Where did RSS go in Safari 6???

Richard Olpin wrote:

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..

You didn't have everything backed up before installing a new version of an OS?

Dear Inspiratron,

RSS is also missing from Mountain Lion's Mail, so now that I have updated I cannot even use RSS there. RSS keeps me up to date with the latest news. Using Safari, I could always know how many articles for each feed I still had not read. I could also click on articles within the same program and be taken to the full version. It was very handy. I hope Apple realizes how useful it was for many of us and puts it back in a future update.

He could have had all the links, for the very least. Once he found a respectable replacement RSS Reader then he could have imported everything into the new tool. There are plenty of other ones out there just a matter of time of finding the right one for your needs. There are quite a few in the Mac App Store already and I'm sure many online solutions.

For whatever reason, Apple felt it was necessary to let go of RSS. I don't understand it myself but it is a sign to either move on to alternative forms of news/information aggregation or look to 3rd party RSS solutions for now. I long ago moved away from Mail.app as my RSS reader and migrated everything over to Google Reader which from there I use an application called Reeder (in iOS and Mac App Stores) to read my Google Reader feeds. I found it convenient cause I can read the feeds on my phone or on the desktop and it is all synced together.

Nice one! I am going to go back to the old Safari thanks to that, RSS support in Safari was convenient and descreet, and helped to notify you of news updates, not you have to run another programme to do something simple like read the news. - daft

I agree, the Safari developers should bring this back, and I hope they do

for 3 years i been using PULSE in my iphone and ipad to reed my rss feeds..but in my mac always use Safari...Pulse is interesting and keeps my feeds in sync between my devices so i hope Pulse release a version for MAC

I was hoping this update would be the reason to switch to Safari. But it looks like I'm staying with ROCKMELT, still don't understand why apple does t buy this browser and use the RSS bar it has. Syncs with iphone and iPad. Plus has had Facebook integration for over a year.

Bring RSS back to Safari 6

Apple has dropped support for reading RSS feeds within the browser. Instead, Apple asks that you use a dedicated RSS reader when you want to peruse the latest links. But what if you don't want to use such a reader? You can still see RSS articles in Safari with a little help from Apple's automation utility, Automator.

Launch Automator (in the /Applications folder) and in the template chooser that appears, select Service and click Choose. Configure the top of the workflow to read Service Receives No Input in Any Application. In the Actions library select Internet and drag the following actions into the workflow area: Get Specified URLs, Get Link URLs from Articles, and Display Webpages.

In the Get Specified URLs area, click Add and add the address of the RSS feed you wish to view in Safari - http://safari--support.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss for example. In the Get Link URLs from Articles action, be sure that the Only Return URLs In The Same Domain As The Original Webpage option is enabled. This ensures that you don't wind up with articles pulled from other websites. Save your workflow.

Now, if you click Run in the top-right corner of the workflow, Safari will launch and open multiple tabs, each displaying an article from the feed. In the future, when you want to run the workflow, simply select Services from any application’s application menu and choose your workflow from the submenu.

Add a temporary feed

This is fine if you always want to view feeds from the same websites. But there may be times when you wish to view another site’s feed just once. Return to your workflow and in the Get Specified URLs action click on Options. In the area that appears, enable the Show This Action When the Workflow Runs option and save the workflow.

When you next invoke the workflow a Get Specified URLs window will appear. Within it, click on the Add button and enter the feed address for the site you wish to pull articles from and then click Continue.

Filter the feeds

Using this workflow you may encounter sites that have dozens of articles in their feed, offering more tabs that you may wish to click through. You can modify the workflow to filter articles so that you see just the ones you’re likely to be interested in. In this case, create a workflow with actions in this order: Get Specified URLs, Filter Articles, Get Link URLs from Articles, and Display Webpages. The Filter Articles action is new and it works like this.

If you want to change your filtering options each time you invoke the workflow, you already have a clue how to go about it. Return to the workflow and in the Filter Articles action, click on Options, enable Show This Action When the Workflow Runs, and save the workflow. When you next run it you’ll be able to configure the action and enter new filtering options - Content Contains SafariSupport, for instance.

Message was edited by: SafariSupport - http://safari--support.blogspot.com

Yes I know you're trying to help but 1) you didn't cite the source but rather claimed it as your own; and 2) inserted your own links thereby becoming a commercial promotion. To my definition and the dictionary's, that's plagiarism. Thanks

Apple listens to feedback via the feedback links. The fact that "Save As" has returned to Mountain Lion is clear evidence of that.

Apple does not read these forums. We are just other Apple users. We can't make Apple do anything. All wa can do is offer suggestions to work around the changes.

Allan Eckert wrote:

Where is "Save As" in Mountain Lion?

It is hidden under "Duplicate" when you hold down the option key. Apparently, Autosave can be disabled too in Preferences > General > Ask to keep changes when closing documents

One of Apple's stupidest moves yet. First of all, if you have lots of RSS feeds, Safari was the best, most flexible way to weed through them. And most of the dedicated readers are crap -- nowhere near as easy to ready, nowhere near as flexible in what to show and how much of the feed to show. And you have to switch apps to read RSS. Apple's getting like Microsoft, where they think they know what we want and the best way to work. In both cases, they are usually wrong!

Add me to the list. I am very unhappy about this.

Additionally, Apple still has all the links to their own RSS feeds in their site but their own browser no longer supports it.

Apple, please give us back this functionality so I can use Safari again.

+1 to 4wight's comment. There is no other solution to this other than for Apple to get their act together and release a 6.01 update to Safari where they restore the godd*** RSS functionality. NOW please.

Bring it back Apple.

This decision has bothered me more than any other Apple has made recently, it's really got under my skin. I think it is because I have trusted Apple beyond other companies to make elegant, beautiful objects and interfaces that just work, get out of the way and let me do what i need to do. This decision has left my world an uglier place, I spend more time in my browser than I do in my own living room and it feels like someone has broken in and swapped my sofa for a couple of pallets. Ok that sounds strong but the previous version was an elegant solution, it minimally informed me of unread feeds, without any hassle, the interface kept out of the way, became invisible, now I have 2 apps back and forth, its ugly. And this is what really worries me, that they would make an ugly decision, it goes against everything they stand for and erodes my trust in Apple to strive to be something better, to make something better.

As a 28 year user of using Apple gear, please apple bring RSS back to safari.

Simplicity, Beauty, Elegance of form and function are what put Apple at the top, if they loose this idea then we have entered the decline, I hope this is not the case.

Joemo

Dropping RSS support from Safari with no warning, no transition path, further antagonizes Apple's long-time-loyal customer base. They are forcing us to consider other vendors, other browsers. Is that a smart strategic move?