Where did RSS go in Safari 6???

All I want to do is to click on my self-made RSS Tab in the Bookmarks bar in which I stored my 27 RSS feed sites and when I click on one of the links, actually see the page of summary articles displayed in my Browser window. But I can't because Apple removed the functionality to read a feed as a webpage.

How do I get this back? 😕

Basilisk wrote:

All I want to do is to click on my self-made RSS Tab in the Bookmarks bar in which I stored my 27 RSS feed sites and when I click on one of the links, actually see the page of summary articles displayed in my Browser window. But I can't because Apple removed the functionality to read a feed as a webpage.

How do I get this back? 😕

If you download any RSS reader, then when you click on an RSS feed link in Safari, it should open the feed in your RSS reader.

Thanks, but I won't be able to use the back button to go from the article back to the RSS summary, will I? My workflow has up until now been efficient and simple.

Click on RSS Tab in Bookmarks Bar

Read which RSS feed has an update (number in brackets shows number of unread posts)

Click on that link to see the summary of all articles from that sites own RSS feed

Click on an interesting article to read

After reading article, hit Safari back button to return to the summary for that site, then move on until all that site's interesting feeds have been read

Move onto next site in RSS list and repeat.

Although Safari 5.1.7 had the possibility to Read All RSS Feeds in one long list, I only used this to 'mark as read' the sometimes 1,000 or more articles left unread when I go on a trip or holiday.

I really don't fancy having to swap between applications all the time, surely there is a system that replicates the old Safari system? That was brilliant!

the only vialble solution for me, is feedly. it is a bit slow but it works in every browser. it has 'read as full article' function in whole feeds for the 'infinite' scrolling experience. as i like.

you can make folders with several rss-feeds in it and bookmark that collection.

it is not as fast as rss on safari 5, it does not load the rss automaticly in the background and it has no count button per folder in your bookmark-bar. a feedly extension for chrome does have a count-button for all your feeds together. but feeldy or the extension hangs chrome regularly. not the best choice.

so for now i'm still better off with safari and feedly.

this is as close i could get to the original, simple, fast and perfect implementation as before safari 6.

the good old times..

Losing RSS is a big minus for me, but not as bad as some of the butchery done to the iWork apps. I have managed to find a suitable app called NetNewsWire which is OK, but only 90% if what Safari did (even if it in other areas can do more, these aren't things I miss or need). The downer is I think I will have to pay for it at some point. :-(

You buy a $3,000 computer and expect better than this. OS X is beginning to turn into Windows - you can't do anything useful or easily without having to download third party apps.

Thanks for mentioning NNW i also have the beta and have been meaning to get my feeds transferred over now that the writing is clearly on the wall, as it were. Regarding the windblows comment i would just say this; At least we've got along way to go before it's that bad.

I heard about iwork actually warned a client about a project template i made for him.

Transferring the feeds was easy. I had kept all my Safari RSS feeds in a Bookmarked folder and when I opened that in new Safari all I could see was the list of names and no addresses to copy. With NNW open in the Add Feeds dialogue, double clicking (or copying, sorry, can't remember which) on the feed in Safari transferred it to the text box open in NNW and all I had to do was to click the Add box and it was in. It took me five minutes to add 20 feeds and organise them into subject folders - something I didn't know how to do in Safari.

As for the Windows comment, I did only say "beginning to turn" although that probably began with Lion...

Michael J wrote:

Could people who have bitten the bullet and moved to 10.8 or 10.9 post their experiences about how they are getting by? How do you keep track of updates to frequently visited websites? What is your workflow?

Ditch Safari, that is what I did. I use Vienna for all of my browsing. Safari is no longer needed. I am in the process of getting the rest of our family to switch. Its only about 10 users, but thats all I can do to protest Apple's desired demise of RSS.

neil456 wrote:

Michael J wrote:

Could people who have bitten the bullet and moved to 10.8 or 10.9 post their experiences about how they are getting by? How do you keep track of updates to frequently visited websites? What is your workflow?

