Firefox 1.0 preview and RSS–yippee!
It looks like the Mozilla foundation is really taking steps to integrate RSS into its products.
From an eWeek article:
With the Firefox 1.0 preview, Mozilla also has targeted some of the new features at everyday users. The new RSS reader, called Live Bookmarks, is focused on helping users discover and subscribe to RSS feeds as they browse the Web.
Dotzler said Live Bookmarks is a simplified newsreader more focused on occasional or new users of feeds. It automatically discovers feeds in both RSS and the Atom formats, displaying an “RSS” icon in the browser’s status bar. By clicking on the icon, users can subscribe to a feed and track it from Firefox’s bookmarks.
Extensions to Firefox, including one called Sage, already provided RSS aggregation for Firefox, but Live Bookmarks is the first time Mozilla has integrated an RSS newsreader into the browser.
And this MozillaZine article mentions RSS support in Thunderbird 0.8:
In addition, this release sees the debut of Thunderbird’s support for RSS and Atom feeds. Users can set up an RSS News & Blogs account (from File > New > Account…) and then subscribe to feeds from their favourite news sites and weblogs. Each feed appears as a folder with each individual item appearing as a message.
