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General
- What is InfoRSS?
- What does InfoRSS look like?
- How often is a feed refreshed?
- How many headlines are displayed?
- How many character per title are displayed?
- How can I know that a new version is available?
- Is InfoRSS available in foreign languages?
- If I open several windows in the browser, are they synchronized?
- Is this extension compatible with other Gecko product?
- What is an html feed?
- What is the cycling feature?
- Does infoRSS remember the read news after I close it?
- Can I hear a podcast while I’m browsing?
- What is the difference between a basic group and a playlist?
- Is there a live demo available?
- Is there any spyware or adware in the extension?
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Usage
- How do I add a new feed?
- How do I remove a feed?
- How do I select another feed?
- How can I change the background colour in the menu and in the status bar?
- How do groups work?
- How can I see more titles?
- Can I control the size of the headlines area?
- Can I set the different options of inforss?
- How can I set the scrolling mode?
- I miss one headline in the scrolling area, how can I see it quickly?
- How can I see the XML file of the RSS feed?
- What is the category filter?
- What is the quick filter?
- Can I import feeds from another RSS aggregator?
- Can I export feeds to another RSS aggregator?
- Can I easily add a feed to the current active group?
- How can I filter the headlines?
- How can I fetch news from an HTML page?
- Some feeds have a podcast feature, can I listen to them?
- Can I read the news without clicking on the headline and opening a new tab?
- What is this little browser in the option dialogue?
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Troubleshooting
- How can I report a bug?
- I dropped a new feed URL on the icon, but nothing happened. Why not?
- The application does not display the news in the status bar?
- I have a "Your property file has a old version number" error popup when I start firefox. What happened?
- I have the version 0.8.4 and everything was fine. I have upgraded to the 0.8.6 and I have some popup error (like nsIUTF8ConverterService.convertStringToUTF8 …) when I start firefox and I can’t see my feeds any more?
- Why doesn’t infoRSS save the feed that I have added?
- Sometime, I get a "repository has no properties" error. What does that mean?
- The extension slows down my browser, what can I do?
- I have set the tooltip on the headline with the "full article" option. When I move the mouse over an headline I see a mini browser, but why can’t I scroll the displayed page?
- I click on the "make current" button in the option dialogue and nothing happened. Why not?
- I’m having trouble with the repository, why does nothing nothing get saved?
- Each time I quit and restart FF, why do I see old headlines that I have already read?
- Firefox does not want to start or seems to be hang after the install of the extension?
- New version of Firefox (1.5.0.3 and upper) does not display the menu when I click on the main icon (earth)?
- Security concerns
infoRSS is a lightweight RSS reader. This extension take a minimum of space in the browser, and the news are always displayed in the status bar (or in a toolbar at the top or bottom of the screen).
infoRSS installs a small icon (looks like an earth) in the status bar. The headlines are displayed beside this icon.
By default, every 30 minutes, but this can be customized by the user. Select the feed in the infoRSS menu, right click on it (ctrl click on Mac), and then change the refresh delay for the feed, and click on Apply. You can also open the main option dialog to change the settings.
By default, 3 news headlines are displayed, but this can be customized by the user. Select the feed in the infoRSS menu, right click on it (ctrl click on Mac), and then change the number of titles to display for the feed, and click on Apply. There is also a "default value" for newly created feeds. Each time you add a new feed in infoRSS, it will be created with the default value
By default, the first 25 characters are displayed, but this can be customized by the user. Select the feed in the infoRSS menu, right click on it (ctrl click on Mac), and then change the number of characters to display for the feed, and click on Apply.
Subscribe at the RSS feed of InfoRSS (available at http://inforss.mozdev.org/inforss.xml), and add it to infoRSS. You will always see the new version… Otherwise you can consult this site (http://inforss.mozdev.org) or simply open the extension manager, select infoRSS and try to update it. The extension manager will never see the beta version.
So far, InfoRSS is available in English (en-US), Swedish (sv-SE), German (de-DE), French (fr-FR), Italian (it-IT), Albanian (sq-AL), Brazilian/portuguese (pt-BR), Dutch (nl-NL), Spanish (es-ES), Japanese (ja-JP), Bulgarian (bg-BG), Danish (da-DK), Traditional Chinese (zh-TW), Simplified Chinese (zh-CN), Czech Republic (cs-CZ), Polish (pl-PL), Russian (ru-RU), Slovenian (sl-SL), finnish (fi-FI), Hungarian (hg-HG). If you want to have it in your language, just follow the instructions in the Translations page.
