Firefox "V" IE

sra

RSS feeds are a way to get the 'headlines' from a site without actually visiting it. There are various ways to display these feeds - I've seen one program that makes them scroll accross your desktop

Firefox displays RSS by making them into "live bookmarks"

Eg here is my bbc live bookmark showing the latest headlines. The contents of this bookmark will change during the day as it is updated

(the bbc page in the background is just coincidence - I could look at the feed with any page displayed)

EDIT:sorry Talon - must have been writing this while you were posting the answer

sergeant121

You begin to realise you are getting old when you ask a question and two helpful people answer - and you comprehend absolutely none of what they say (thanks anyway people, I'll just muddle through as I am).

sra

sergeant121 wrote:

You begin to realise you are getting old when you ask a question and two helpful people answer - and you comprehend absolutely none of what they say (thanks anyway people, I'll just muddle through as I am).

Some sites make it easy to get rss. If you go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/ you'll see in the bottom right of your browser (unless you've changed the theme in which case you might see a different orange symbol)

Just click it and select "subscribe.."

The bookmark menu will popup and you just bookmark it

Once you have it in your bookmarks you'll probably understand:)

Talon_Karrde

indeed tis true...i am yet to find a way to know that a site has an RSS feed without the little orange symbol, which is why i had to ask sra where the links for the RSS were on here...now i got a big ole folder of 'em!!

sergeant121

sra555 wrote:

... you'll see http://www.mozilla.org/images/screen-firefox-rss-icon.png in the bottom right of your browser (unless you've changed the theme in which case you might see a different orange symbol)

Not on mine, I don't. There's no text there at all.

But I did see an orange loudspeaker symbol and clicking on that did something.

Curry_Queen

At the risk of sounding thick here ... could someone please explain to me how to get the links that sra posted to show as livefeeds in bookmarks?

I managed to do the BBC one ok using the orange symbol, but when I clicked on the other links there was no orange symbol and just a page full of html coding and I tried bookmarking the page anyway but it doesn't come up as a live feed

jma_4

If you don't see the symbol in the bottom-right of the status bar and can actually get to the XML (described by Curry_Queen), just copy the address and then click 'Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks'. This should open a new window where you should then click 'File->New Live Bookmark'; paste the address you just copied.

Curry_Queen

jma wrote:

If you don't see the symbol in the bottom-right of the status bar and can actually get to the XML (described by Curry_Queen), just copy the address and then click 'Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks'. This should open a new window where you should then click 'File->New Live Bookmark'; paste the address you just copied.

Thank you ... all sorted now

sra

I'll need to try and write up how to get rss feeds in the This site:questions and suggestions board in the next day or so.

But I want to find the best way for non-firefoxers to get the feeds first so I don't bore everyone.

and sorry to take your thread so much off topic rush

Talon_Karrde

i didn't think IE (as an example) was RSS enabled?