![]() ![]() ![]() Firstly, Firefox is an open-source project, so forks of the browser will be able to continue to support RSS feeds natively. NetVibes).”įor those of you who still use Firefox (all 11% of you as of last month), maybe you’re now wondering what alternatives you can use. Furthermore, the usage of feeds outside of Firefox doesn’t justify it, either – RSS/Atom has been slowly losing popularity, and various tools and companies have dropped support years ago (Apple Mail, Google Reader, …), stopped existing if they were focused on feeds (e.g. Usage data from Firefox shows that 99.9% of our users don’t actually use either the feed viewer or live bookmarks. Making these features as well-tested, modern and secure as the rest of Firefox would have cost significant time and effort, and the usage of these features doesn’t justify such an investment. “These features had an outsized maintenance and security impact relative to their usage. In a blog post on the issue, Mozilla says that the decision wasn’t taken lightly: Google Reader shut down a few years ago, Apple News went off to do its own thing, and now Firefox’s RSS feeds will go the way of the dodo too.Īccording to Mozilla’s Bugtracker, three days ago key members of the browser’s development team made the decision to remove the ability to support RSS Feeds and Live Bookmarks. Firefox has natively supported RSS feeds for many years, but we’ve all noticed how these kinds of services are dying out. For Firefox, one of those things is the built-in RSS reader, something that I and many others use every day. Change is difficult, especially if you’re changing features and functionality, and cutting out things which don’t make sense anymore. As the internet matures and changes, we tend to leave old things behind that don’t make sense anymore.
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