What is Your Favorite RSS Reader?

Cyberhwk asks: "What is your favorite RSS reader? I've been trying to find a nice RSS reader. I am most intrested in an rss reader that can be run on OS X but I'm also intrested in Linux and Windows XP as well. I'm mostly interested in freeware because I'm currently going to college and I can't afford anything at the moment. So what do you use for an RSS reader? What does it run on? Most importantly is it free?"

Comments

FireFox Nightly

[Professor Cool Linux]

I use Livemarks. Everyone not using FF Nightlys will see in 1.0. It makes an rss into a folder in your bookmarks...

"RSS feed integration into Firefox... specifically:

- when a page is encountered that has the
link tag in the display an icon in the status bar that opens an Add
Bookmark dialog to add the feed as a bookmark.
- RSS Feed bookmarks behave like folders in that they can be opened, showing the
posts as bookmarks underneath. They should be immutable folders however (cannot
cut, delete from them, cannot insert into them, drag operations blocked).
- the major RSS formats should be supported (1.0 RDF, 2.0 XML etc)

A suggested approach is to decorate such bookmarks with a flag, e.g.
LIVE_BOOKMARK="true" and when the bookmarks datasource is asked for children of
that container, it can see that it's a live bookmark and fetch the content.
Caching of results can be implemented if there are update problems.

As a side note Live Bookmarks are the perfect use case of Scheduled Update
Notifications... they are files that change often and there's a real value in
having the icon change subtly or something similar when there's a new post. This
should not be seen as a pre-requisite for the former however.

I'm not likely to get to this for 1.0 so I'm looking for help to implement...
this would be a great project for someone to get their feet wet in RDF/Bookmarks
code." -- Ben Goodger

Source: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244078 #c1

a web based service

[Masa]

Bloglines

It's a great reader. And always with me there, where I have an Internet connection.

liferea is nice... and forumzilla... and opera

[displague]

Liferea has a clean gnome2 interface and supports atom.. I like it.

I also use Forumzilla from Thunderbird. Opera supports rss directly in its mail client.

Mozilla Firefox & Sage Extension

[duffbeer703]

Both work really well for me!

Bloglines

[sitcoman]

Bloglines.com is a great RSS aggregation service, which handles as many RSS feed as you want, lets you sort and search them, and makes it really easy (compared to others) to add any feed you find on the Net. It's free and of course it's available on any OS. It also means that you never miss an update when you're away from your home PC.

And as a cherry on top, they have apps for all 3 major OS's that work with the website to notify you of updates when you're not using your browser. I don't personally use these helper apps though, so I can't vouch for them.

In summation: you should check it out, it's great!

RSS Bandit

[prostoalex]

RSS Bandit is good, I switched to it from SharpReader some time ago and never went back.

Re:Safari as an RSS reader

[SimplexO]

Firefox will have RSS reading built into it by 1.0. There's your Mac/Linux/Windows solution. =P

They call it livemarks and it autmatically picks up on sites that offer feeds. You can add a livemark by clicking on a button on an RSS/Atom Enabled website. It feels just like a folder of bookmarks (where each bookmark is an entry).