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RSS Ticker for Firefox - Today's Browser Tip
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Apr 3rd 2006 at 5:01PM
This is pretty neat,
and something a lot of Firefox users have been pining for: a better RSS tool. RSS Ticker is very cool, and should fit the bill nicely. It scrolls your feeds
across the top or bottom of your screen, like a news crawl on the TV news channels (you know who they are). You can
shuffle things up, or focus on one feed, and you can vary the speed, or just turn it off. It's not killing Firefox
either, which is always a good thing. This hasn't been "approved" by Mozilla yet, but looks good to go.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Peter said 5:57PM on 4-03-2006
I'm a real RSS junkie, but that is a really annoying extension. Maybe it's just me, but the scrolling is very distracting. And the process of adding feeds is cumbersome at best. I suppose if you want to keep track of just a few feeds it might work, but I can't image loading up 100 feeds. You'd either never see something you might be looking for, or you'd spend all your time watching the crawl.
For heavy RSS users a dedicated reader is the way to go.
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Raul said 4:01AM on 4-04-2006
I use infoRSS 1.0.1, very similar, and am pretty happy with it : it's very configurable and works smoothly. I did not try RSS Ticker.
Cheers
Raul
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Christopher Finke said 5:20PM on 4-04-2006
Peter - I am the author of the extension, and I agree that this wouldn't be suitable for heavy RSS users. It's oriented more towards the user that wants to have his RSS feeds available without having to browse them. Future versions should make it *more* suitable for heavy use by removing items you've already seen, making more info available about each item, etc., but right now, it's more suitable for just light usage.
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jammo said 6:37AM on 4-05-2006
I use Wizz RSS 2.1.1
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igor said 3:37AM on 5-10-2006
Hi;
Thanks for Ticker.
I use Firefox 1.5.0.3 and just install Rss Ticker1.4.1
I've 5 rss in my 'sage'; but I don't know how to configure 'ticker' to use only one of them that is :
http://www.lamoooche.com/getRSS.php?idnews=2720
Help please.
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