327371 - Send RSS feeds to Thunderbird from within Firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 325083

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Peter C. Frank]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

This is a request for an enhancement. I love the way that Firefox discovers RSS/Atom feeds, but I'm not too crazy about the way it actually displays them. I love the way that Thunderbird displays RSS feeds -- as messages in a mail folder, but I'm not too crazy about the way it discovers them (you have to manually add feeds to Thunderbird through a somewhat clunky interface).

I'd love to have the best of both worlds: When Firefox discovs RSS/Atom feed and you click on the feed icon in the URL bar (or when you click on an RSS/Atom feed link in a web page), it should send a "command" (for lack of a better word -- I'm not a programmer!) to Thunderbird to add that RSS feed to Thunderbird's RSS feed reader, much in the same way that clicking on a "mailto:" link opens up a mail composition window in Thunderbird.

Of course, this should be an *option*, so that people who don't want this behavior can have their RSS feeds served up completely by Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Yup, that's part of the 2.0 design: see http://wiki.mozilla.org/Feed_Handling#Subscribe_Button

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 325083 ***