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by msla 2629 days ago
When Firefox killed RSS support, they mutilated my bookmarks to remove all of the RSS URLs.

Those bookmarks were mine, and Firefox destroyed them without even giving me a chance to opt-out.

I can't use Firefox if it's going to do stuff like that. I use qutebrowser, instead.

2 comments

To be fair, they communicated that change. Did you miss the chance to export your RSS list? I think it was supposed to export an OPML so you could add them to another feed reader. Some of them are even available as Firefox extensions.

> without even giving me a chance to opt-out

It didn't flip a pref, the infrastructure behind that feature was removed because it was a maintenance nightmare, and not enough people were using it. You could have opted out (for a while) by switching to the ESR.

I haven't tried qutebrowser, does it have extension or RSS support?

> I haven't tried qutebrowser, does it have extension or RSS support?

It has a userscript:

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/master/misc/...

... but extensions in qutebrowser are admittedly in a very early and immature state now, and the codebase for them is going to be changed.

Didn't Firefox automatically export them to an OPML file on your desktop?
No.
Sounds like you got hit by a bug, because it definitively should've: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacement...
So, you just restored from a backup then?