275348 - RSS title modifications

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Takeshi Amano]

I keep track of updates of several wiki sites using RSS.
Since it's impossible to change titles of RSS entries, all
whenever I add another wiki to the RSS reader, it cannot
distingush other wiki feed from another since they all have
the same header. It will be very helpful if there are ways
to list RSS feeds that have the same feed name.

Comment 1

[James Cummings]

I also have this problem, but with feeds provided by Mozilla itself!!  The feeds
of latest extensions for thunderbird and for firefox both have the same title.
See RSS link on: 

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/?os=win&application=thunderbird
and 
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/?os=win&application=firefox

Both have the title: "Mozilla Update::Newest Extensions"  And so you can't have
both in the same folder.

Thunderbird should check when adding a feed that an identical named feed doesn't
exist.  If it does, it should rename/offer chance to rename the feed.

Comment 2

[Lukasz Stelmach]

It seems like bookmark etries for rss feeds inherit their titles of the page
they they are found on rather than taking them, as the liveboookmark menu does
it from the title="" attribute of the appropriate <link/> tag.

Comment 3

[Lukasz Stelmach]

oops. I'am sorry the above note is about firefox LiveBookmark feature. I haven't
noticed this is Thunderbird bug. I am sorry.

Comment 4

[alta88]

feed titles can now be updated in the Subscribe dialog, per bug 716706.