Reviews for Feedbro - RSS Feed Reader
Feedbro - RSS Feed Reader by Nodetics
Review by untrained
Rated 3 out of 5
by untrained, 5 years agoI had high hopes for this extension but the interface feels really clunky and unintuitive. I'm providing this feedback hoping that at least some of these points can be improved in future updates.
- I keep expecting to be able to right click an entry in the article list to display a context menu to mark it as unread/read, mark this and all previous articles as read/unread, star, etc., but this opens it in a new tab instead and I see no way to change that functionality.
- For some reason sometimes when trying to switch between feeds by clicking on one the first click only highlights the feed and a second click is necessary to actually switch to it, this is intermittent though. (This may have something to do with having two Feedbro tabs open and adding a new feed on one of them)
- Selecting "Show only unread articles" doesn't refresh the list so it initially seems like it's not doing anything.
- When changing the "Feed entry content" it's not obvious that only new articles will be effected so again, this initially appears to do nothing.
- When using the Dark theme, if using the full article view and the page includes hard-coded dark fonts the text is almost invisible.
- The Feedback link for the Firefox extension for some reason brings me to the Chrome Web Store instead of the Firefox Add-ons page.
- The tooltip for marking an article as read reads "Mark this entry read/unread - Shortcut: m" but this seems to only work intermittently, if it stops working refreshing the page allows it to work again.
- It's great that this supports keyboard shortcuts, but for some reason arrow keys aren't used. I would expect to be able to move through the list of articles with arrow keys.
It's obviously not all negative though, I was surprised that this RSS reader supports custom rules and I love how much control this gives me to change what is displayed. The functionality to search for RSS feeds in the current page is simple but also very useful.
- I keep expecting to be able to right click an entry in the article list to display a context menu to mark it as unread/read, mark this and all previous articles as read/unread, star, etc., but this opens it in a new tab instead and I see no way to change that functionality.
- For some reason sometimes when trying to switch between feeds by clicking on one the first click only highlights the feed and a second click is necessary to actually switch to it, this is intermittent though. (This may have something to do with having two Feedbro tabs open and adding a new feed on one of them)
- Selecting "Show only unread articles" doesn't refresh the list so it initially seems like it's not doing anything.
- When changing the "Feed entry content" it's not obvious that only new articles will be effected so again, this initially appears to do nothing.
- When using the Dark theme, if using the full article view and the page includes hard-coded dark fonts the text is almost invisible.
- The Feedback link for the Firefox extension for some reason brings me to the Chrome Web Store instead of the Firefox Add-ons page.
- The tooltip for marking an article as read reads "Mark this entry read/unread - Shortcut: m" but this seems to only work intermittently, if it stops working refreshing the page allows it to work again.
- It's great that this supports keyboard shortcuts, but for some reason arrow keys aren't used. I would expect to be able to move through the list of articles with arrow keys.
It's obviously not all negative though, I was surprised that this RSS reader supports custom rules and I love how much control this gives me to change what is displayed. The functionality to search for RSS feeds in the current page is simple but also very useful.
726 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13243261, a day ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Andrii, 14 days agoИгнорирует записи(считает таковые прочитанными), которые незначительно отличаются в заголовках, например, номером версии.
К сожалению отсутствует поиск. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16799549, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän D. Shepherd, 23 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by RichT54, a month agoThis was working perfectly until the latest Feedbro update. Since then I do not get any sound when new entries are found on my feeds, although the number on the icon does change. The rule has not changed and the sound option is still set.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fortunate_Fox, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Fire RaG, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DeAndre Queary, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Yves, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by islisis, 2 months agoMost intuitive rss reader for FF I have found so far. I would like to ask the developer to consider the option to disable certain shortcut keys, as even when unset they override existing shortcuts in FF (such as alt-1...8 for selecting tabs in Linux.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Violeta Hernández Palacios, 2 months agoAs both a developer and a user, this is by far the most functional and flexible feed reader available.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13595430, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lhommeatetedechouette, 3 months agoSpróbowałem i zmieniło to moje życie na lepsze ;) Wróciła radość z czytania i oglądania treści od swoich ulubionych, zaufanych twórców - bez reklam, rozpraszania i zakłócających odbiór, głupawych algorytmów nabijających kabzę milionerom. Trzeba trochę pogrzebać w ustawianiach, bo niektóre moim zdaniem ważne opcje (jak pobieranie całej treści artykułów, zamiast jedynie skrótu z początku) nie są domyślnie włączone, znaleźć swój ulubiony układ interfejsu i przyzwyczaić się nieco do tego jak działa - ale potem jest już tylko lepiej. Szkoda, że lista subskrypcji nie może być automatycznie backupowana bezpośrednio z Firefoxa - trzeba pamiętać o backupie do pliku przed reinstalacją rozszerzenia lub przeglądarki.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Henrique, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Georgios, 3 months agoIt needs an option to disable the unread feed entries count showing on the extension icon.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nader-sama, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18454566, 3 months agoBeen looking for a simple, free, in-browser feed reader since Google reader died. This is it.
Imported my opml export from my old reader. It handles my podcast feeds and news feeds and is very customisable. - Rated 5 out of 5by Gunnar, 3 months agoGreat feed reader, highly customizable. One detail I like is the titles view where you for example can scroll various news headlines for all feeds in a folder and check single teasers by clicking on the title bar (not on the title link).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Beneficent, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tuana, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18408723, 4 months ago