Reviews for Feedbro - RSS Feed Reader
Feedbro - RSS Feed Reader by Nodetics
763 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by dyeray, 7 years agoI think it is actually pretty good for being a new reader and being built on the toy APIs of chrome/nufirefox. It is probably the only feed reader compatible with FF57+, and has some smart ideas, like the rule system.
My 2 cents on what to improve next:
* Improve feed compatibility (4 of my feeds that work on newsfox give an error on this one).
* Make pane resize area bigger than 1px, since right now is a PITA to resize any of the areas.
* Feed refresh cannot be disabled and be set to manual. Some users only need to refresh when they are going to read the news, and don't appreciate having stuff running on the background all the time.
* It would be nice to have a traditional 3-pane mode like the one on rssowl or newsfox, specially with the function to autoscroll every time the last item is selected, so the user does not need to move the mouse all the time to select the next item.
* Allow to rebind the hotkeys, or at least allowing to use the keyboard cursors to select the next article.
Hope you find these suggestions useful.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the feedback.
1. Can you please post the feed URLs that don't work? (or send them to feedbro.reader@gmail.com please). In 99,99% of the cases the reason is that the feed is not valid XML or not valid RSS/Atom/RDF or has timezone set so that feed items are in the future.
2. Resizing should be a rare need but we'll see if a wider border looks ok.
3. In Options you can increase the feed scan interval to 1440 minutes (once every 24h). In the next version there's even longer period and option to disable it. Note however, that many feeds hold only the last 10-20 items. So if feeds aren't scanned in the background, you will lose many items completely.
3. "Autoscroll every time the last item is selected"? Can you elaborate? In the feed panel when you press next (either button or keyboard) the view scrolls automatically if next item is not on the screen.
4. You can use keyboard arrow keys to move to the next article if you hold Shift while doing it (Shift + right arrow = next, Shift + left arrow = previous, Shift + down arrow = next feed, Shift + up arrow = previous feed). The reason you cannot do it without Shift is that then you could not scroll the article with arrow keys which is an important feature when reading articles.
Note that you can also use 'p' (previous) and 'n' (next) shortcuts to move between articles. See the Help for all shortcuts available. - Rated 4 out of 5by Sylvie, 7 years agoI have the message 'invalid xml" or URL contains no feed links for all my sourceforge feeds...
Developer response
posted 7 years agoSorry but we can't repeat this problem either on Firefox or on Chrome (tested on both Windows 8.1 and Lubuntu 16+).
Please try adding one of the feeds again and see if it works. Please check that the URL to the feed points to a valid XML source. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13272507, 7 years agoFirst, I'm happy to have a WebExtension type RSS reader since my former reader, Brief, is going under. This gets the job done very nicely with a clean UI, but there are few areas that could be improved:
* when viewing the index, it would be nice to mark individual posts as read without linking through; some sites have hit or miss content for my interests
* with the above (imaginary) feature and with the existing "mark all read" feature, it would be nice if the index changed the color of the posts like when happens if I do click through
* an option to automatically open the "all items" index when clicking on the app button in Firefox's toolbarDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoRegarding the last bullet "an option to automatically open the 'all items' index" check Options page.
First set "Feedbro extension icon click" to "Opens the Feed Reader" and then check "Open "All Items" view at start" checkbox.
After that when you click the Feedbro extension icon, it will automatically open the All Items view.
We'll add the first suggestion to the Product Backlog. Thanks! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13302234, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12344793, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10802792, 7 years agoI really like this feed reader. Except one issue. After import of opml I see all my feeds in the sidebar below 'Feed statistics'. But after restart of Firefox (55.0.3) all folders and feeds are gone. So empty below 'Feed Statistics'. Please fix.
Update: Issue was still there after update to 3.28.1. After complete remove of FeedBro, restart of FF and reinstall 3.28.1 issue has been fixed. Thanks!Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for the review. New version 3.28.1 was just released which should fix this problem. Not sure if you experienced the problem with the previous version 3.26.5 but please let us know if this issue still occurs with the new version. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13257220, 7 years agoJust what I was looking for. This is very easy to use and clean interface.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13234574, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13234574, 8 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13234574, 8 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13234574, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13230603, 8 years agoNormally I use Inoreader but this addon it's simply the best reader out there. Light and reliable so far on my ancient laptop and without depending of 3rd parties.
Marvelous work! thanks lots!