293014 - Should be able to add RSS feed by URL.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 255637

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Steve Sinclair]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050429 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050429 Firefox/1.0.3

I recently noticed that this newspaper added RSS feeds, so I checked out their
information page.  The "Live Bookmarks" icon was not at the bottom of the page,
so I clicked on the XML icon and copied the URL.  I looked for an option in
Firefox, thinking I could simply choose "Subscribe to Live Bookmarks" and paste
in the URL, but there was no such option.  I finally found another location on
the site where the Live Bookmarks icon correctly appeared in the status bar, but
I think it's kind of odd that there's no way I could just manually say "New
Feed" and paste in the URL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit site
2. Copy URL
3. ???

Actual Results:  
No place to paste URL to subscribe to RSS feed.

Expected Results:  
"New Live Bookmarks" dialog -> text input to accept RSS URL.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

You can manually add one, it's just rather buried: Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks
-> File -> New Live Bookmark. If you find yourself doing it often enough to be
annoyed by that four-step process, there's an extension linked from bug 255637
to add it to the context menu when you click a link.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255637 ***