RSS feeds are a great way to keep up to date with your favourite blogs and websites without having to visit the sites every day. In Firefox you can subscribe to RSS feeds from your favourite sites without having to use additional software. In this tutorial I will show you how to subscribe to an RSS feed in Firefox 3.
The first thing that you need to be aware of when using Firefox is knowing when a website has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to. In Firefox 3 this is simple. In the main address bar at the top of the screen, to the right hand side in the address bar you will notice a small RSS icon. Click this icon to view the pages feed. Sometimes a site will have more than one type of feed (for example atom and RSS), so here you can choose which to use.
The feed for that page is displayed on the page, which in Firefox will be a list of page titles and a small excerpt of what each pages content is. At the top of the screen you have the option to choose which program you want to use in order to subscribe to that feed. Make sure that the selection box says “Live Bookmarks” and you can then press the subscribe button. Firefox 3 will then ask you where you want to store the feed. You can either store this in your bookmarks toolbar or in the bookmarks menu. Select where it is to be stored and press OK.
Thats it. Go to that feeds bookmark that you have just created and then you will see a list of all the articles or updates from that feed, which keeps you up to date when there has been a new article written. Really easy and very very handy.
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