Sneak is a firm fan of the excellent Mozilla Firefox browser, and is also a staunch supporter of RSS feeds. So naturally Sneak was delighted when the Firefox 1.0 Preview Release included a new Live Bookmarks feature that turns the humble Bookmarks menu into a powerful RSS aggregator. When a Firefox user browses a page that offers a suitable feed, an orange RSS button appears - as if by magic - at the bottom of the browser window. Clicking on it brings up the option to subscribe. Firefox users should, in fact, see just such a button at the foot of Sneak's home on the web. Sneak can't wait for the fully-fledged Firefox 1.0 to arrive and went, therefore, to subscribe to the Mozilla announcements RSS feed. Just one slight technical hitch. The feed is there, but it doesn't actually seem to quite mesh with Firefox's RSS features. So no orange button. So, erm, that's that idea knackered then.

25 Oct 2004