This will probably come to many of you as old news. If it does, I think you’ll agree it still deserves attention. Here’s my take on infoRSS for Firefox.
infoRSS for Firefox
I started using this extension two weeks ago and I’ve had it hard at work for a good 13 hours a day since. The infoRSS extension creates a scroller that sits in your status bar and gives you the feeds of your choosing as they update. You can switch through feeds with the click of a button that sits next to the scroller. You can also add the feed of any page that has one with the single tap of the mouse. The status bar includes a small menu of icons that help you navigate through the options with ease.
The plugin comes with some freedom in customizing the way the feed scroller functions. This is a huge bonus in my view. You can choose to have the feeds scroll, and if you’re not a fan of the side to side view you can have them fade in and out instead. You can also choose to have the feeds come in random or run them as a loop. And you can pick the frequency of the updates.
The following is a full list of infoRSS features.
* RSS feed including RSS Gmail notifier (with https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom)
* ATOM feed
* NNTP feed
* HTML feed (in fact any text document on internet: RDF, txt, HTML…). Extraction with regular expression
* Support for SSL feed (HTTPS)
* Customized refresh time per feed
* Automatic or manual refresh
* Customized number of headlines to display per feed
* Customized number of character to display per feed (status bar is a limited area…)
* Customized favicon per feed or group
* Customized filter per feed : filter on title, subject, headline number, published date, received date, …
* Enable/Disable filter
* Group of feeds
* Customized filter per group : filter for the group or combination with feed’s filter and group
* Full associated HTML article in a simple clic on the headline
* Customized style sheet for headlines : font family, font size, background color, foreground color
* Display headlines in the status bar or in a separate bar (top or bottom)
* Manual resize of the status bar area
* Automatic size adjustment with the window width
* Skip headline
* Automatic scrolling feeds in the headline area
* Manual scrolling feeds in the headline area with scroll mouse
* Manual scrolling by pixel or by headline
* Right to left or left to right scrolling direction
* Customized scrolling speed
* Fade in/out headlines
* All headlines in the main menu as a submenu
* Automatic cycling between feed or group or within feed of a group
* Skip empty feed in cycling mode
* Popup when new headlines are published
* Customized icon bar beside the headline bar
* Mark all headlines as read
* View all headlines at once
* Flashing icon when refreshing
* Read article in tooltip, a new tab or a new window
* Tooltip on headline to see the full title, begin of article, all info or full article without opening a new tab
* Tooltip in HTML mode for rich description
* Tooltip that supports multimedia in ENCLOSURE tag : images are displayed beside the description, and audio and video files are played (podcasting, try feed http://inforss.mozdev.org/inforss.xml) with the firefox embedded multimedia plugin
* Size and type of the enclosure in the tooltip on the enclosure icon
* Tooltip on main icon to display the number of hedline / unread headline
* Option to play/mute podcast
* Display icon near headline in case of enclosure tag
* Persistence of viewed and banned headline even after the session
* Remote synchronization with FTP or WebDav server
* OPML import and export from a local file or a distant ressource (on internet)
* Export the repository in the bookmark hierarchy
* Display the repository on screen
* Display the RSS file in the browser by dragging the feed in the menu on the browser
* Detect RSS feed in the current page and add an item in the menu
* Contextual menu in Firefox to add a feed in the extension repository
* Add any URL in the clipboard to the menu to simply add it to the repository
* Detete a feed in the menu with drag and drop on the trash bin
* Add a feed in a group with drag and drop on the group icon in the menu
* Link to the main web page in one click
* Customized FF add feed menu (orange radar icon) to add feed in infoRSS
* Global activity switch
* Activity switch at the feed/group level
* Collapse headline bar if no headline
* Thumbnail image of the main URL in the option dialog
* Quick filter icon to filter in one click all displayed headlines
* Auto or manual decoding in the HTML feed
The infoRSS extension will be a friend of mine for many more days to come.
Download Link
Official Site
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