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Dear @mozilla
Please, please, please put the RSS indicator back in Firefox.

People need to know about this technology which empowers users over greedy, controlling corporations.

Update: As many have pointed out, you *can* use @thunderbird as an RSS feed reader, and there are many #firefox add-ons to restore the RSS indicator (one of which I'm already using). But my point is that Firefox needs to lean into RSS as an answer to all the crap that is the modern web, and help educate users about it

@cubeofcheese @mozilla

It never had one. It just displays the feed as a generic XML file. But the RSS button let you know the feed was available, and you could copy the URL and paste it into your reader/aggregator.

@RL_Dane @cubeofcheese @mozilla I use Inoreader and don’t actually need that icon…. On the one hand, reminder is good; but on the other hand - unnecessary overloading of the interface (said the person with 100500 addons). RSS needs to be promoted in a more obvious way.

@johan @RL_Dane @cubeofcheese @mozilla I don’t know, I can relate to this but I wondered for so much time where did the RSS icon end up

In the end if we don’t find space for such an icon on the UI we are condemned to look for the same icon in websites. I know Inoreader for example can scrape the page and grab the feed, but it always felt a little bit arcane to me

@RL_Dane Firefox did have dynamic bookmarks, which could be used as a primitive RSS reader. But that's long gone, along with the RSS indicator.

@cubeofcheese @mozilla

@RL_Dane @cubeofcheese @mozilla

Not true. It had a UI for RSS, and it could subscribe to feeds as bookmark folders.

@nik @RL_Dane @cubeofcheese @mozilla This was an Add-On, wasn't it? It just can not recall the name anymore.

@RL_Dane @cubeofcheese @mozilla It also used XDG open (Or similar mechanism) to allow the user to launch the RSS feed/import it into their reader of choice.

@RL_Dane @cubeofcheese @mozilla live bookmarks, Mozilla Firefox had live bookmarks for years and I used them quite a bit