Minor release: NewsFox 0.7.5.1

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Minor release: NewsFox 0.7.5.1

by R Pruitt :: Rate this Message:

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Newsfox 0.7.5.1 is released.

  • Better background feed loading
  • Autosubscribe for Firefox (bug#14770)
  • Deleted articles don't reappear (bug#11773, bug#16113)
  • Check for duplicate feeds (bug#16756)
  • Progress meter added for OPML importing and group loading
  • Favicon provided for Newsfox, thanks ADR (bug#17327)
  • Minor fixes
    • Smaller about.xul and livemarksDlg.xul windows
    • Delete key will delete group or feed in feedtree (left hand) pane (bug#17241)
    • Custom names imported properly in OPML files

This version adds Newsfox as an option for subscribing to feeds in the 'Feeds' pane of the 'Options' (or 'Preferences') dialog. Firefox seems to have some problems with chrome:// links instead of http:// links for this functionality. I have had best luck using the "Show me a preview and ask me which Feed Reader to use" option and then selecting always use Newsfox the first time you try a new feed.

Two feeds with the same Feed URL are no longer allowed (with add new feed) in Newsfox. This will prevent you adding a duplicate feed. If you want two different feeds from the same Feed URL you can do the following: use "http://xkcd.com/rss.xml" and "http://xkcd.com/rss.xml?hi" for example. The portion of the web address after the ? will be ignored if it doesn't make sense to the webpage server. If there already is a question mark in the web address do the following: use "http://news.google.com/?output=atom" and "http://news.google.com/?output=atom&hi" for example.