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RSS is dead, long live Feedview

So the RSS button is gone from the statusbar, and now appears inside the URLBar. Yes, you heard me (and saw, too). So we now have a less-discoverable, less accessible, less flexible solution (no popup menu with a list of feeds any more!). And to top it all off, they are viewed in a hacked-up badly-integrated version of the Feedview extension (note: I have no idea if the Feedview extension suffers from any of the same issues as Firefox does, and don't mean to imply such), meaning you get suck and more suck, including such gems as bug 302749.

Permalink | Author: Silver | Tags: Mozilla, Firefox | Posted: 10:34PM on Friday, 12 August, 2005 | Comments: 2

And then they backed it out. Of both trunk and branch. After all, things that generate memory leaks, encourage checkins of patches with review-, and are a general mess don't suit the Mozilla development process ;-)

Permalink | Author: Hannibal | Posted: 12:08PM on Sunday, 28 August, 2005

Unfortunately they didn't back out the moving of the icon. :(

Permalink | Author: Silver | Posted: 04:00PM on Sunday, 28 August, 2005

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