773 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Dino Conte, 6 years agoA great feed reader that would be perfect with synchronization.
My other wishes:
* Add "share with mastodon".
* Import/Export for all Settings - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12891445, 6 years agoLove Feedbro. My one request is for the ability to toggle the tooltips off (or on, if wanted). Thanks!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13659058, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex Smaili, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13836838, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14727022, 6 years agoI liked it to start; but, it skips articles, so, I need to check the original website. So, it doesn't really end up saving me any time. Perhaps there is some setting I need to change?
Developer response
posted 5 years ago4.5.1 has a fix for the Firefox bug related to Date parsing. We also previously added proper support for XML feeds that are in "oldest first" order. Those two fixes should eliminate the skipping problem. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15060139, 6 years agoThis is a great feed reader, very straightforward and customizable. One problem: certain feeds (BBC for example) show many duplicate entries, despite being present in the feed just once. I don't know if this is caused by the feed or the extension, but I can find no way to disable this. I suspect it may be caused by items (especially developing news stories) being updated, as the duplicates tend to have different timestamps.
- Rated 5 out of 5by prallo, 6 years agoWhen I add a rule I can add a sound too. These sounds are very short ! Can you add longer sounds, please ? Or custom sounds ?
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThank you for the suggestion. Custom sounds will be supported soon (you can give a link as parameter that points to the sound file on the Internet). - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15236949, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Robert Sajdok, 6 years agoIs it possible add a new theme for android version of firefox? Is there a plan for add new feature which allow syncing data between many devices?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15222142, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15206968, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15203482, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15145534, 6 years agoplease add mozilla sync feature in order to be useful across platforms
Developer response
posted 5 years agoTake a look at the API limitations so you'll understand why it's impossible to use that. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/storage#property-sync - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14014094, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by andrzej, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15116734, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Muhammad Iqbal Dar, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15107490, 6 years agoIt seems to skip articles now and then for no apparent reason. I noticed that behaviour when reading web comics, getting confused because of missing pages. The articles show up in the feed preview but that's it. I found no way to have it download an article once it has been skipped. The only fix is deleting the feed and adding it again ... until it skips one the next time.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoWithout the feed URL it's a bit hard to troubleshoot this but Feedbro 4.5.0 now properly handles XML feeds that are in "oldest first" order which might have caused this in certain situations.
Edit (2020-07-29): another thing we noticed (and is fixed in 4.5.1 which is soon available) is that Firefox has a bug in Date object parsing when the year is expressed with just two digits. For example this string "Mon, 31 Aug 20 13:00:28 +0200" was parsed by Firefox JavaScript Date object as Wed Aug 20 2031 14:00:28 GMT+0300. This worked fine on Chromium-based browsers which made it hard to spot. This is also a likely reason for those skipped articles.
Of course, it would be have been a lot quicker to track down with a feed URL to test with. So for everyone else as well: if you think there's a bug somewhere, please include a feed URL that we can test it with. - Rated 5 out of 5by Ruben, 6 years agoI have a question. I want to keep some feeds articles for a long time, so how can I prevent articles from disappearing because of reaching the limit of articles?. I know that I can extend the limit, but I have feeds that have so many articles that this limit is easily overcome, so if I star an article or I set a tag in it, it will not disappear or those will be deleted too?. Is there any way to save articles forever?.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoStarred articles won't be auto-deleted so theoretically they are kept "forever". However, Firefox still seems to have reliability problems with IndexedDB so it's recommended to save your important article links to e.g. Pocket as well (or some other service). See the "Send to" menu in the article context. - Rated 5 out of 5by Mauro, 6 years agoThis is a very useful extension. Remember a lot Google Reader and works very fine!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13274454, 6 years agoI switched from the abandoned NewsFox add-on to Feedbro when FF Quantum went live. Feedbro offers comparable features and I have used it daily since then. Good job !
- Rated 4 out of 5by hoanglan87, 6 years agoOne key point missing to perfect: sync across browser, do you have any manual way to do that?
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13020120, 6 years agoI've used this extensions for at least an year with Firefox for Windows, Linux and macOS and it does a good job. It has a problem with the contextual menu for a feed. On Linux and on macOS, it disappears as soon as I raise the right mouse button (or I raise my hand after a 2 finger press). Keeping the right mouse button pressed and selecting an entry doesn't work either.
Developer response
posted 6 years ago"NOTE 3!: Firefox 66+ on Linux and MacOS has a regression bug that messes up feed tree right-click menu. Workaround: open about:config and set "ui.context_menus.after_mouseup" to true."
Ref. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/