Firefox 2 Offically Released (and breaks feedburner !)
story @ Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Now either Mozilla wants to decide what sites can control rss feeds or this is a bug. Normally when a blog site uses Feedburner to manage its’ feed, it will allow the user to see a preview of the feed and then links to add that feed to pretty much every online reader known to man.
Well it’s not possible (that I can see) in Firefox 2.0. You have 4 Options: Live Bookmark, Bloglines, My Yahoo or Google Reader. Plus there is an option to enter in a .exe option. Considering there isn’t a link to add to Microsoft’s Live.com or any other site, this is obviously intentional.
For an example you can look at our feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Dv-depot
or even Feedburners own site:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BurnThisRSS2
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http://stylemire.com/index.php?//articles/Everything-You-Ever-Wanted-to-Know-About-Firefox-2.0.php
The short of it:
1. Open about:config
2. Set the filter to browser.contentHandlers
3. The second entry should be browser.contentHandlers.types.0.title, which should have the value Blogslines
4. We’re going to go ahead and overwrite the entry for Bloglines (not to pick on them, the other will work just as well), first by renaming browser.contentHandlers.types.0.title to Netvibes
5. Now we need to correct browser.contentHandlers.types.0.uri to reflect our new service. For Netvibes, the new value will be http://www.netvibes.com/subscribe.php?url=%s
6. Close about:config and restart Firefox. You can now add RSS feeds to Netvibes with one click! This technique should work with any feed service.
Those are jut the default readers. More can be added via a simple link. Netvibes has one such link. Here is the documentation on how to do it.