Ditch Safari, that is what I did. I use Vienna for all of my browsing. Safari is no longer needed. I am in the process of getting the rest of our family to switch. Its only about 10 users, but thats all I can do to protest Apple's desired demise of RSS.

I'll have to say that I kind of threw in the towel and have been upgrading my Macs -- I couldn't undo Apple's lame brained blunder and although I love RSS it doesn't pay the bills. That said, my experience losing RSS and the terrible way that Apple handled it was a milestone I won't forget as an advocate of openness. I went from a life long Apple advocate (have owned original Apple II, Mac 1, iPhone 1, iPad 1, et al) and champion to a jaded "I guess its still better than Windows/Linux for most people, but I'll buy used late model Macs so Capitalist Cook doesn't get any more of my money". Apple is just another meh Coke/Nike/Ford product company now.

The way Apple killed RSS without warning damaged my professional productivity that had increased thanks to the beautifully simple integration of RSS in Safari. I tried switching to Google Reader, but then Google killed that (notice a theme?) -- so I kind of gave up on RSS after trying some of the kludgy RSS readers that folks on here were recommending. I've gotten better at using Twitter and the various Twitter clients, but it's a poor replacement for the golden days of RSS and Safari.

I hadn't looked at Vienna before since it required running another app outside of the browser, but seeing that it is Open Source gives me hope. At least Apple and Google can't flip a switch and kill it overnight. I'll take another look. Here's a nice post from the Vienna folks: Vienna, in support of openness

It’s a big difference to have it in your browser compared to have it as standalone. We don’t want to switch between the browser and rss functionaltiy. Me and a lot of other Mac users miss the built in functionality with had with SL. I used it as live bookmarks and it was awesome.

Workflow:

1. Click the bookmark to see what’s new, click the interesting headline.

2. Click reader.

piero wrote:

The only nice free alternative I found by now. Not checked Vienna, does it requires X11?

Vienna, open source, not controlled by big brother, x11 not used, looks like mac app with toolbar, integrated browser. Not as nice as a real browser, but useful for most sites and your not switching apps to continue browsing or backing up.

so for those of you stil following this thread and still using safari 5. i would urge you to try using Net News Wire after less then a day i have gotten to a point where i am far more efficient with my time then i ever was under safari 5 and with almost the exact same resultant workflow.

NNW lets you default to opening articles in the background (which essentially recreates what i was doing in Safari) and loads feeds better (more content formats supported in direct feed viewing) and faster then Safari ever did.

I know that having all this functionality in one program would be superioir given the correct implmentation but NNW sorta blows safari 5 out of the water in terms of how fast i can parse through the info in the feeds.

Ahh, I see

Safari the Web Browser has finally made the long hard stone stepping progress towards the Finder for the internet on the Internet.

Now we get the "optional bonus pleasure" form the decission making process on how to open every single URL that Links to Anything on the intenet on the Internet.

THIS is progress! How could I not understand this singularity-purpose of the Web Browser from the begining. This is what makes things really simple; it's the sheere tonnage of single purpose Applications that matter. The sheere brutal force of gravity is what makes really brakethrough-technology.

Kind regards

Yes, it seems that Apple doesn't seem to want to listen to their customers in this case. They really want to send all RSS to Notification Center. I hate Notification Center. You can disable Notification Center with this, it even zaps the icon off the menubar. Awesome!

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...7#post15235637

It would be great if Apple would restore this. It makes no sense to push RSS feeds somewhere else (like Notification Center or a third-party app) when you're going to read them in the same browser!

The down side is that Apple probably won't listen. They are busy celebrating thrier 30th for the Mac, a computer that is slowly spiraling down into oblivion.

CT loves to bother the others probably because he earns money with Google clicks... it's not the first time here.

Someone up there should tell him to stop posting this commercial link. Or just ban him!