How to find RSS links fast in a site
Are you also having trouble looking for rss links in some websites? Well, I did and not just once or twice but a couple of times! It really annoys me when I find a good blogs but doesn’t provide that little useful link in making me stick in their site. Sometimes they are just plainly playing hard-to-get and I won’t bother searching. Luckily I found a really good tip that made me love firefox even more!
Using firefox 3, you will see at the right side of your URL box a star and a rss image if it finds any link. It looks something like this:
Just click on that orange image and it will ask you to subscribe to that feed. It will automatically detect the RSS feed for you. I found this in this article which was written in 2005! Wow! It’s been here for quite a long time! So maybe this works in other firefox versions or other browsers, I just do not know how. You might want to check for your aggregator settings.
neri on January 6th, 2009
yup, it’s been there all the while, but we don’t notice it. for me, i already access google reader then add it up because it also searches for the feed automatically. however there are still good sites (and they’ve been there in a pretty long time) that don’t still have rss feeds! watda…