feeds

SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
edited August 15, 2006 in SmugMug Support
the help for feeds makes it sound like clicking the logo for a feed will create a bookmark to that feed in Firefox and *bang*, i'm done.

unfortunately, this is not so.

i'm using Firefox 1.5.0.6 for OS X, and clicking the logo for a feed does nothing that i can see besides display a page full of HTMLy-looking code.

Control-clicking the logo and choosing "Bookmark this link" creates a bookmark that, when clicked, displays a page full of HTMLy-looking code.

i don't think this is how feeds are supposed to work.

anybody know what's wrong here?

thanks...

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  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited August 15, 2006
    It is true, firefox isn't the best at dealing with feeds...

    Unless you have an extension. Try something like sage perhaps.
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  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited August 15, 2006
    Oh an wave.gif Hi welcome to dgrin :D Sorry, I didn't see that was your first post...
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited August 15, 2006
    Mike Lane wrote:
    Oh an wave.gif Hi welcome to dgrin :D Sorry, I didn't see that was your first post...

    heehee...thanks. :D i've actually been lurking on and off for a bit...

    i appreciate the tip for the feed reader too - i've run the installerizer thingy and now just have to restart Firefox and see what happens... *crossing fingers*
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited August 15, 2006
    no joy. Firefox behaves the same way with sage installed as without.

    *sigh*

    not that i've ever been a fan of feeds anyway...but i did think it might be nice to be able to subscribe to my friends' galleries.
  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited August 15, 2006
    Sage doesn't look like this for you? headscratch.gif
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited August 15, 2006
    well, i suppose it may...but then what i'm seeing when i click a feed link on smugmug isn't sage. this is what i see when i click a feed link:

    88419134-M.jpg
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 15, 2006
    Try it in Safari, one of the things Safari does really well is Feeds :D
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  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited August 15, 2006
    plaintiger wrote:
    well, i suppose it may...but then what i'm seeing when i click a feed link on smugmug isn't sage. this is what i see when i click a feed link:

    88419134-M.jpg

    Hit option-s to open up sage and then subscribe to the feed. Then view the feed using sage and you'll be all set.
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited August 15, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    Try it in Safari, one of the things Safari does really well is Feeds :D

    agreed. oh, will there *never* be one web browser that does *everything* well that a web browser's supposed to do???

    frankly i'm not crazy about Firefox either. it just seems the least of all the evils out there...

    *more sighage*
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited August 15, 2006
    Mike Lane wrote:
    Hit option-s to open up sage and then subscribe to the feed. Then view the feed using sage and you'll be all set.

    hitting Option-s doesn't do anything. maybe sage isn't installed after all?
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited August 15, 2006
    oh, now wait: i just hit option-s again and this time it opened a sidebar full of my bookmarks.

    what does that have to do with subscribing to a feed though?
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