Reviews for Drop Feeds RSS
Drop Feeds RSS by dauphine-dev
Review by Firefox user 14091313
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 14091313, 7 years agoThis is a good replacement for Sage, however the only reason I am giving it 4 out of 5 stars instead of 5 is because I have a couple issues with it. First, I usually have to click the Drop feeds button twice for the sidebar to open up. Second issue is that it doesn't seem to work right with the Tom's Hardware RSS feed. Just shows the same article multiple times. Didn't have that issue with Sage or Brief.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for your support.
And thank you for reporting issues, it is important it helps me to make Drop Feeds better.
I will take a look at that and see how I can fix that.
Edit:
1. about "click the Drop feeds button twice for the sidebar":
- I can't fix that, because "browser_action" button is not designed (at Firefox level) to open the side bar but a popup window. Then Drop Feeds uses a workaround to open the sidebar, but this implies that when Drop Feeds is not loaded to click twice.
2. about "...with the Tom's Hardware RSS feed. Just shows the same article multiple times.":
It is fixed in 0.7.13
Edit2:
About "click the Drop feeds button twice for the sidebar":
It is fixed in 0.9.4alpha1, available here: https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds/releases
It will be available on AMO when 0.9.4 will be ready.
And thank you for reporting issues, it is important it helps me to make Drop Feeds better.
I will take a look at that and see how I can fix that.
Edit:
1. about "click the Drop feeds button twice for the sidebar":
- I can't fix that, because "browser_action" button is not designed (at Firefox level) to open the side bar but a popup window. Then Drop Feeds uses a workaround to open the sidebar, but this implies that when Drop Feeds is not loaded to click twice.
2. about "...with the Tom's Hardware RSS feed. Just shows the same article multiple times.":
It is fixed in 0.7.13
Edit2:
About "click the Drop feeds button twice for the sidebar":
It is fixed in 0.9.4alpha1, available here: https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds/releases
It will be available on AMO when 0.9.4 will be ready.
63 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "Frostbyte" Shepherd, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by it1804, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Crook, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16498015, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16891558, 4 years agoАвтоматической пометки о прочтении нет. Сохраняемых фидов по ссылке мало. Нет отображения числа непрочитанных. Но работает шустрее, чем распиаренный Briеf
Developer response
posted 3 years agoThank you for your feedback, there are options for "automatic mark as read", "display of the number of unread" and many other stuff. Yes, you are right, there is not default saved feeds. May be I can think to add some in a next version.
Sorry for the answer delay, I missed the notification. - Rated 5 out of 5by Adverb, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vedun, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by onesolo2, 5 years agoThkx for the excellent addon!! At last a true Sage alike addon. Only one problem, when I export to opml, I have a lot of directories and sub-directories, the directories schemes are not saved and the RSSs get all to be on the same "directory" (or root). Can you fix this, please?!
Developer response
posted 5 years agoI have just checked on my side folders are exported.
Please can you open a ticket on GitHub (https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds)
and paste a full export, and an opml export in the ticket.
(Or the folders are exported, but the target application doesn't manage the folders ?) - Rated 5 out of 5by mrp_x, 5 years agoAll good!
Except I'd like to be notified if there are news. Don't notify me about "no feed has been updated" ... at least make it optional.Developer response
posted 5 years agoThank you for the review, I will look to do that optional.
Edit: In Drop Feeds 1.0.3 you can disable it from Settings/Update checker/Don't notify if no feed has been updated - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15184555, 5 years agoAs advertised. But...
IMHO it's too much 'bloated' in compare to the original 'Sage' addon. On the other hand the 'Sage-Like' addon, is much more true to the spirit of the original. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sage-like/Developer response
posted 5 years agoDrop Feeds has all same features than Sage++ had and nothing more. But then yes has more sage than the original Sage. If you prefer sage-like, no problem have fun with it. It is a good thing to have choice, then users can choose what is the best for them. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12280781, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by VisualDigits, 6 years agoSuper! I use it on a daily basis for reading the news since many years now.
I wish this addon would also be greenlighted for android now. - Rated 5 out of 5by jkincaw, 6 years agoThank you for making Firefox great again!! Sage was my main window to the news, and nothing else worked as well for me.
I got hooked on the 3-pane, text-oriented format while reading the Tidbits newsletter in setext form. It packs the most info on screen. - Rated 5 out of 5by td101, 6 years agosince FF57 i was looking for a replacement for my beloved Sage++ (Higmmer's Edition) and didnt update my FF since then so keep it running. This add-on looks like the perfect replacement
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14744526, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14743775, 6 years ago一部不満（更新の判定にSageではなくSage++ (Higmmer's Edition)の方を参考にしていると思われる挙動）があるものの、Sageの代替としてまあ満足
- Rated 5 out of 5by wilgoe, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Adrian Jones, 6 years agoThis is a worthy replacement to Sage, thank you for developing it.
