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I'm not sure how many people actually used the feature, but regular-Firefox just nuked the Live Bookmarks feed aggregation thing and left me without my main feed reader. Does anyone have recommendations for a separate feed reader software? I'm looking for:

- lightweight enough to leave open in the background on my eight-year-old craptop (VLC playing mp3s is probably a decent benchmark)

- actively maintained and updated, with no present reason to be concerned about maintenance being dropped

- functional on 64-bit Windows 7 Professional, Service Pack 1

(I'm eyeing Claws Mail - claws-mail.org/ - but I never heard of it before today, so I'm hesitating.)

Claws Mail - The user-friendly, lightweight, and fast e-mail client

www.claws-mail.org

looking at Mozilla's suggested feed-subscription addons (-)

*checks through the feed subscription addons for Firefox on the list of reader addons that Mozilla recommended*

in the reviews for Feedbro:
- developer castigating someone for posting a low-star review citing a bug as the reason for the low rating
- "The one big annoyance with this extension is that it ignores articles from the 'future', even if it's just a timezone difference."

in the reviews of Livemarks:
- "Whenever it does the check for the feeds (I have about 50), it slows down the whole system to a crawl, using several GB of RAM to the point of disk thrashing for all the swapping and maxing out all CPU cores."

...guess that rules out the easy options. 😕

RSS reader for Windows wanted

@packbat A vague thought: might be worth sniffing around for a Firefox fork that's maintaining the RSS functionality - I can't imagine you're alone in wishing they'd kept it in place.

Their official stance suggested using an RSS extension, if that'd be acceptable.

(I'm primarily on macOS, so can't directly help - Vienna's a Mac-only project)

re: RSS reader for Windows wanted

@porsupah I can definitely look for extensions. I don't want to mess around with switching to a fork unless I feel confident in it being well maintained, and I haven't been watching the Firefox fork community enough to know which forks are.

(Glad you have a good reader!)

re: RSS reader for Windows wanted

@packbat Ah, good point on a port being maintained.

I suppose I can see the reasoning in dropping RSS, and focusing on the core, but then again, does its RSS code really need much maintenance at this point? Ah well. Maybe they can be persuaded to reinstate it.

re: RSS reader for Windows wanted

@porsupah I assume the issue is implementing HTML rendering of the feed data in a way which isn't prone to browser vulnerabilities. That's another reason why I'm eyeing standalone feed readers - if it's not a browser, it might choose to not bother with that and just show a plaintext preview plus link. Lot less security risks in doing that.

@packbat if you have the ability to host PHP I recommend FeedOnFeeds. You can also run it locally without too much effort (which is how I develop it). The main site is laughably out of date but my fork is at github.com/fluffy-critter/Feed

fluffy-critter/Feed-on-Feedsgithub.com