Closed Bug 304788 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Adding a Live Bookmark (RSS/Atom feed) should be simple by not offering multiple feeds

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(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 303848

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(Reporter: slxception, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

When a site offers multiple RSS/Atom feeds for the same news source, and the
user clicks on the RSS feed button at the bottom, a user is offered a choice of
feeds to subscribe to.  In most cases, this will confuse regular users more than
enhance the live bookmark feature.  Instead of offering whether to use the RSS
0.9/RSS 1.0/2.0/Atom/etc, we should be choosing one for the user.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any site that offers multiple feeds (such as MozillaZine)
2.click on the feed button at the bottom
3.

Actual Results:  
I was prompted whether I wanted to subscribe to the "MozillaZine RSS feed" or
the "MozillaZine Atom feed" before getting the Add Bookmark box.  Confuses
regular users.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have chosen one feed as the primary feed WITHOUT user
intervention, and skipped directly to the Add bookmark feature

I am not sure which one (RSS/Atom) is the best, so maybe we should stick to a
hierarchy when there are multiple choices.  We can choose to keep the other feed
sources as a backup if necessary.
Already done as part of bug 303848 (though it doesn't work for MozillaZine,
which says that both feeds are of the same type, so we don't have any way of
knowing that they might be the same content, since the titles might just be
"Feed of articles about RSS" and "Feed of articles about Atom").

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 303848 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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