However, just recently, when clicking on a site, the feeds open in another tab. This didn't happen previously, and I can't find anyway to stop this happening
Thanks.
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Thank you for the explanation, this and the update have fixed the problem.
Many thanks.Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi Adrian Jones,
Have you tried:
- Settings/Content area/Render feeds -> to enable/disable Drop Feeds to render (open) a Feed in a tab ?
- Settings/Content area/Always open new tab -> to enable/disable Drop Feeds to render (open) a Feed in a new tab (because you said "in another tab", I guess it is the setting that you want, or may be "Reuse Drop Feed tab") ?
Edit:
I have just saw that there is an issue with "Reuse Drop Feed tab", it will be fixed on next version
Than you ;-)
Edit2:
The fix is available here:
https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds/releases/tag/0.9.5rc2
Any way, if everything is fine I will push this version Wednesday on AMO
Edit3:
The fix is now available in 0.9.5 on AMO
Why 2 stars removed, there is anything else that I can improve ? - Rated 5 out of 5by PsiloFX, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14573568, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by mr.hornung, 6 years agoit seems like i finally found a good replacement for my old rss-reader, so thank you for your work.
however, i have two issues:
1. i can't seem to be able to find a way to delete single articles within a feed. the second column which shows them has no button for that, and when a right-click an article, the context-menu also doesn't offer a delete option. am i just stupid or is there no such feature?
2. in the same column, the "open unread feeds in new tabs" doesn't do anything.
if those could be resoved, i'd be happy to give 5 stars.
my setup, by the way, is firefox 64.0 on linux mint cinnamon 19.1 64 bit.Developer response
posted 6 years agoThank you for your feedback:
About 1.: You can delete feeds (feeds are hosted by Drop Feeds), but not articles, because articles are hosted by the the feed provider not by Drop Feeds, but you can mark them as read (may be I can add an option to hide read articles ?)
About 2.: You have found a bug ;-) I will fix that on a next version -> https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds/issues/92 -> it is fixed in Drop Feeds 0.9.3c
Edit:
About 1: Now Drop Feeds 0.9.4 has an option to hide visited articles (the strikethrough eye icon) - Rated 4 out of 5by The_Mick, 6 years agoI like this RSS app best of those that have appeared since Firefox stopped providing it because you can put your feeds in folders (ABC News, BBC News, etc.) and get a simple, 1-line-each headline so you can scan a lot at one glance
I also like Feedbro, but it uses up so much space and repeats so many headlines, sometimes I can only see 5 different stories among the 14 headlines it shows.
Drop Feeds also repeats headlines frequently - somehow the old Firefox did NOT do that, but the longer list makes it less objectionable.
You can either use the RSS/Drop Feed Icon that may appear in the URL box or click Drop Feed's Open Options Tab and select "Subscribe by URL" and enter the URL - I had to do that for ABC News RSS feeds.
I wish it really used a "drop down box" instead of a sidebar, which is how you could organize them in the old Firefox RSS.
One serious improvement should be that when you click on a headline the article will appear in a Firefox tab. Currently you have to click on the headline and then click on the article that appears the the bottom of the sidebar to get it to open in a tab.
A minor problem is that you can't initially do anything with a folder after you create it. You can only change its position in the list and put feeds in the folder if there's already at least one feed in the folder - which can be done in the subscribing step.Developer response
posted 6 years agoThank you for your feedback.
You said:
1. One serious improvement should be that when you click on a headline the article will appear in a Firefox tab. Currently you have to click on the headline and then click on the article that appears the the bottom of the sidebar to get it to open in a tab.
2. A minor problem is that you can't initially do anything with a folder after you create it. You can only change its position in the list and put feeds in the folder if there's already at least one feed in the folder - which can be done in the subscribing step.
About 1.
I not sure to understood well.
There are many way to use Drop Feeds.
a. you can open feed in a Firefox tab and the click on a article headline and the article will be opened in a Firefox tab
b. you can display feed (list of article headlines) bottom feeds treeview in the side bar and click on a article headline and the article will be opened in a Firefox tab
c. you can display feed (list of article headlines) bottom feeds treeview in the side bar and click on a article headline and the article will be display in the side bar bottom the feed (list of article headlines), and then click on the article headline to open it in a Firefox tab.
d. different mix of options above...
Looks in Settings/Items and/or Settings/Content area to change displaying articles and feeds options
About 2.
I will look what I can do
You can create an issue on https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds, then you can add a picture to see me what you want exactly about 1.
Edit:
In Drop Feeds 0.9.4 folder drag and drop has be improved, now it should be work - Rated 5 out of 5by Sylvain, 6 years agoInstallation et import des flux sans problème. Pas de bug constaté pour l'instant. Très content d'avoir trouvé un outil simple et efficace !