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title: "Bye Bye, Sharpreader" date: 2004-03-14 20:30 modified: 2004-04-27 17:40 status: published tags: software, RSS, Firefox

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Since the demise of the free FeedDemon betas, I'd been using Sharpreader or Wildgrape NewsDesk (depending on what mood I was in) to read RSS feeds. Neither was perfect, but I'd settled on Sharpreader, despite the oh-so-slow notification pop-ups (this on a 2.5GHz machine...). But today I thought I'd give the RSS Reader Panel for Firefox (<a href="http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#rssreaderpanel">http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#rssreaderpanel</a>) another try. Guess what? It's pretty good. The <samp>Open In Contents Area</samp> option now produces a spiffy-looking display, with the option of customising the CSS used (so you can't complain even if you don't like it). </p>
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The addition of new feeds isn't as slick as it might be, but it's just as easy as creating a new bookmark ...because you just have to create a new bookmark. There doesn't seem to be an option for intermingling all of the items into a single date-sorted list, but that's not too much of a worry. </p>