RSS is a standard in family with XML mostly used by news sites and weblogs. It allows to collect data from the site and then present it by some software to the user .

I'm a happy user of the RSS Reader Panel. It allows me quickly to check if there is any news on the sites I am following. There are also some other software options instead of the RSS Panel Reader. Some are used together with a mail client and there are also stand alone RSS Reader Programs. You can even subscribe to some feeds on a website without any software installed. But I like it the way the RSS extension is integrated to the browser.

Here's a screenshot how it looks on my system.

You can download the RSS Reader Panel here: http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#rssreaderpanel After the install remember to close your Firefox and then open it again.

Create a folder in your bookmarks to store your RSS feeds. You can go to Tools -> Manage Bookmarks to do this. Give the folder a name like RSS feeds or RSS folder.

Click on View -> Sidebar -> RSS-Reader ( or Alt +R) to get your RSS Reader up.
Now you should see your RSS Reader Panel.
Go to to Tools -> Settings in the RSS Reader and tell the extension where your new RSS folder is.

Now it's time to add some feeds. Notice the RSS feed l have on my blog (look at my links section). You can drag and drop it to your RSS extension in the sidebar. You can also click on the RSS feed and then bookmark the site to your new RSS Folder that you have created.

Here are some other Mozilla related RSS feeds

Mozillazine Mozilla news
The Burning Edge Jesse Ruderman about Nightly Firefox builds
Official Firefox nightly build thread edit: New URL

There are a lot of other Mozilla blogs. I will show another smart way to access them later on my blog

Here are some other sites in English I visit

Computer
The Inquirer
The Register
X-Bit Labs
Neowin.net

Bink.nu
Anandtech news
Betanews
Ars Technica

News
Christian Science Monitor | World
The Economist

Comics
Calvin and Hobbes
Dilbert

One thing I need to mention is that the RSS Reader Panel is somewhat broken when using the nightly test builds. The Extension can't remember which sites you have visited in the headlines. This is not a problem in the Firefox 0.8 milestone. I reported about the problem in the 20th March build http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=63087 where I applied this Photo to explain the problem. Let's hope the problem is solved when Mozilla Firefox 0.9 is released.

I will in 2 days write some small tips to this extension.

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