610232 - Live Bookmarks do not work for some feeds

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 303567

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Brad Baker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6

We've created an RSS feed with Mirabyte RSS writer and validated it against the W3C RSS validation tool (http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.uniteu.net%2Fupdates.rss) 

At the moment it validates 100% without even so much as a warning. I can furthermore add the feed to Microsoft Outlook 2007/2010, google reader, feedbucket and other readers without any problems.

When I try to add the feed to Firefox as a livebookmark the live bookmark shows up but with no headlines (items) in it. 

I moved the feed to another server thinking the issue might be with the MIME type or something the server was doing  – that had no impact.  

I also created a secondary feed with a single title and description in case the length of our feed or a particular feed item contained some characters that Firefox didn’t like – that didn’t help.  (http://support.uniteu.net/updates2.rss )

I switched the feed type from RSS 2.0, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.91, and Atom and again it made no difference. 

I can’t see where there is any debug log in Firefox to see what it’s doing and thus why it doesn’t like this feed. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://support.uniteu.net/updates2.rss in firefox.
2. Set the subscribe to this feed using to "Live Bookmarks"
3. Click Subscribe Now
4. In your bookmarks toolbar or folder find the feed, the list of headlines indicates (Empty)


Expected Results:  
The feed should contain headlines

Comment 1

[Brad Baker]

Attachment: Screenshot of the live bookmarks menue

Comment 2

[Brad Baker]

I've figured out why this is occurring. Our RSS feed does not contain the <link>http://www.someaddress.com</link> elements for each item. As soon as I add one the feed works. 

I'm not sure if this is by design or not but certainly some sort of warning or logging would be helpful so that other webmasters don't have the same problem.

Thanks
Brad