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What is Your Favorite RSS Reader?

Posted by Cliff on from the following-the-feeds dept.

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?"

2 of 91 comments (clear)

  1. FireFox Nightly by Professor+Cool+Linux · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  2. liferea is nice... and forumzilla... and opera by displague · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    --
    Marques Johansson