Comments on: Firefox 3’s feed subscription feature: convenience for the masses or a dangerous precedent?

By: Luke Morton

Luke Morton — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:06:52 +0000

I just found this website from searching out of frustration for a solution! A much needed feature I agree.

By: Michael Foord

Michael Foord — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:40:02 +0000

Yup – this behavior is most annoying. I’ve just removed google reader as my default feed reader allowing me to view source again.

By: Jure Merhar

Jure Merhar — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:18:41 +0000

Type this in the address bar:
view-source:http://your.feed.url/

Hope that helps. ;)

By: mahalie

mahalie — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:31:40 +0000

*smacks forehead* Thank you for this. Ya know, I looking applications but I was looking for “RSS feeds” or XML not “Web Feeds”. Trying to debug my rss right now and it has been SO painful!

By: zeta

zeta — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:17:12 +0000

I hope whoever decided to change the behavior of Firefox 2 to this crap goes to hell.

By: Denis

Denis — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:55:34 +0000

Hi Aral,

A lot of websites include different formats (Atom, Rss) for the same feed and eventually different feeds (news, articles etc).

Do you want FF to list them all in the address bar ?

Denis

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:35:13 +0000

This is a very good point. I learned HTML exactly the way you described (literally by viewing source code and messing around with it), and I still think the ability to do things like that is valuable and important.

By: Kelvin Luck

Kelvin Luck — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:38:54 +0000

I’ve been annoyed by the same thing recently… Especially when I was trying to debug an RSS feed I was creating… I came across this handy little page which helps a little although I agree that it should be available within the browser (plus the page converts the RSS so you aren’t seeing the raw source but a beautified version of it):

http://planetozh.com/projects/rss2html/

By: dan

dan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:14:30 +0000

I hear ya – when I got really desparate, I just loaded the feed into a swf and output it from there.

Turns out this worked perfectly for me – and since then i’ve never had to worry about it. But I guess that only works for flashies, and not for HTML’ers.

By: bjorn

bjorn — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:13:18 +0000

haha, finally someone else that this annoys the hell out of! :-)

Everytime I need to debug an rss feed, or for some reason check how it looks like I need to switch from FF to Opera to view the source there..