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by sabret00the 4839 days ago
But how much were these services really offering? It is one thing to attempt to charge for a superior service, but for the most basic of services? That's a whole different story.

IMHO, feed reading should be integrated into the browser as a tab, not in the hands of commercial interests. But that's an aside.
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julien 4839 days ago
Browsers have commercial interest =) There is room for both.
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tmgrhm 4839 days ago
>IMHO, feed reading should be integrated into the browser as a tab, not in the hands of commercial interests.

This is a really interesting idea. Has there been any talk in Chrome development about building a browser-side RSS reader? Google would still get all the information they get from Reader now but they'd be making the 'feature' exclusive to their browser. This coming not long after Apple removed their feed managing ability in the web browser, meaning they could get a load of Chrome converts on OS X just from that.

It'd be really interesting to see what happened if browser-side RSS became "the thing" again. Although, as julien pointed out, doing it browser-side doesn't necessarily mean your RSS isn't in the hands of a commercial interest.

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greyfade 4838 days ago
It was tried, IIRC, early in Firefox's development. It ended up being scrapped for some reason, and it didn't really work all that well.

Opera has a feed reader, too, but I never really found it to be as usable as Thunderbird or Akregator (neither of which I really like.)

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zeckalpha 4838 days ago
I don't think it was completely scrapped. I know some people who use live bookmarks.
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iki23 4839 days ago
won't scale for hundreds of feeds; I use thousands
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mpyne 4839 days ago
Interestingly, this already work in IE, at least as far back as IE7 (which is how I monitor RSS feeds at work).
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jimmaswell 4839 days ago
How good is Firefox's rss handling?
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jimworm 4839 days ago
Check out Brief for Firefox, I've not felt a need to consume RSS any other way. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/
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jimmaswell 4827 days ago
I've been using that for a while now, it's pretty good. Seems to take up a lot of memory and cpu after a while, though.
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