RSS feeds

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RSS feeds

I have recently imported an html doc. of my bookmarks from firefox to safari. I noticed that the RSS feeds do not seem to be working the same way that they would in firefox. In firefox, if you scroll through your bookmarks to a web page with an RSS feed, you can see all the RSS feed articles in the web page's sub-menu without having to load the page. I cannot see these live feeds in safari. There are RSS icons in the url bar, which enable you to view recent feed history, but what's the point of an RSS feed if you have to load up the page view the feed. I thought the whole point of feeds was so that you could look to see what was new, then choose to load the page. Once the page is loaded, you don't need the feed. Seems a bit of a false economy, really.

If you can advise me, i would be most grateful.

cheers,

Barry.

mac, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Feb 11, 2010 4:30 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 11, 2010 12:30 PM in response to Peter Tron

HI,

Go to Safari/Preferences or (Command + comma) and select the RSS tab.

Make sure you have your prefs correctly.

Also, go to ~/Library/Preferences and move the com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist file to the Trash.
The pref file may be corrupted as a result of the import.

Relaunch Safari.

Carolyn 🙂

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Peter Tron Author

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Feb 11, 2010 5:30 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Hi Carolyn,

I checked the safari pref. earlier, and it is ticked as 'automatically update articles in [bookmarks bar]', which is where i have placed my folder with the imported html bookmarks, they are definately located whithin the bookmarks bar.

I could only locate the file 'com.apple.Safari.plist', [there was no file with 'rss' in the name]. Is this right? when you say, "~/Library/Preferences", I assume the "~" donates the 'house' symbol 'home' folder?

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