Reviews for Feedbro - RSS Feed Reader
Feedbro - RSS Feed Reader by Nodetics
763 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by untrained, 6 years agoI had high hopes for this extension but the interface feels really clunky and unintuitive. I'm providing this feedback hoping that at least some of these points can be improved in future updates.
- I keep expecting to be able to right click an entry in the article list to display a context menu to mark it as unread/read, mark this and all previous articles as read/unread, star, etc., but this opens it in a new tab instead and I see no way to change that functionality.
- For some reason sometimes when trying to switch between feeds by clicking on one the first click only highlights the feed and a second click is necessary to actually switch to it, this is intermittent though. (This may have something to do with having two Feedbro tabs open and adding a new feed on one of them)
- Selecting "Show only unread articles" doesn't refresh the list so it initially seems like it's not doing anything.
- When changing the "Feed entry content" it's not obvious that only new articles will be effected so again, this initially appears to do nothing.
- When using the Dark theme, if using the full article view and the page includes hard-coded dark fonts the text is almost invisible.
- The Feedback link for the Firefox extension for some reason brings me to the Chrome Web Store instead of the Firefox Add-ons page.
- The tooltip for marking an article as read reads "Mark this entry read/unread - Shortcut: m" but this seems to only work intermittently, if it stops working refreshing the page allows it to work again.
- It's great that this supports keyboard shortcuts, but for some reason arrow keys aren't used. I would expect to be able to move through the list of articles with arrow keys.
It's obviously not all negative though, I was surprised that this RSS reader supports custom rules and I love how much control this gives me to change what is displayed. The functionality to search for RSS feeds in the current page is simple but also very useful. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13283676, 6 years agoI propose to add such a function starred items cannot be deleted without confirmation. Or fasten the star-marked news. To avoid accidental deletion.
- Rated 5 out of 5by dvestezar, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14272636, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14981827, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14643647, 6 years agoOne of the best RSS reader not only on browser, but ever! This addon can be alternative to big services and can do much more than them. Thank you a lot Nodetics.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tan, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14969340, 6 years agoFeedbro popup doesn't follow selected theme colors...it always white...and no way to export Feedbro custom settings...please add. Thanks!!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13177355, 6 years agoIt repairs what Mozilla destroyed, build-in rss will not be forgotten.
- Rated 5 out of 5by olegklm, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14589218, 6 years agoGreat Feed Reader
ps. future-> auto backup .opml to Google Drive/dropbox ...!!!! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14642310, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14799164, 6 years agoupdate!
Thank you for considering more light themes.
I checked the popup size again and it looks like even though the font size is changed the size of popup didn't actually change as much as I thought. Sorry for the confusion! You can change it back to previous bigger font size if you want (in fact I think I'm in favor of your bigger font change now too as it did make titles/text a lot easier to read). Ability to change font size for the popup in settings page could be a good addition. Thanks again for the splendid addon!Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the feedback! We'll adjust the popup text sizes and are working on a new theme. Setting for the font-size is a good idea and could be implemented. Expect to see improvements also to view mode 2 very soon.
Edit: Feedbro 3.41.2 (just released) has a new theme called "Chill". It's light but less bright than the "Light" theme. - Rated 5 out of 5by howaboutyou, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13221270, 6 years agoDoes this one rush to update all feeds at once? I mean, I have, let's say, 50 feeds from a certain website and updating 50 in one moment results into "service unavailable" errors for half of such feeds.
What does "Feed update threads" option do? Is it what I ask about, or not?Developer response
posted 6 years agoAs the tooltip for "Feed update threads" select box says, it defines the maximum number of concurrent threads when updating feeds. Thus the scenario you describe is not possible. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13182750, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13997275, 6 years agoMy first feed reader, very nice indeed... i'm just wondering why every feed just records 10 entries, even after setting "Maximum entries to save" to 50 or 100
Developer response
posted 6 years agoIf you open the feed in a normal browser tab, you can see that the XML content contains only the latest 10 articles. Feedbro can't initially load more articles than the feed provides. Later when new articles are published, the old ones are preserved until the "Max entries" number is reached. After that the oldest article is removed. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14729715, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14737469, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lyubava, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bash, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by laclac1, 6 years agoVery good but this addon has an important problem for me. The folders aren't visible in the popup. You show a list of latest articles in the popup but everything is mixed and it's not sorting by folders. It's disappointed. I change by 5 stars if the folders are used in the popup. I will use feeder while waiting :(
Developer response
posted 6 years agoIf you prefer the popup view, then there's the "Open Explorer" menu which will show the folder structure. - Rated 4 out of 5by syd1507, 6 years agoExcellent, until FF 66 : the "right-click for options" (on a feed title) seems to no longer work. The popup appears but closes when you release the right-click (in order to left-click & select the option)...
Feedbo 3.39.0 on Firefox 66.0 (64 bits) / LinuxDeveloper response
posted 6 years agoThis is caused by a recent regression bug in Firefox. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535068
We'll see if there's a way to get around this somehow but the problem is that it works fine on Windows but not on Linux or MacOS.
Workaround: open about:config and set "ui.context_menus.after_mouseup" to true.