289535 - option to hide already visited Live Bookmark items

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260849

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[completeja]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Live Bookmarks are an excellent way to consume RSS and Atom feeds.  However,
every feed that I've looked at (not too many) have a pubdate, dc:date, or
updated/issued.  With these dates, it would be trivial for Firefox to restrict
items older than the item in the feed which the user had last viewed.  This
option would require the user to browse the feeds in chronological order, but I
would happily do so since it would drastically reduce the number of items
displayed, and would only exclude the items I had viewed or didn't want to view.
 This would make browsing a news feed much easier.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new Live Bookmark.
2. View an item from the bookmark listing
3. 

Actual Results:  
The Live Bookmark still shows the item just viewed as well as older items. 
While not a bug, this makes checking a news feed significantly more tedious.

Expected Results:  
Allowed me to select an option (maybe about:config or in Preferences) to hide
all old feed items.

For a bug similar in code change but different in functionality, see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264840.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

preventing auto-resolve (+ it's a valid request)
->New

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

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

i think hiding them is not a good idea, what if you later need to look again at a page? bug 386115 is probably a better way to handle this and is more generic on the way to do that.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

sorry meant bug 260849