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Reviews for Feedbro - RSS Feed Reader

Feedbro - RSS Feed Reader by Nodetics

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  • by Robert Sajdok, 6 years ago
    Is it possible add a new theme for android version of firefox? Is there a plan for add new feature which allow syncing data between many devices?
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  • by Firefox user 15145534, 6 years ago
    please add mozilla sync feature in order to be useful across platforms

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    Take a look at the API limitations so you'll understand why it's impossible to use that. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/storage#property-sync
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  • by Firefox user 15107490, 6 years ago
    It seems to skip articles now and then for no apparent reason. I noticed that behaviour when reading web comics, getting confused because of missing pages. The articles show up in the feed preview but that's it. I found no way to have it download an article once it has been skipped. The only fix is deleting the feed and adding it again ... until it skips one the next time.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Without the feed URL it's a bit hard to troubleshoot this but Feedbro 4.5.0 now properly handles XML feeds that are in "oldest first" order which might have caused this in certain situations.

    Edit (2020-07-29): another thing we noticed (and is fixed in 4.5.1 which is soon available) is that Firefox has a bug in Date object parsing when the year is expressed with just two digits. For example this string "Mon, 31 Aug 20 13:00:28 +0200" was parsed by Firefox JavaScript Date object as Wed Aug 20 2031 14:00:28 GMT+0300. This worked fine on Chromium-based browsers which made it hard to spot. This is also a likely reason for those skipped articles.

    Of course, it would be have been a lot quicker to track down with a feed URL to test with. So for everyone else as well: if you think there's a bug somewhere, please include a feed URL that we can test it with.
  • by Ruben, 6 years ago
    I have a question. I want to keep some feeds articles for a long time, so how can I prevent articles from disappearing because of reaching the limit of articles?. I know that I can extend the limit, but I have feeds that have so many articles that this limit is easily overcome, so if I star an article or I set a tag in it, it will not disappear or those will be deleted too?. Is there any way to save articles forever?.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Starred articles won't be auto-deleted so theoretically they are kept "forever". However, Firefox still seems to have reliability problems with IndexedDB so it's recommended to save your important article links to e.g. Pocket as well (or some other service). See the "Send to" menu in the article context.
  • by Mauro, 6 years ago
    This is a very useful extension. Remember a lot Google Reader and works very fine!
  • by Firefox user 13274454, 6 years ago
    I switched from the abandoned NewsFox add-on to Feedbro when FF Quantum went live. Feedbro offers comparable features and I have used it daily since then. Good job !
  • by hoanglan87, 6 years ago
    One key point missing to perfect: sync across browser, do you have any manual way to do that?
  • by Firefox user 13020120, 6 years ago
    I've used this extensions for at least an year with Firefox for Windows, Linux and macOS and it does a good job. It has a problem with the contextual menu for a feed. On Linux and on macOS, it disappears as soon as I raise the right mouse button (or I raise my hand after a 2 finger press). Keeping the right mouse button pressed and selecting an entry doesn't work either.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    "NOTE 3!: Firefox 66+ on Linux and MacOS has a regression bug that messes up feed tree right-click menu. Workaround: open about:config and set "ui.context_menus.after_mouseup" to true."

    Ref. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/
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  • by Mellobob, 6 years ago
    I use this app lots of times every day and really love it. I was getting a bit desperate that I couldn't delete feeds and found that setting ui.context_menus.after_mouseup to TRUE fixed that. Now, my only beef is that duplicate articles are not collapsed: eg, the BBC site may have 10 articles all with the same header and it becomes distracting to page though them all (INOreader has this option). Thanks!
  • by Firefox user 15072463, 6 years ago
    A great free offline alternative to other RSS services.
  • by tterac, 6 years ago
    I was using Reeder on Mac and was looking for one that works on Windows. I tried many RSS reader apps (including online apps, Windows native apps and browser extensions). Among them Feedbro is the only one that works with all my 250+ RSS URLs with no problem.
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  • by Firefox user 12442412, 6 years ago
    this extension has great functions，but It's a disaster when indexdDB error comes to me(many times) ，even though I refreshed firefox at about:support, it still comes to me after a while（didn't update firefox），btw my firefox version is 68.0b7 (64 bit)

    I hope this extension could be stable , and if this problem can't be fixed, I only have to turn to inoreader= =
  • by dpurple, 6 years ago
    Must-have extension for me, thank you for making it! My only question/suggestion would be if there is a way to export/import the starred items list?