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[Fulvio]

I thought that RSS may be neat, in some cases, so I install Sage, and the two web sites I tried gave me XML parse error, i.e. no style associated with them.
One was for ibiblio.org, the other was for WebMD.
Looking at the Users feedback, I can see that there were a lot of problems. Has anyone got any decent RSS to work?

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[Alice]

Do you mean RSS as in Live Bookmarks? OR, you mean something else by RSS? (I have no idea what you mean by Sage). If you just want to try it out, there are a few Live Bookmarks-enabled sites mentioned in this article:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox ... marks.html Live Bookmarks

Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Firefox that lets you view RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. With one glance, quickly see the latest headlines from your favorite sites. Go directly to the articles that interest you—saving you time.

A site is enabled for Live Bookmarks when you see this icon on the bottom right corner of the browser. Clicking on the icon and selecting an RSS feed will bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select 'OK' and you will see Live Bookmarks with the rest of your bookmarks. Many people find it especially convenient to save Live Bookmarks in their Bookmarks Toolbar folder.

You add a Live Bookmark on enabled sites such as http://www.mozillazine.org/ http://slashdot.org/ and http://news.bbc.co.uk/ by clicking on the orange RSS icon and then clicking "Subscribe" to bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. I subscribe to the RSS feed from mozillazine.org. (I placed the Live bookmark in the Personal Toolbar folder). According to the article above, there are other ways to subscribe to RSS feeds but I haven't looked into it.

Firefox will create a "folder" for the Live Bookmark in the Bookmarks Manager. However, I share bookmarks between Firefox and Mozilla (browser.bookmarks.file preference) so when I add or remove bookmarks in Mozilla, it changes the bookmarks file which kills the Live bookmark for Firefox. I just changed my Firefox user.js file to move the bookmarks to a different location from Mozilla to see if it's more important to use Live Bookmarks or to share bookmarks.

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[Fulvio]

Thank you. By RSS I mean the same thing you do, and Sage is an extention which, presumably allows one to deal with. And, yes I was able to get WebMD, as I thought in Live Update, but it was not it. I never saw the icon, although I had the website obtained from WebMD. Other sites such ibiblio.org have an XML link of sorts. That downloads a file with .rss extention, and that 's no good, at least for me. Maybe the problem is with Sage. I got Wizz News Reader, which has tons of sites already available.
I have still to figure it out, but it seems a no-brainer when compared with any other I tried. There is so much to do with it that I don't know when I will have any further feedback, but I will try.

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[Gregor]

Fulvio:
when I came to the Website with RSS (XML file) I just add bookmark for it. When the added bookmark is pressed, the tree with themes is expaned (it autoupdates itself of course).
Any luck?

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[Alice]

Other sites such ibiblio.org have an XML link of sorts. That downloads a file with .rss extention, and that 's no good, at least for me.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox ... marks.html Live Bookmarks

Advanced Tips

Add Live Bookmarks manually

Some sites don't tell Firefox that they support Live Bookmarks, even though they actually do. If you know the URL of a site's RSS feed (url ends with .rdf or .xml), you can manually create a Live Bookmark for the site. Go to the Bookmarks menu and select 'Manage Bookmarks'. Under the 'File Menu', select 'New Live Bookmark'. Create a name for the Live Bookmark and add the URL. New articles from that site will appear as Live Bookmarks in Firefox.

So then, to manually add the RSS feed as a Live Bookmark:

Copy the XML/rss link location (right-click on the link, copy link location) then open the Bookmarks Manager window, select the folder where you want to place your live bookmark and then go to File > New Live bookmark, give it a name, and enter the URL from the RSS link (Ctrl-V to paste).

I tried it at http://www.ibiblio.org/ and it worked. The ibiblio.org RSS Feed link goes to:
[tt]http://www.ibiblio.org/rss/ibiblio.rss[/tt]
....Just add that URL when creating your new live bookmark

P.S. I did some reading up about Sage and looked at the "getting started" guide at:
http://wiki.mozdev.org:8080/cgi-bin/moz ... ingStarted

The above page links to http://reuters.com/newsrss.jhtml which contains more information and lots of links you can add. For example, I manually added the Top News link, [tt]http://www.microsite.reuters.com/rss/topNews[/tt] to my Bookmarks Toolbar folder.

I can't see the advantage of adding the Sage extension since adding RSS links manually through the Firefox 1.0 Bookmark Manager's File > New Live Bookmark feature seems so easy.

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[Fulvio]

Agreed. There is no reason for an extention, other than to provide feeds, perhaps. But, I never got any icon to click on, as the Mozilla site mentions.
Anyway, thanks to you, alice, I got what I wanted, and it is no big deal.

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[Alice]

Thank you Fulvio,

Without your question I never would have looked into it

By the way, I edited out my earlier comment about ".rdf" urls. I found one right at http://www.mozilla.org:
[tt]http://www.mozilla.org/news.rdf[/tt]

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