October 23rd, 2006
by NathanHow to make Newshutch the default feed reader in Firefox 2.0
Two helpful Newshutch users emailed about this today. The only bug I see is that it breaks the “Go back to the original page” link on the subscribe confirmation page.
Alex Muntean sent me JavaScript that will automatically set up Newshutch as the default Firefox reader, so that when you click on the RSS icon in the URL bar Firefox will submit a subscription request to Newshutch.
The script in action: Click to automatically set up Newshutch in Firefox 2.0.
User Nogg3r5 posted the way to do it by hand on his blog.
Thanks Alex and Nogg3r5!
October 24th, 2006 at 12:19 am
Thanks for the link. I hope everyone finds the tutorial useful!
October 24th, 2006 at 8:48 am
Wow, thanks for this, it’s very useful!
October 24th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Awesome! Added to my Firefox tips site.
http://www.techlifeweb.com/firefox/firefox_tips.html
October 24th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Oh I have been looking for ways to do this since the first Firefox 2 release candidate came out!
But it does not work with the Firefox rl1 that comes bundled with Ubuntu 6.10 rl1.
Too bad… I am just unable to select the new feed source in the feed list in the preference window.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Sweet! Thanks guys!
October 25th, 2006 at 11:16 am
Wow, I just posted this to the forum in two places before reading the blog. I’m an idiot.
But it would still be helpful to provide this link on the front page along with the toolbar button, rather than buried here.
October 25th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Zoom, it will be on the front page in the next release.
October 27th, 2006 at 2:53 am
It works very well. Thanks all. It’s one bookmarklet less on my bookmarks bar
October 28th, 2006 at 10:32 am
It does not work with either the Ubuntu Linux nor Mac OS X versions of Firefox 2. It worked just fine with the Windows XP version.
I should be able to select Newshutch from the preference’s list of available services after enabling it, right?
October 28th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
Hm it works well in Firefox 2.0 Macos X for me. For the records, I used Nogg3r5’s method. Yes once you’ve added the entries in the about:config you should be able to see Newshutch in the feeds preferences.
October 29th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Aleks, it worked on Firefox 2 on Mac and PC for me. What happens for you?
October 30th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
I can confirm that it works in the Ubuntu. I am using the standard version, out of the Edgy repositories.
I also see no reason why it would work differently in any operating system. This is an internal Firefox setting, controlled by about:config.