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That's a pretty whiny feature request. I read the first few dozen comments, and I don't really know what exactly was being requested.

It's clear to me that the right approach is an extension specific to your preferred RSS reader. I understand that some browsers have an RSS reader built it, but that still doesn't make it a core feature that's going to be used by a big portion of their users.




This feature request asks for two things to be native in chromium:

1. have an indicator in the browser interface that an rss feed is available for the current page.

2. have a preview of rss feeds rather than unstyled xml. It is just a matter of adding style for some xml files the way shiira[1] first did or the way safari[2], opera[3] or firefox do.

It is clear to me that the second is nice for the user even if the chromium developpers do not intend to implement a full rss reader as it just consists in making some common web documents readable directly in the browser, it is far more logical for a web browser to display rss than to display pdf... The first point is said to distract the user and clutter the interface so I can understand why it should be an extension (firefox voluntarily suppressed this indicator a few years ago).

[1]: http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/reviews/large/shi... [2]: http://media.arstechnica.com/images/tiger/safari-rss-big.jpg [3]: http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/wind...




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