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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.

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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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Permissions

This add-on needs to:

  • Read and modify bookmarks
  • Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history
  • Display notifications to you
  • Access browser tabs
  • Store unlimited amount of client-side data
  • Access your data for all websites
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Version
2.6.0
Size
322.82 KB
Last updated
2 years ago (Jun 29, 2019)
License
Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
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Release notes for 2.6.0
Brief 2.6 series has the new feed subscription UI, as well as many internal improvements.

New in the 2.6 series are:
  • New feed preview/subscription page instead of the one Firefox dropped (requires new permissions)
  • Four times faster feed updates
  • Fixed shortcuts for full view / headlines view that were the other way round
  • Minor fixes to shortcuts, middle-click detection, OPML export, feed updates, unread counter and feed properties window
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