Where did RSS go in Safari 6???

David Schwab wrote:

s4lex wrote:

The reason why I'm "investing" any of my limited time in this discussion thread is that someone or some group's decision at Apple to remove Safari 5's simply beautiful RSS functionality has made my work day less productive.

Oh BS man! Try an RSS reader like Vienna. It's better. Honest. I Missed RSS in Safari for like a couple of minutes. First I used NetNewsWire and then from reconmendation here Vienna. They are very similar, but I like Vienna better.

You will be just as productive, though I'm not sure how reading websites makes anyone productive. If you want to be productive, get off the internet!

You will for the first time see all your feeds in one window. Safari can't do that.

Sorry, but this beats Safari hands down.

Again, no one asked for your opinion. Great, you love the fact that you have to change apps to see "all your feeds in one window". I don't. At all. Not even a little bit.

Just because you LOVE dub-step/jazz/classical/etc... doesn't mean everyone else is going to dig it.

We're not talking about a massively invasive feature that takes over the entire browsing experience and makes it's difficult for new-comers to learn Safari. There was, seemingly, no good reason to remove this execellent feature (and no, a cross-site scripting error is not a reason to remove a feature -- it's a reason to fix the scripting error).

AMF, baby!

I know! Bring back MultiFinder!!

Done! I wish I'd known beforehand.

Also, security certificiates show up to the left of the URL... WHEN THERE ARE ANY. When you switch to another page without one, the URL jumps back to where the certificate would have been. Looks worse.

Another pet peeve: URL after the domain name (e.g. after "discussions.apple.com") is grayed out. Just like Chrome. I don't like Chrome. If I wanted to use Chrome, I would. Looks like I may do that, now.

AND FINALLY, seems there's no way to get it to stop asking to remember passwords. Always hated that "feature".

Absolutley dumb, please bring back this feature, i do not want to use mail to read rss feeds.

I have thousands of feeds arranged in bookmarks, very effecient, now they are all gone. really really dumb, and ugly IMO.

How is being forced to open the rss feed into another application a more elegant design decision?

does someone have some terminal fu to turn this behavoir off?

disapointed

I just released an RSS feed reader that is integrated with Mountain Lion's new notifications. Instead of checking some RSS reader all day, just sit back and wait for notifications. You can download it from: http://www.etresoft.com/etrefeed

Unfortunately, Apple is way behind on reviewing apps in the Mac App Store. I have released a time limited demo until Apple gets caught up.

Disclaimer: I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my link.

PS: I found this post by searching for "RSS" in Apple Support Communities, ranking by date, and clicking the "RSS feed of the list" link at the bottom.

etresoft wrote:

I just released an RSS feed reader that is integrated with Mountain Lion's new notifications. Instead of checking some RSS reader all day, just sit back and wait for notifications.

I don't see how that is an improvement.

I, like many other people I know, do not like the Safari RSS version. I think that is why they dumped it. In fact, my dislike of it is the biggest reason I still use Firefox. I like the Brief add-on. I also use the Vienna, a free RSS reader, as well.

Even though, I do not like Safari's RSS, I think it should be an option that users can turn on and off at their whim. That is similar to my use of TextEdit to write a quick letter, but Apple changed the feature of using its “Dictionary” and substituted it with the employment of search engines.

I agree with you, safari's rss reader was the best. I never used chrome or any other browser just because of that feature alone in safari. I couldn't care less about it being removed from mail, but being absent in safari 6.0 is a BIG DEAL for me. I read a lot of content every single day and without rss integrated into safari I'll be forced to download an app (wich I haven't tried and don't really want to)

APPLE PLEASE bring back the RSS reader to safari 6.0!

Honestly, I've read numerous reports that RSS is dying. It isn't used nearly as much as it used to be used. ..again from what I've been reading. Maybe Apple finds it pointless to maintain due to statistics they obtained. Who knows. However, it is not the end of the world. There are plenty, and in my opinion, better alternatives out there.

Google Reader works really really well and in combination with the application Reeder all is perfect.

It makes NO sense!!!

Why go to Mail if you're just going to link back to Safari?

There is absolutely NO reason why Safari should use Mail to hold its RSS links.

I tried Google Reader and it seriously *****, very difficult to use and the formatting and interface is terrible. I spent 10 minutes and STILL could not find any way to add the feeds I wanted. I just kept on seeing their "Reccomended" articles, which I could NEVER DELETE!

The "RSS Extensions" for Safari are ALL just lame Google Reader extensions. If Apple had just a simple RSS reader extension on their site, none of this would be happening. You are FORCED to use a Google Reader extension if you want to stay in Safari.

What was so incredibly vital that RSS had to be ripped from Safari's code?

Money!

By using RSS you bypass all of the innane advertising. I see no other reason than Google making some sort of deal with Apple. This way Google can continue to track your actions and display the ads they want you to see.

I see absolutely no reason or advantage in keeping the POS Safari 6. As soon as I find an easy way to get the old one back, I'll post it here.

I've heard that Safari was gonna eliminate the RSS and also the activity widow. I use the RSS for the Apple blogs, baseball feeds and comic strip just to name a few. I did try one or two of the other RSS apps and they indeed were inferior to the Safari one. Due to that, I am unsure if I will upgrade to Mountain Lion anytime soon. Activity Window I used, to download for example the McLaughlin Group to watch at a later time. It ***** that Apple has taken away my main uses for Safari.

I too am really disappointed. The downfall of RSS is just competing services spreading FUD. I don't want constant updates, I want to see a summary in a particular category when I have time to read. I DON'T want notifications or twitter feeds, they interrupt my workflow. I want RSS because it works the way I work.

Oh, and I don't want Google to know what feeds I am reading. So no, I am not going to use a google RSS reader.

This is a standard Apple strategy. RSS is old, stable, and boring. Apple is switching to notifications. There is a new Notifications preference pane so that web sites can send notifications directly to Safari. RSS is clunky. It takes one or two hours between updates and it uses an inefficent polling process. It is much more efficient for web sites to be able to push notifications directly to Safari. Transitions are a bit painful but things will be much better in the future.

It gets worse...

I just installed Mountain Lion, only to find on rebooting that mail just deleted all my old RSS feeds (50+), with no record of what they were etc.

So now, I have to go trawling around trying to remember all the blogs etc I was subscribed too.

Poor form Apple..