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Reviews for Brief

Brief by Adam Kowalczyk, Denis Lisov

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  • by Cirnos, 2 months ago
    Just perfect: I can customise it to my liking and it's free as in freedom!
  • by djarr, 7 months ago
  • by cbars, 7 months ago
  • by Firefox user 16357508, 7 months ago
  • by the_nort, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 12685044, 2 years ago
    Any updates on the search box?
    This feeds reader is the best and most flexible you could possibly find for browsers, in my opinion. It was fantastic, until the search box stopped working. The search box is the absolutely essential base part of this reader. It enabled searching through abstracts and reduce the posts only to matches. Otherwise, reading through 10000 entries per day is impossible. Almost 5 years past, but the search option still not working. I'd be willing to pay the developers to get the search box working.
  • by Firefox user 16697030, 3 years ago
  • by Vedun, 3 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13417633, 3 years ago
  • by 孤影绫音, 4 years ago
    默认ui美化差点，但是总体体验太好了，简直完美
  • by Firefox user 15277310, 4 years ago
  • by Pavel, 4 years ago
    SQLite database of this add-on has became 500MB after several years of usage. Deleting of old items does not help to shrink database :(
  • by Firefox user 12760379, 4 years ago
    Very nice, thanks for that!
    User luprobert created a Dark Mode, works nice, have a look: https://github.com/luprobert/briefnightmode
  • by Grindelka, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15196385, 5 years ago
  • by aforest, 5 years ago
    This is great, thank you so much! It would be very nice to have keyboard shortcuts to change between the feeds.
  • by carlos, 5 years ago
  • by DiverSant, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15647507, 5 years ago
    Best feed reader there is.
    For me, the only missing feature is an ability to edit the feed's URL.
  • by Firefox user 12984996, 5 years ago
    I have been using this extension for a long time. Easy to use.
  • by luprobert, 5 years ago
    Great extension, I've been using it for a long time.

    I have created a Dark Mode version for myself. If someone wants, can use the CSS i have modified.

    Here is a link for Dark Mode:
    https://github.com/luprobert/briefnightmode

    Hope you find it useful!
  • by Léa Gris, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15321914, 5 years ago
    This is one of the best FeedReader i've seen. The only thing i'm missing from the old version is the ability to search (the field is there but does nothing/no input possible) and a nice "Dark Mode". Then it would be perfect for me :)
  • by Salah, 5 years ago
    A very good addon, I'm using it since 2010, but lately I start having a problem with the page direction, because I have feeds in both Arabic and English context and it doesn't appear well since it prevents the "switch page direction", Please fix it asap because I don't want to use any other RSS addon
  • by Dem1se, 5 years ago
    Just too many permissions, otherwise great extension. Still works in Firefox 68 even though the screenshots look awfully old.

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    Most of the permissions are required for Brief to work, unfortunately. The ones that could be optional are bookmark access (used because items starred in Brief are the ones bookmarked in Firefox, which could be changed), notifications (feed update notifications are enabled by default), downloads access (optional for now, but will be needed to implement automatic backup). All the worst ones - access data for all sites, access tabs, store unlimited data - are the ones required for a feed reader with long-term storage of the feed entries to work in Firefox.
    If you have ideas how to make Brief work without requesting these, would be cool to hear them on the Brief's GitHub issue tracker.