Crazy Workarounds and Extensions
“Bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com and the “Tabbrowser Extension for Firefox”:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en don’t like each other very much. You can click on folders in Bloglines and get the posts, but not on individual feeds. Whilst annoying, this hasn’t been too much of an issue until after I’d been on holiday. My link lists folder had nearly 2000 unread posts and I couldn’t read them all in one sitting.
“IE view”:http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=35&vid=156 and “the great”:http://philringnalda.com/blog/2004/08/getting_back_out_of_ie.php “Firefox View”:http://www.iosart.com/firefox/firefoxview/ to the rescue. From bloglines, I enter Internet Explorer. I can click on individual feeds and pick them off one by one. If a page interests me, I can click Firefox View and it opens as a new tab in the background in Firefox. Kludgey but magic. And isn’t IE annoying to use after being with Firefox?
September 8th, 2004 at 16:50
Huh? I don’t have any trouble reading an individual feed’s posts using Bloglines and Firefox. What doesn’t work?
September 8th, 2004 at 17:05
Specifically Firefox with the Tabbrowser Extension. It may have to be configured in a particular way. I have it so that clicking on a any link that refers to another site will open a new tab in the background.
September 23rd, 2004 at 13:34
[...] se has a real polished, this is ready for the big time, feel about it. Apart from fixing my little bloglines/tabbrowser issue the latest release has small but important enhancements s [...]
September 24th, 2004 at 11:58
I tried this fix - http://kalsey.com/2004/07/bloglines_and_firefox_fix/ - and now I get
Bloglines thru Firefox without any problems!
September 28th, 2004 at 10:49
Gah, I wish I’d seen that before. Anyway, it appears to be fixed with Firefox 1 PR so all sorted out.
October 7th, 2004 at 15:41
Of course, ironically, now I’ve upgraded to Firefox 1 PR, it doesn’t work at all.