Yes, when you open a new window in the browser, the known headlines from the main window are transferred in the new window. That is to say that viewed or banned headlines in the main window are considered as "viewed" or "banned" in the new window. When you click on an headline in one window, all window are synchronized and the headline bar is refreshed. When an headline is banned in one window, all open window are synchronized.
Well, sadly, no. Mozilla in their infinite wisdom dropped the status bar and then they stopped the ability to add your own toolbar. I have some hopes of getting this to work again on Thunderbird and Firefox, though if they drop xul support at the end of 2017, basically, no
A list of news from an HTML page (unlike RSS or Atom), extracted with an Regular Expression. Info on Regular Expression can be found here *
If you set this feature to on, when an feed or a group of feed is selected, after a configurable number of minutes, the next feed or group is selected and become the current feed or group.
Yes, the extension uses a local history file to store the read date, the viewed flag, and the banned flag for each headline. The local history file is inforss.rdf
Yes, simply click on the speaker icon and a new tab will open with the podcast URL.
All feeds that belong to a group are all fetched at the same time if cycling is not active, or one by one during a period of time that correspond to the cycling setting. A playlist group fetches its feeds according to the setting of the user: order and elapse for each feed.
Just select the text of the feed’s URL (in the url bar, in the browser, in a separate editor, …), then drag and drop it onto the inforss icon in the status bar. In case of success, a popup window will display the main information of the feed: title, url, description, …
Just click on the inforss icon in the status bar, a popup menu will show the list of all RSS feeds infoRSS handles. Then click on the feed you want to remove, and drag and drop it on the trash icon in the menu.
Just click on the inforss icon in the status bar, a popup menu will show the list of all RSS feeds infoRSS handles. Then click on the feed you want to see in the status bar.
Just select the extension in the list of installed extension (menu > tool > extension) and click on "option". Then, on the third page, you can choose the background colour.
Go in the option dialogue (menu - tool -extension - inforss - option), click on the "feed/group" tab, click on the "new group", type the name of the new group, and then, select your RSS with the checkbox. Then click on the "Apply" button.
Go in the option dialogue (menu - tool -extension - inforss - option), click on show title in sub-menu:on, and click on earth icon at the bottom of the screen. The menu should show you all your RSS with a sub-menu "wait for 3 seconds…". Wait for 3 seconds and all titles should be displayed. You can click on any of them to see it in a tab of your browser.
If you locate the inforss area in the status bar, you can control the size if you are in the scrolling mode by dragging the grey spot beside the inforss icon. Otherwise, you can’t.
You can use the menu > tool > extension > inforss > option menu item, or right-click (ctrl-click for Mac user) on the inforss icon to display the option dialog.
You can use the menu > tool > extension > inforss > option menu item, or right-click (ctrl-click for Mac user) on the headlines to toggle to scrolling mode.
If you hover the mouse on the headline area and your mouse device has a scroll wheel you can move it to move backward/forward the ticker. If your mouse drive support proportional speed, the faster you move the wheel, the faster the ticker moves.
Simply click on the inforss icon at the bottom of the screen, then, drag and drop an item of the menu (the title of the feed) onto the main browser window. Note: Do not do this if you have made inforss your default handler for feeds.
Some feeds are provided with a CATEGORY tag. You can filter (include or exclude) headlines based on the value of that tag. If you click on the category button, the current categories in the feed are displayed, but you can type in any categories you want.
This is a full text filter on the headline title that allow the user to quickly focus of specific headlines.
Yes, you can use the import button in the repository section of the advanced tab of the option dialogue. The format must be OPML
Yes, you can use the export button in the repository section of the advanced tab of the option dialogue. The format must be OPML
Yes, open the menu with all the feed, and drag and drop a feed onto the headline bar (which should contains the feed from the active group)
You have filters at the feed and at the group level and both can be combined. You can have as many filter as you want per feed and group. To add filter, open the option dialogue and go to the "feed/group" tab or right-click (crtl-click on mac) on the feed in the menu and select the "filter" tab. To add a filter click on the "+" button. To remove a filter, click on the "-" button in front of the filter. A filter can be active or inactive (see the checkbox in front of each filter).
