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by onli 2879 days ago
But it is not about taking it to an extreme. RSS is one old and popular technology (it is far from dead, see how many people use feedly and other feedreaders) that fits perfectly to the mission of Mozilla. To support it properly not much is needed:

1. Show an icon when the current site supports RSS feeds.

2. Make that icon a button that leads to the rendered RSS feed.

3. Have a way there to subscribe to the feed.

Live bookmarks were a strange feature, I'm not saying they are the perfect solution to handle point three. It could be something like the reader selection list of https://www.subtome.com/

> And at times even I give up in favor of simpler, inferior solutions.

RSS is already the most simple solution for its problem.

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Personally I think browsers would be better if they made it easy to get subscriptions into feed-focused tools or services _in a standardized way_. Because browsers are originally intended for browsing and not consuming or producing feeds. (They could expand into such a role, but the reader Ff had didn't aggregate feeds well.)