Closed Bug 298299 Opened 20 years ago Closed 9 years ago

allow option to remove duplicates from RSS feed

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Feed Reader
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9413

People

(Reporter: ittayd, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 i'm registered to feeds from del.icio.us. when different people bookmark the same site, it is sent multiple times in the feed. right now, what i do is i view only unread messages, never deleting old feeds. i have a script which is activated via a context menu and iterates over all messages, deleting those with duplicate message-id. the problem is that it's not very efficient, and it would be best to delete the feeds when receiving them. Reproducible: Always
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158032 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Marking this as UNCONFIRMED until I (or someone) can figure out if this is going to be different code for the Suite and Thunderbird.
mail equiv is bug 9413
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: allow option to remove duplicates from feed → allow option to remove duplicates from RSS feed
QA Contact: rss
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Component: RSS → Feed Reader
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
Long ago, this was a very big problem for feeds, but that was fixed.. long ago. And there is a dupe mechanism, per bug 9413.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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