Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader From Firefox (bleepingcomputer.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Mozilla engineers are preparing to remove one of the Firefox browser's oldest features -- its built-in support for RSS and Atom feeds, and inherently, the "Live Bookmarks" feature. All Firefox users are probably well accustomed to this feature, albeit not many have ever used it. This feature powers the browser's ability to detect when users are accessing an RSS/Atom feed and then show a special page that lets them subscribe to the feed with a custom feed reader or the browser's built-in "Live Bookmarks" feature. [...] In a recent discussion on the company's bug tracker, Mozilla engineers said they plan to remove feed support sometime later this year, with the release of Firefox 63 or Firefox 64 --scheduled for October and December, respectively.

Comments

Re: Why do I use Firefox Again?

[yurikhan]

So run Tiny Tiny RSS on your own server. Or Go Read. Or any other self-hosted RSS daemon. (Yes, these do use accounts and cookies.)

If you rely on Firefox to poll your feeds, you risk missing posts if you are away from your computer for a while, or seeing dupes if you use more than one.

Re: Why do I use Firefox Again?

[Anonymous Coward]

There are already options for RSS reader add-ons, I use FeedBro myself. So you may or may not get something exactly like Live Bookmarks, but you certainly will have ways to access RSS feeds without leaving the browser or using a web based reader.