Open the Option Dialogue and create a "new html feed". Type the url of the HTML page and give a name to the new feed. Then click on the "Parse HTML" button to set param for the HTML parser. You’d better know what a Reg Exp !. For the "headline", "article", … at the bottom, you must type $1 or
url: http://www.rsscache.com/Section/Stats/more/767.aspx
reg exp: <tr>[^']*'([^']*)[^>]*>([^<]*)</a>[^<]*</b>[^<]*</td>[^<]*</tr>[^<]*<tr>[^<]*<td>[^<]*<small>([^<]*)</small>[^<]*</td>[^<]*</tr>[^<]*<tr>[^<]*<td>([^<]*)
headline : $2
article : $4
published date : $3
link : $1Then, click on the "Test" button to test your Reg Exp. You can limit the parsing process to a portion of the html code with the "start" and "end" field (also Reg Exp). If you want to be helped when building your Reg Exp, locate and select the HTML code in the "source" tab, then click on the "Build" button. It will propose a good start for your Reg Exp.
Yes. If you move the mouse over the headline bar, the tooltip will open a mini browser and you will be able to hear the podcast. An appropriate audio plugin must be installed - quicktime, or other…
You can select this feature in the option dialogue. If you move the mouse over the headline bar, the tooltip will open a mini browser and you will be able to view the full article.
Create an issue on the issue page. You can keep track of it from there too.
Maybe the inforss repository is corrupted. Locate the inforss.xml file on your hard drive (in your browser profile directory) and delete it. Then restart the browser, and try to drop another URL.
Go in the option dialog (menu - tool -extension - inforss - option), click on activity:on, and click on the "Apply" button.
I have a "Your property file has a old version number" error popup when I start firefox. What happened?
There is a problem is version 0.8.4 and prior with feed using non latin alphabet. These make the main repository (inforss.xml) corrupted. When you see this popup, your old inforss.xml file is rename inforss_xml.inerror and a new default inforss.xml is generated. From there, you can readd your feeds or manually get them from the backup file. This problem is fixed in 0.8.5 version, but you still have to recreate your repository.
I have the version 0.8.4 and everything was fine. I have upgraded to the 0.8.6 and I have some popup error (like nsIUTF8ConverterService.convertStringToUTF8 …) when I start firefox and I can’t see my feeds any more?
There is a difference in the encoding of the repository between the 0.8.4 and higher. In order to fix this problem, you can open the inforss.xml file in a text editor (maybe force the encoding to ISO-8859-1), verify that the file is ok in the editor, and saved it using a "UTF-8, no BOM" encoding. This should help. If not, you can quit firefox, delete the inforss.xml file, start firefox and recreate your feed. They will be correctly encoded with the 0.8.6 version.
Sometimes, there are some trouble with the current profile of Firefox; try to create a brand new profile to see if this fix the problem
This means that something went wrong when reading the repository. The best thing to do is to go to the option dialogue, turn on all debug setting, restart FF, note all error popups and contact the author; It could be very useful to locate the inforss.xml file on the hard drive and send it to the author. You can also delete the inforss.xml file and restart firefox.
The two main reasons are . scrolling eats a lot of CPU, especially at high scolling speed. Your can turn the scrolling off. . the refresh time. If you have a lot of different feeds to monitor, all active at the same time (in a group), and all with a little refresh time, it could also eat the CPU when refreshing. Try to adjust the refresh time to a proper value. By default this value is set to 2 min. Try to avoid having all your feeds set to the same value.
I have set the tooltip on the headline with the "full article" option. When I move the mouse over an headline I see a mini browser, but why can’t I scroll the displayed page?
Even if you see a mini browser, this browser is a tooltip, so when the mouse moves out, the tooltip disappears. If you have to see to full article and scroll, just click on the headline.
You have to validate with the "apply" or "ok" button any change in the option dialogue, including the "make current" action.
It seems that the extension must be installed by the user-user himself, not an admin user on behalf the user.
You have to check if the purge delay (option dialogue) is not too small (ie. 1 day), or maybe the inforss.rdf is corrupted. In that case, just quit FF, delete the inforss.rdf file and restart FF.
Some users seems to experiment this problem. I’m not able to reproduce it, so it’s quite hard to work on it, but I was told that if you manually edit the inforss.xml file (in the profile directory of Firefox) et delete all entries except the first TAG and the last TAG (only 3 lines left), it fixes the problem. UPDATE: The version inforss 1.0.1 should fix the problem.