Firefox 4 dropped feed icon from address bar

As the headline says, no more RSS feed icon on the address bar for Firefox 4. This is quite troublesome for Kukkaisvoima as the links for the feeds are not visible anywhere on the page.

I happily assumed that feeds will be noticed from the address bar of the webbrowser. So now for Firefox 4 users it will be quite hard to find the RSS feeds. I will fix this in the next release and add some RSS links on the sidebar or somewhere where they can be easily found.

It is quite strange decision to drop the feed icon. The icon was nice way to have a common feed subscription method for all browsers. But as Twitter and Facebook also dropped RSS feeds, this only seems to be logical. Nevertheless removing it will probably slowly fade the traditional web feeds into obscurity.

Categories: Kukkaisvoima
Date: 2011-06-27, 327 days ago

Comments

  1. Blake:
    2011-07-26, 298 days ago

    I'm not sure why they removed it either, but I found that you can still add it (not to the address bar) through "View ] Toolbars ] Customize". It's not as good as having it in the address bar but it makes it easier to subscribe to a site.

  2. SMut:
    2011-11-12, 189 days ago

    Sometimes those Mozilla Guys do strange things, many people have blogs and it's easy to subscibe.

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