not online)… then dragged the “i” icon from the Chrome toolbar into this Firefox window - and it worked then too! I simply dragged the Firefox “i” icon from the top of this page, into the Chrome window - and this page loaded in Chrome! It worked! Then I tried something just a bit trickier, in the other direction - I first (from a bookmark) loaded into Chrome a page from my local web-development server (i.e. (If you hover over it in Firefox, it says “Show site information” in Chrome, hovering it says “View site information” - that’s the icon I’m talking about.) At the top of both browser windows, at the far-left end of the URL bar, there’s a little icon of the letter “i” in a circle. (I did this on my Mac, but I’m guessing it would work on other platforms too.) I’m reading this article in Firefox, so I opened a new blank window in Chrome. I just tried an interesting little experiment, with a useful result. In the past I’ve just copied and pasted the URL, but (even for just one tab) that is a little tedious. Since I’ve rarely wanted to transfer more than one tab between browsers, I’m not inclined to install another extension just for that - especially one that (according to your description) closed all my tabs in the process. Smart RSS Reader has many keyboard shortcuts that you can use to read and manage your feeds. The extension has a bunch of options including a 2-pane view, sorting options, article font size, reader behavior, export feeds to OPML or SMART (text document), etc. The Search box is handy to search for a particular article in your feeds. The toolbar at the top of this pane has three icons: mark all read, update, delete. This one can be used to jump to the next unread, previous unread articles, or to mark articles as unread, mark and next/previous as unread, unpin articles, and to open the article in a new tab. The feeds list pane has yet another context menu. Each feed has its own context menu that has options to update the list of articles, mark all as read, delete (unsubscribe), refetch (redownload), Openhome (opens the feed's website). Use the "New Folder" option in the Feeds pane's toolbar to create a new folder, and move RSS feeds into it. Select a Feed and right-click on it, click on Properties to change the URL, name etc. Right-click on the "All feeds" option to view a context menu which allows you to "Update all, Mark all read, and Delete all articles". The feeds are imported instantly, and the add-on preserves the folders that you have set in your previous RSS reader. Click on the wrench icon in the top right corner to go to the options page, scroll down to the Import section and select the OPML > browse button to pick your OPML file. If you're subscribed to a lot of feeds already, don't worry you don't need to waste time re-adding each of those to Smart RSS Reader. This doesn't work for every site though, it needs to have an RSS or XML feed available which the add-on pulls automatically. This context menu is useful for subscribing to the RSS feed of the website that you're currently on. Another way to add a feed is by right-clicking on the extension's toolbar icon. The extension automatically picks-up the name of the website, its favicon and you'll immediately see the list of articles available for reading. Clicking it brings up a box where you can enter an RSS Feed's URL. The toolbar on the top of the Feeds pane has a plus button. The extension's toolbar icon flashes a badge when a new article has been published, so you won't miss out on reading your favorite sites. Smart RSS Reader supports offline article reading which is useful when you're away from an internet connection. Use the Pin icon in the top right corner of an article's page to favorite it. no misaligned text or items) and it contains the images included in the post too. Smart RSS Reader displays the article in its native format (i.e. It also displays the author's name and the date when the article went live.Ĭlick on an article's title to open it in the browser view, aka the right pane. Selecting a feed displays the title of the articles published by the site in the center pane. The left pane is the feeds pane and lists all RSS feeds that you're subscribed too. It has three panes, each of which has a toolbar at the top. Install the add-on and click its toolbar icon to open a new tab with the extension's RSS reader. Smart RSS Reader is a feed reader extension for Firefox and Chrome that I have been using for a week I'm quite impressed by it so far.
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