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Sage advice taken, popular extension ported to Firefox 3
The question that a lot of people bring up when they're talking about open source extensions and plug-ins is that "What happens when a new version of X comes out, will my favorite plug-in for it work?"In some cases, especially with Wordpress, unfortunately the answer is often No.
But Firefox has a dedicated community that does a really good job of porting over the most popular extensions to new versions of the browser. This makes not only the community strong, but the browser and the Firefox initiative itself stronger.
Sage is an extension that basically replicates a desktop RSS/Atom reader, but it's really lightweight and integrates with Firefox well. That's what Firefox does well. Seamless experience with software and the web.
The new version that works with Firefox 3 is called "Sage-Too". Kind of like Teen Wolf Too, but better. And with no wolves. And without Jason Bateman. He was great in Juno and Arrested Development, but Teen Wolf was not his shining moment.
We digress.
Here's a Sage-Two feature rundown:
- Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds
- Newspaper feed rendering customizable via style sheets
- Feed Discovery
- Integrates with Firefox's bookmark storage and Live Bookmarks
- Imports and exports OPML feed lists
- Technorati and RSS search engine integration
- Support for a number of locales: Argentine Spanish, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish
- Simple, one step install / uninstall
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James said 1:08PM on 6-02-2008
Would anybody like to do a Sage vs WizzRSS head-to-head for me? I'm using Wizz now, and I'm too lazy to uninstall it -- it's working *well enough*, I guess, but I'm curious if this has something else to offer.
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Rackham said 3:12PM on 6-02-2008
If only someone would hurry up and port over Download Manager Tweak to FF3... sigh.
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Max said 3:37PM on 6-02-2008
There are some serious conflicts between sage-two and the default FF3 Mac theme.
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archer said 6:00PM on 6-02-2008
james, i've tried wizzrss and find sage much better.
sage is the best in-browser feed reader and very easy
to try. just export your feeds to opml then import into
sage.
one small caveat. sage now takes a long time load on
initial browser start up, but is fine after that. i'm thinking
it's a bug soon to be fixed.
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Firtch said 11:19PM on 6-02-2008
I'm downloading it just because of the Teen Wolf reference. Looking sharp, Scott!
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