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Brief by Adam Kowalczyk, Denis Lisov

Brief makes reading RSS feeds as easy and intuitive as it gets. Designed to have exactly the right set of features, it is powerful and simple at the same time. Feeds are presented on a seamless, interactive page which let's you bookmark and tag items with a single click.

4.2 (191 reviews)
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Brief displays on a seamless page. Unread items are highlighted and there are buttons on each item to mark it as read, bookmark it, or delete it.Headlines view gives you a more compact display. You can also choose to view only the unread items, or the bookmarked ones.Brief checks feeds for updates in the background and notifies you about new items.
About this extension
Easily bookmark and tag interesting items. Browse your feeds in a couple of useful ways - view only unread or bookmarked entries, display a single feed or a whole folder, show full items or only headlines. Quickly find a piece of news using the search bar. Let yourself be notified when new items are available and track their number using the status bar. Customize the look of feeds. Use keyboard shortcuts to browse the pile of news faster. Above all, do everything simply and intuitively.
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Required permissions:

  • Read and modify bookmarks
  • Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history
  • Display notifications to you
  • Access browser tabs
  • Access your data for all websites
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Version
2.7.5
Size
393.55 KB
Last updated
2 months ago (Jun 22, 2025)
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Release notes for 2.7.5
Brief 2.7.5 is a bugfix release fixing a couple regressions:
- handling of feeds that have entries with no links (broken in 2.7.4)
- switching between full and headlines view in preview mode.
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