343029 - Add a complete feed reader

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, enhancement)

Description

[chaitanyaaa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060526 BonEcho/2.0a3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060526 BonEcho/2.0a3

Pretty print should be a way to subscribe to rss feeds not only to preview them (bookmarks the feed URL)

There may be 2 cases
1)at times the user only goes through the headings (or there are no excerpts say like the feed from www.comicalert.com)
2)users wants to read full excerpts for the rss articles say news summaries, blog posts etc.
Live bookmarks caters to 1) whereas pretty print caters to 2)

Therefore subscription options should 
1) add pretty print to the list (then the top yellow subscription options bar is shown only for feeds not subscribed to i.e not in bookmarks)
2) be feed-specific i.e. Fx is not always set to use one reader
(maybe they can be changed through the bookmarks properties dialog for feed links after subscription)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The current feed preview was very intentionally designed to be a feed preview only, and not a feed reader, to avoid some of the resulting design conflicts that wound up getting Feedview backed out of 1.5. You're certainly welcome to ask for a feed reader as an enhancement, it just won't be in 2.0 by repurposing the preview page.

Comment 2

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Firefox is not a feed reader (aside from Live Bookmarks).

This is the perfect place for extensions to add in. 

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 354859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***