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Mozilla is going to remove RSS-Support/Live-Bookmarks from Firefox
| Why did anyone even use Firefox for RSS when based news boat exists
| >>374601
I don't know what "based news boat" is.
I just found it easy, simple and practical to add a feed to the bookmark-toolbar as a "dynamic bookmark".
I don't mind mozillas descision, as I already switched to waterfox a year ago. It somehow is still efficient althought it keeps the good old stuff mozilla removes in the name of increasing performance. I also love the "organize search-engine" addon combined with "context-search". Firefox became useless to me without it.
| firefoxs built in RSS wasnt good enough for me so i was already using an extension for that
| >>374797
https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat it's really nice because you can set it up to open video and audio links in MPV, magnet links in your torrent client, etc, I don't know when it became normal for browsers to do everything but I hate it.
| Yes, as if they did't consume enough resourses. But, I really like RSS, and it is a technological legate from Aron Swartz. I don't use Firefox, but these news kind of still suck.
| install Waterfox
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| Mozilla will remove the live-bookmark feature from their Firefox web-browser, approximately starting with the 64.xx version.
Mozilla devs adviced to use the web-extensions for RSS functionality in Firefox, which recently replaced the old extension system in the browser.
Conclusion: With firefox quantum, mozilla clearly increased the performance of firefox, but they also abandon a lot of functions which made this browser unique and maybe also popular. At least there are good forks.