280155 - Add root URL to live bookmarks feed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 251491

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Todd Baur]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

Ok perfect example of this: I head over to /. and i notice the little live
bookmarks button pop up. I add it to the bookmarks bar, and now I can see the
top headlines. What if I want to just go to slashdot.org directly? I need to add
another bookmark for it. Let's add a root URL option to it, where we truncate
the feed URL's to the domain name and load the page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Feature request
N/A

Comment 1

[Craig Tyler]

I am also interested in this feature.  I have not fully embraced RSS and still
often like to start at the friendly homepages of the sites I read.  It would be
nice to have a bookmark to the main page as part of the live bookmark.

In my mind a good solution would be to add another field to the live bookmark
properties page which allows the user to enter the main page.  Then, if that
field is not NULL, the URL in it is displayed as a bookmark above the RSS feed
bookmarks.  I guess you could try truncating to automate the process, but a
plain manual option would also be sufficient.

Anyway, that is my $0.02

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251491 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change