254871 - Copy Feed Location of detected Live Bookmarks

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 346686

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Sjoerd Visscher]

I have my own aggregator which I prefer over Live Bookmarks. But the feed
autodetection is still a useful feature. But there is no access to the location
of the feed. Maybe a context menu could be added to the feeds in the
autodetection menu that says "Copy Feed Location"?

Sidenote: My weblog does not have a <link> but simply <a rel="alternate"
type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="...">RSS</a> somewhere in the body.
That's not detected yet. By any software. I think <link> and <a> should be
equivalent. (My pet peeve, don't mind if you do not fix it.)

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

dupe of 255637 ?

Check http://philringnalda.com/blog/2004/09/rightclick_add_live_bookmark.php

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 263424 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 259509 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 267956 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Ross Shannon]

*** Bug 269101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[David Fraser]

Re comment #1: No, its not a dupe of bug 255637 - it's the exact opposite.
Bug 255637 is about being able to rightclick on any feed Link and add it as a
Live Bookmark in Firefox.
This bug is about being able to copy the Feed locations that *have* been
detected and are available for subscription (so you can do something else with
them).

Comment 7

[David Fraser]

Note: dupe bug 259509 and bug 267956 also mention being able to send the URL to
Thunderbird directly, to tell it to subscribe to the link.

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 281178 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Ryan Hill]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Note: dupe bug 259509 and bug 267956 also mention being able to send the URL to
> Thunderbird directly, to tell it to subscribe to the link.

both Copy Feed URL to Clipboard and Open Feed in Thunderbird are implemented in
the Livelines extension (http://heygom.com/extensions/?cat=2).

in addition you can send the feed to an RSS extension like Sage or a web-based
reader like bloglines.

Comment 10

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 307364 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 319735 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

*** Bug 335066 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 344239 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

This is finally sailing close to wontfix/extension territory: you should be able to have Firefox 2.0 send subscription requests directly to your feed reader, and if you can't that should be a bug, and if you really need to copy the URL you can copy it from the addressbar in Preview.

And an extension can get away with not working for Mac, where menus don't have context menus, better than we can: making it work cross-platform for multiple discovered feeds would probably require some torturous UI.

Comment 15

[Daniel O'Connor]

I have to disagree: look at http://maps.google.com/

It features a 'link to this' anchor, and it's immeasurably useful for instantly copying a URL to use in an instant message conversation, email, etc.

Imagine:
I am talking to my friend and find a feed I am not interested in; but I want to show them.

Option 1 (copy):
 * Either compose an email or start an instant message
 * Swap to firefox
 * Right click
 * Copy
 * Paste to friend

Option 2 (preview):
 * Compose email / IM
 * Click preview icon
 * Wait for feed to load from site
 * Copy from address bar
 * Paste

Option 3 (preview, but I have autosubscribe on)
 * Compose email / IM
 * Click preview icon
 * Wait for feed to load from site
 * Google asks me if I want it on reader, or customised homepage. I want neither but pick one.
 * View item.
 * Edit subscriptions
 * Find feed
 * Copy and Paste

How clumsy :(

Not having this ability and forcing a user to preview a feed is clumsy - if I autosubscribe to feeds and use google reader as my application; I am suddenly subscribed to a feed which I may have just wanted to share with a friend. Ack!

Comment 16

[Sebastien Celles]

I have an other idea (without a contextual menu)

when you click on the RSS icon on the URL line there is something like :

Add live bookmark for ...

When you click on this a window opens

This window ask where you want to save this live bookmark.

I think a good idea could be to add an input box (a grey read and copy only box) between the name of the live bookmark and the location where it 's stored in "My Bookmarks". this read/copy input box will contain the url of this RSS feed.

So user could select the URL of the feed, copy it (CTRL+C) and cancel...


Regards

Comment 17

[Robert Sayre]

duping to the mega-right-click feed bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 346686 ***

Comment 18

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Verified Duplicate.