RSS Live Links

With RSS Live Links you will enjoy Firefox-style RSS live bookmarks in Google Chrome.

For those who like Firefox "Live Bookmarks", this is a browser extension that provides a similar capability - i.e. you can read your feeds' headlines directly from a menu-style pop-up without having to go to the home page or a specialized reader.

RSS Live Links can be registered as an RSS reader with the "RSS Subscriptions" and "RSS Subscriptions Plus" extensions.

Alternatively, use the built-in feed detection facility to subscribe to feeds found in current tabs.

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Features:

• Automatic visual notification of updates to subscribed feeds.
• Menu-style pop-up list of subscribed feeds, with visual distinction between new, unread, and read feeds.
• Click on a feed to see a list of its items, with visual distinction between new, unread, and read items.
• Configurable "visual distinction" options for each "seen-state".
• "Seen-state" is saved across browser sessions (see known issues below).
• Support for "Real" Live Bookmarks (i.e. a real bookmark folder for each feed with regularly updated contents).

What is new in this release:

• Better tootips for items, performance-related mods

What is new in version 0.9.34:

• A choice of more appropriate sounds than the original > "boing"!

What is new in version 0.9.31:

• Added more refined font styling options, along with configurable data request timeout and "Time-to-live" at the global and feed-specific levels. Also fixed feed error update issues and added a "sound notification disable" action to the pop-up

What is new in version 0.9.28:

• Fixed the non-clearing "Loading..." message problem
• Renamed "More Stories" to "Feed Home" - more accurate label
• Changed the RSS Live Links button notification badge to be the number of feeds with unseen items
• Added optional animation of the RSS Live Links button on notification of updates
• Added optional sound notification of updates - with a very annoying default sound!
• Added rudimentary import/export facility to the options page
• Added "next" and "previous" buttons to the "hide-on-open" view for eaiser navigation (with a "Shift" option to go to the next/previous unseen feed)

What is new in version 0.9.24:

• Fixed duplicate URLs in detected feeds lists.
• Fixed display problems when two feeds have the same name (which is allowed).
• Pop-up display improvements (especially when two scroll bars are displayed).
• Help icon replaced with a slightly smaller one.
• Provide suggested name when a feed is subscribed to via one of the RSS Subscriptions extensions.
• Added refresh options button to options page.
• Added logo to RSS Subscriptions extensions hook page.

Requirements:

• Google Chrome

Limitations:

• "Real" live bookmarks have certain behavioral restrictions due to the nature of the Chrome extension bookmarks API. See the help file for details.
• "Real" live bookmarks currently have an update problem - old items are not being deleted. I am investigating.
• Note, this is a "browser" extension, not a "page" extension. Therefore it CANNOT place an icon IN the title bar (e.g. for available feeds).