has improved with time. It is fairly powerful, feature rich, well supported and has comprehensive online help for all.

Sage - The oldest and maybe the best of the built in Firefox feed reading clients. It delivers newspaper feed rendering customizable via style sheets. It also does a good job at integrating with with Firefox’s bookmark storage and live bookmarks.

Beatnik - Simple but elegant news reader for RSS and Atom feeds. It is simple. If your looking for neat features and a “wiz bang” interface, this isn’t the extension for you. If you need a feed reader for a dozen feeds or so and you want it built into your browser, you might want to give Beatnik a shot.

NewsFox - NewsFox is an RSS reader for folks who like Thunderbird’s built in RSS reader, but they don’t use that E-mail client.

RSS Reading on the Web (along with some cool tools)

Google Reader Notifier & Google Reader Watcher - Two grade A addons that give you a way to track when your Google Reader updates with new things to read. Pick which one does the best job for you and stick with it.

BlogRovr - It fetches posts from your favorite blogs about anything you’re browsing, and shows you summaries you can open read posts without leaving the web page you were on.

Tags: bootcamp, editing, feeds, guide, links, reading, rss

Best of the Firefox Links (Halloween Edition!)

Comments (3) · October 31, 2007 at 6:29 am · Resources

Been a good week for those of us who like to tweak and edit our favorite Firefox browser. Here are just a few links that have made their way to my saved list.

• Another Gmail Apple Theme?
• Tip: Pause/Restrict/Disable Animated GIFs
• Automatically translate RSS feeds with Google Reader and Firefox
• Best Firefox Feed Readers
• Auto-Hide Your Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar
• Get More from Google Notebook Guide (some Firefox goodies)

Spooked yet? Ok, so not many of those were all that scary - but they were useful! Now if you are really looking for a fright, go use Internet Explorer.

Tags: auto-hide, firefox, links, readers, roundup, rss

Ad Free RSS Feed for Firefox Facts

Comments (8) · October 3, 2007 at 1:49 pm · General Posts

I have decided to remove the FeedBurner ads from the Firefox Facts RSS feed. In all honesty it just wasn’t really returning enough of the green stuff to be worth it to me - and if it means I can get a few more subscribers and visitors to FirefoxFacts.com, then ditching them is well worth it.

So might be time to pass this URL to all your friends, amigos and buddies:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/firefoxfacts

Now ad free but still full of goodies!

Tags: Ads, feed, Firefox-Facts, free, rss, updates

Add Google Reader to Gmail

Comments (2) · August 27, 2007 at 6:10 am · Firefox Hacks, Greasemonkey

Do you like to multi-task? Why check your e-mail and read your feeds in two different web applications when you can get it all done in one by combining the power of Google Reader and Gmail.

Now I have talked before about the Gmail + Google Reader greasemonkey script before. After giving it another shot the other day though I noticed the experience is much more polished. What does that mean? Well looking at it right now it really looks like it belongs there - and doesn’t just look like an out of place web page stuck on another web page.

If you haven’t given this greasemonkey script a try in a while, it might be time to do so. Also if Google Reader isn’t your thing - you can do the same thing with Google Calendar too.

Tags: Calendar, Google, Greasemonkey, mashup, reader, rss, scripts

Add to del.icio.us from Google Reader

Comments off · August 8, 2007 at 6:40 am · Greasemonkey

One thing I have been looking for, for a while is a way to add del.icio.us link saving to Google Reader. I use both products, and they just seem like they should merge together nicely. Thanks to the Google Reader + del.icio.us Greasemonkey script now I can.

This script adds the “Add to del.icio.us” button to the bottom of each post and then gives you all the regular fields, so you can edit the extended info, description and tags before sending it to your del.icio.us list.

Tags: delicious, firefox, Google, links, reader, rss, save, scripts

Beatnik - Another Simple Newsreader

Comments (1) · July 10, 2007 at 10:13 am · Firefox Usability

There have been a number of RSS feed extensions out there that turn Firefox into a syndication master. You can go from browser to RSS reader and back within the blink of an eye - and not have to worry about launch a new web site or a new program.

One new extenion RSS feed reader that recently caught my eye was Beatnik. It promises to be a “simple but elegant news reader”. With a description like that whats not to love?

It is simple. If your looking for neat features and a “wiz bang” interface, this isn’t the extension for you. If you need a feed reader for a dozen feeds or so and you want it built into your browser, you might want to give Beatnik a shot.

Tags: extensions, feed-reader, feeds, firefox, rss, subscribe, syndication