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> On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:19:56AM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote: > > Any suggestions on rss clients for linux? > Liferea, any of several plugins for Firefox, and Google's > Reader. I'm fairly happy with Lifrea. Pro + Does one thing well, launches to browser easily for those feeds you can't read in a feed-reader. + Virtual Folders are standing query over all subscribed feeds, e.g., "Embattled", "Perl", "Modest Proposal". + Besides URLs, feeds may be output of a commandline or a local file. + It's for Linux first last and only. Con - Since not a plugin, auto-sub from FireFox not handled (that I know of ) - 0.9.6 takes a while to start if you have a big subscription list, and takes a while to clean up after adds/delete/move, which suggests it needs a data structure improvement. [I should check if there's an update ...] - Internal HTML renderer can hang/crash if viewing full pages in Lifrea. (I never do.) Alternative -- RSSOwl is Java based, so will run anywhere, even you-know-where.. -- Bill n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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