feed ur reader doesnt like FX 1.5?

[Guest]

hi,since i just upgraded to firefox 1.5Rc1, i got problem when i see a Livebookmark icon in address bar,usualy when i click that button the greatnews should jump out as default rss reader,but now it does not work!

hav u got the same problem ?
cheers 4 any help!

[Jack]

FireFox live bookmark does not use standard feed:// protocol. There's a plug-in for FireFox 1.0x that can do this conversion. But I'm not sure if it's compatible with FireFox 1.5.

http://www.curiostudio.com/blog/8

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[rodeoclown]

Hi, I used the feed your reader plugin for firefox, and it worked great the first time, asking me if I'd like to make greatNews the default reader for this protocol (the feed:// protocol) and it worked fine in greatnews.

Every time I try to use it now though I just get "GreatNews failed to initialize. No valid newsfeed.db was detected." even though I already have greatnews up and running fine.

any ideas as to how to fix this? As the combination of this plugin and GreatNews makes life really good

thanks in advance

[gtanuel]

I use the extension and Firefox 1.5, too, but find it to be more likely GreatNews bug than the browser/extension. To reproduce the problem:

1. Start -> Run "feed://test.test.com/test.xml"
2. Untick "Retrieve Channel Properties From Internet" and click Next
3. Click Cancel
4. Repeat from step 1, the error will appear

One more thing, GreatNews stores the feed URL with feed:// protocol. Since feed:// is actually just a pseudo-protocol of http://, I propose that GreatNews rename/replace the "feed://" with "http://". When the channels are exported to OPML and imported to other readers (in other machines), I reckon it will have less problem with "http://" than "feed://"

PS: just a reminder, if you decide to do this, you may want to 'upgrade' the DB to do one-time "feed:// to http://" replacement.

[Jack]

several users reported similiar problems. I will take a look at what's going wrong.

gtanuel, it's a good idea to change all feed:// to http://. Next time when I need to update database I will put it in. In the mean time I will change export function to replace feed:// with http:// in next build. Thanks.

[rodeoclown]

Any idea as to why FeedYourReader isn't working?

[Jack]

Any idea as to why FeedYourReader isn't working?

I haven't installed FF1.5 final release. I cannot reproduce the problem with FF1.07 though. I will upgrade as soon as FF prompts me to