06 Dec, 2006

Published at 03:40AM

Tagged with rss, browsers, extensions, google, and firefox

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Google Reader Firefox extension

To receive a notification every time any one of my feeds are updated would be extreme. But at the same time, navigating to the Google Reader tab and clicking refresh get’s old (I’m not sure how frequent it refreshes itself, so I always click refresh). The perfect solution: Google Reader Firefox extension. It shows the little blue RSS icon from Google Reader with a count of the total feeds down in the right-hand corner of the browser. It’s very subtle, but exactly what I need. It auto-updates every 120 seconds, too (and you can change that). It also has a respectable amount of options, all of which add to its usefullness. The best part is when you hover over it, you’ll see the count broken down into your categories (but only if that category of feeds has been updated — see below for a screenshot). It’s a pretty handy extension. At least to me it is.

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Ryan Wednesday, 06 Dec, 2006 Posted at 09:55AM

Hmm…. Google Reader notifier. I don’t know for sure, but “notifier” seems like the exact thing I don’t want. I’ll just stick with the Firefox extension for now. If someone has reason to believe the notifier is better, please let me know why.

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