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Mel

They should add the little rss button back into browsers.

@oopsallnaps Vivaldi still has an RSS/feeds button.

@oopsallnaps I agree! Also, depending on the browser, there are plugins/addons to do just that.

@oopsallnaps @Meyerweb

*whispers* @Vivaldi have done already! *whispers*

@hazelnot If this was 15 years ago, I would agree with you, but I fail to see why that is an issue these days. 🙃

@matt huh? 15 years ago it was much less of an issue, there were other browser engines around. Now it's Chromium and Gecko, and that's it unless you're on an Apple OS.

We're about 20% away from complete Google monopoly on the web and the final death of the open web. 2% on anything not made by Apple.

@hazelnot I worked at Opera both before and after they switched from Presto to Blink, and at the time I thought a move to Gecko would have been a better choice.

However, now we are starting to see Mozilla's goals align a lot more with Google's and so I question whether using Firefox is 'putting your penny in the right pocket'.

@hazelnot Right now, my position is that I'd prefer to see a team with good values and ethics get my support (like Vivaldi) knowing they are also contributing to an open source Chromium to make it better for everyone who uses Chromium.

If things get too wild, they can fork Chromium and start their own version of the engine.

@oopsallnaps I think browsers should turn the bookmarks window into an RSS reader

@lmorchard
Firefox had this... They just removed it altogether... Saying dozens of millions of people using it is not enough... :(
@oopsallnaps

@bohwaz @lmorchard @oopsallnaps Firefox has the Sage-like extension that does exactly this, only with a leaf instead of the RSS icon.

I haven't tried much else, but compared to what I did, it has excellent features.

@oopsallnaps OH hell yes. There is an addon for Firefox that does it, but still hell yes.

@blindcoder @oopsallnaps I use a standalone RSS reader (Akregator) but it would still be cool to have it in Firefox to have at least some feeds on my phone when I'm away from my computer.

@oopsallnaps I just wish web developers properly implemented the “alternate” meta tags to let visitors know RSS feeds exist for the site. I’ve been surprised at just how many sites don’t do that these days.

Perhaps that’s the reason it was removed from most browsers.